The Travellers
Prisse d'Avennes
Written by Mary Norton He was, in many ways, a paradox. An artist of consummate skill, he was also a writer, scientist, scholar, engineer and linguist, a genius who
3440 words, written July 28 2005,
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Bernardino Drovetti
Bernardino Drovetti is best known as Napoleon’s Proconsul in Egypt. He should not be seen in Napoleon’s shadow; however, as there is much more to the man than that. Drovetti
3033 words, written April 7 2005,
in the early evening
Carlo Vidua
Carlo Vidua, the Count of Conzano, was born in 1785, in Casale Monferrato, to Count Pio Gerolamo and Marianna Gambera. But while his family circumstances were comfortable, his infancy
2416 words, written April 1 2005,
in the early morning
David Roberts
David Roberts was born on October 24, 1796 at Stockbridge, Edinburgh in Scotland. He exhibited immense artistic talents as a child through his excellent sketches of Scottish monuments and castles.
1507 words, written February 22 2005,
in the early evening
Edward Daniel Clarke
by Peta Rée “In order to do something everywhere, it was necessary to rest nowhere1.” One might suppose this the exhortation of a modern package tour operator – in fact,
5834 words, written February 3 2005,
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John Gardner Wilkinson
The exotic land of Egypt has long intrigued the inquisitive mind and no wonders many travelers have made voyages to this African country to explore its appealing antiquity. Egypt
2844 words, written February 1 2005,
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Ippolito Rosellini
by Fabrizio Calzia The birth of a man of learning Ippolito Rosellini, the future father of Italian Egyptology, was born in Pisa on 13 August 1800 to a family of
2271 words, written January 17 2005,
in the evening
William John Bankes
by Misty Cryer British politician, traveler, collector, antiquarian, archaeologist, amateur architect, discoverer, translator… William John Bankes is the man – a pioneer in Egyptology and Archaeology before such studies were
3031 words, written October 20 2004,
in the early morning
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