![]() ![]() ![]() He also identified the ruins of Berenice on the Red Sea. He was the first to penetrate the second pyramid of Giza, and the first European in modern times to visit the oasis of Bahariya. He expanded his investigations to the great temple of Edfu, visited Elephantine and Philae, cleared the great temple at Abu Simbel of sand (1817), made excavations at Karnak, and opened up the sepulcher of Seti I (still sometimes known as " Belzoni's Tomb"). ![]() He removed with great skill the colossal bust of Ramesses II, commonly called "the Young Memnon" later shipped to England. Sometimes known as The Great Belzoni, was a prolific Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778-1823, Italian).A treasure hunter is a person who, as either a vocation or avocation, searches for sunken, buried, lost, or hidden treasure and other artifacts. ![]()
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