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Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778–1823). View of the Interior of the Temple at Ybsombul in Nubia Opened by G. Belzoni, 1818. Etched by A. Aglio after a drawing by G. Belzoni. Plate 43 from Plates illustrative of the researches and operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia issued as accompanying atlas to the Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs and excavations in Egypt and Nubia (London: J. Murray, 1820). Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives
Giovanni Belzoni was an engineer, amateur archaeologist, and explorer commissioned by British Consul General Henry Salt to bring antiquities to England. He was known to be the first European to enter tombs and temples such as the Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel. In 1819, he returned to England and prepared this publication, which was received with great popular interest.
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