FREE LECTURE ON GIOVANNI BATTISTA BELZONI IN TORONTO, Canada

FREE LECTURE ON GIOVANNI BATTISTA BELZONI IN TORONTO, Canada

THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES PUBLIC LECTURE
SERIES
presents a lecture on GIOVANNI BATTISTA BELZONI: HIS LIFE AND TIMES,
by SSEA Trustee Patrick Carstens. Giovanni Belzoni was one of the
first men to explore
the monuments of ancient Egypt and may be credited with a number of
unusual achievements, including leading the first incursions in
centuries into the
Giza pyramids and the temple of Abu Simbel.  A contemporary of
Napoleon, he fled the invasion of his home country and eventually made
his way to Egypt
where he conducted an antiquities collecting mission for Sir Henry
Salt. Explorer proved a more enduring occupation than his previous
jobs as circus strongman and hydraulic engineer, but eventually led to
his premature death.  Patrick Carstens has taken hundreds of slides in
preparation for this lecture and will be showing us some of the very
best. He has worked at the sites of Mendes in the delta and Tell
Kedwah in the Northern Sinai, under the directorship of Donald
Redford. And at Tell Tebilla in the Delta and Markah
plain, Sinai Peninsula under the directorship of Dr. Gregory Mumford.
He has also participated in a magnetometer surveys with Dr. Larry
Pavlish under the
direcorship of Dr. Kent Weeks of The Theban Mapping Project.  The
lecture will take place Dec. 4th 2003 at 8pm in Rm. 108 of the Koffler
Institute of Pharmacy
Management Bldg, 569 Spadina, on the downtown campus of the University
of Toronto.  Admission free and open to all.  For more information see
http://www.geocities.com/ssea.geo