Bedouins Camp

Category

Library Item

Item no

31069

Title

Bedouins Camp

Artist / maker

Aglio, A.

Date

1820

Size

23.0 x 54.5 cm

Type

Lithograph

Location

Reference Library

Giovanni Battista Belzoni was an Italian explorer and archaeologist, born in Padua (Padova). In 1803 he was working in England as a circus strong man, and exhibiting models of hydraulic engines. In 1815 he went to Cairo to try and sell his hydraulic engines to Muhammad 'Ali Pasha, and within two years had begun a new career, excavating Egyptian tombs and temples.

The Bedouin are part of a predominantly desert-dwelling Arabian ethnic group traditionally divided into tribes.

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Homes > Residential buildings > Desert dwellings

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