Giovanni Battista Belzoni

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Belzoni, oil painting by W. Brockedon; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

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Xi'an clay terracota soldiers, China. Terracotta Army inside the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, 3rd century BCE.

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Sunset over the Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt.

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An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.

11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

Olduvai Gorge or Olduwai Gorge, Tanzania, Africa (eastern Serengeti Plain) Where fossil remains of more than 60 hominins provides the most continuous known record of human evolution. Mary Leakey and Louis Leakey made discoveries here. Archaeology

7 Amazing Historical Sites in Africa

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What’s Inside the Great Pyramid?

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Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.

12 Greek Gods and Goddesses

The Jeff Koons tulips sculputure outside the Guggenheim Museums in Bilbao, Spain, Basque Country.

What’s the Difference Between Modern and Contemporary Art?

Town of Sisimiut located on the coast of the Davis Strait on Kangerluarsunnguaq Bay, Greenland

The Largest Islands in the World

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Demystified - Do Lemmings Really Commit Mass Suicide? illustration

Do Lemmings Really Commit Mass Suicide?

A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

The Battle of New Orleans, by E. Percy Moran, c. 1910. Andrew Jackson, War of 1812.

26 Decade-Defining Events in U.S. History

Giovanni Battista Belzoni: References & Edit History

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Feb 16, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Nov 29, 2023
	Anniversary information added.		Nov 01, 2023
	Added/Edited contact info: Age of the Sage - Transmitting the Wisdoms of the Ages - Biography of Giovanni Belzoni.	Satyavrat Nirala	Jan 29, 2015
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998