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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
Mosque at Lucknow par L. Hill
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Henry Salt, the artist, traveler, and diplomat, is best known today in the field of Egyptology. During an appointment as British consul-general in Alexandria in 1815, he accumulated a collection of important Egyptian antiquities, notably the head of Ramesses II, which he presented to the British Museum, and the sarcophagus of Ramesses III, which was bought by the Louvre. He also sponsored the excavations of Thebes and Abu Simbel, carrying out significant archaeological research himself at (showing 500 of 1520 characters). |
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