Giovanni Belzoni
![Giovanni Battista Belzoni<ref>from his publication ''[https://archive.org/details/narrativeofopera00belz/page/n10 Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia]'', London, 1820.</ref>](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/G._Belzoni_Esq.r_%28BM_1860%2C1013.3%29.jpg)
Giovanni Battista Belzoni (; 5 November 1778 – 3 December 1823), sometimes known as The Great Belzoni, was a prolific Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. He is known for his removal to England of the seven-tonne bust of Ramesses II, the clearing of sand from the entrance of the great temple at Abu Simbel, the discovery and documentation of the tomb of Seti I (still sometimes known as "Belzoni's Tomb"), including the sarcophagus of Seti I, and the first to penetrate into the Pyramid of Khafre, the second pyramid of the Giza complex.
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