Giovanni Battista Belzoni - A Real Life Indiana Jones
The protagonist of today’s story discovered ancient tombs, explored secret passages inside pyramids and recovered artefacts as old as time - while getting into fistfights, foiling assassination attempts with his trusty whip, dodging bullets amongst Egyptian ruins and facing the opposition of a French rival. →Subscribe for new videos four times per week. https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Visit our companion website for more: http://biographics.org Credits: Host - Simon Whistler Author - Arnaldo Teodorani Producer - Jennifer Da Silva Executive Producer - Shell Harris Business inquiries to biographics.email@gmail.com Other Biographics Videos: Eleanor Roosevelt - The First Lady to the World https://youtu.be/MpI6In4fmeo Adolf Hitler - The Rise of a Fanatical Führer https://youtu.be/m1vXAPxPmL8 Source/Further reading: G.B. Belzoni, Encyclopaedia Britannica The Story of Giovanni Belzoni by W[illiam] H[enry] Wills, [?] Hoare, Household Words, Volume II, Magazine No. 49, 1 March 1851, Pages: 548-552 Interview with Archaeologist Gabriele Rossi Ormida, Vatican Radio ‘Il Canto Oscuro’ Historical Blog ‘One of the most remarkable men in the entire history of archaeology. Leicester University Blog Muhammad Ali Pasha, Encyclopaedia Britannica The Great Belzoni: The Last Tomb Raider Of Ancient Egypt. BBC One Documentary Lecture with archaeologist Laura Donatelli, Academy of Sciences, Turin Giovanni Belzoni Circus Giant and Collector of Egyptian Antiquities The Great Pyramid of Khafre at Giza NHS Direct - Dysentery Belzoni: The Giant Archaeologists Love to Hate Filmsite Movie Review: Raiders of the Lost Ark
