by Alberto Siliotti · Optima · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495300447
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«El descubrimiento del Antiguo Egipto» is the historical essay by Alberto Siliotti, published by Optima in paperback (290 pages, in Spanish).
It traces the history of the exploration of Egypt from the Greco-Roman period to the 19th century. Siliotti explains how travelers, scholars and early archaeologists rediscovered the country's monuments and culture, and places these findings in their context. A popular work on the origins of Egyptology.
Published in 1998, the work falls within the categories of History and Art and Culture.
For readers interested in the history of Egypt, archaeology and the culture of the ancient world.
Alberto Siliotti is a scientific journalist, writer and photographer. For more than 20 years, he studied history, archeology and the natural environment of Egypt, where he started to work in 1988 as the director of the Horus mission, led by the Italian ministry of foreign affairs who wanted to relate the itineraries of the Italian travelers of the 19th century – especially Giovanni Battista Belzoni who discovered the entry of Chepren pyramid and Sethi I tomb in the king valley. He has made for the British Museum, a scholarly edition of Belzoni's travels, among plenty of objects recovered in Egypt are part of the museum collections.
