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Alessandro Ricci in Egypt and Sudan
Ancient Egyptian history
Ancient ruins exploration
Archaeological expeditions
Archaeology and Ancient Egypt
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Botanical discoveries
by an Italian physician on Egypt and Sudan
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Conquest of Sudan
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Cultural observations
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Ethnographical studies
Expeditionary medicine
From Siena to Nubia
Geological remarks
Historical accounts
Historical figures
HISTORY Africa North
HISTORY Ancient Egypt
HISTORY Expeditions & Discoveries
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Nineteenth-century exploration
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The first publication in any language of a rich 19th-century travel account
Travel literature
Travelogues
Upper Egypt expedition
with stunning drawings
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- ISBN 9789774168543
- Weight: 2426g
- Dimensions: 200 x 280mm
- Publication Date: 10 Nov 2018
- Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
- Publication City/Country: EG
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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A medical practitioner and talented draftsman, Alessandro Ricci was born in Siena, Italy, at the end of the eighteenth century. He traveled extensively throughout Egypt and Sudan between 1817 and 1822. During his stay, he worked as an epigraphist for Giovanni B. Belzoni in the tomb of Seti I and later entered into the service of British consul general Henry Salt and English explorer William John Bankes, on whose behalf he visited and documented Siwa (1820), Sinai (1820), and Nubia (1818–19 and 1821–22). Ricci also became the physician to Ibrahim Pasha and achieved fame for daringly saving his life during the military campaign that led to Egypt’s conquest of Sudan in 1821–22. Upon his return to Italy, Ricci wrote a long account of all his journeys and reworked a series of ninety plates into striking form, yet failed to publish either.
In 2009, Daniele Salvoldi identified a complete typewritten copy of Ricci’s Travels in the National Archives of Egypt in Cairo. Drawings intended to accompany the text as plates were tracked down in different locations in Italy and the United Kingdom. From Siena to Nubia is the English-translated critical edition, with notes and introductory chapters, of Ricci’s travel account, which provides detailed information about the countries he visited, including descriptions of ancient ruins and social customs, botanical and geological remarks, and historical and ethnographical observations. It adds to the recent, growing corpus of exploration literature on nineteenth-century Egypt as well as bringing to light obscure sources important to the early history of Egyptology.
Daniele Salvoldi holds a PhD in Egyptology from the University of Pisa and currently teaches history of architecture at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport in Alexandria, Egypt. In 2011, he catalogued the William J. Bankes Egyptological drawings in Dorchester and in 2014–16 he was postdoctoral fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin.
