Giovanni Battista Caviglia [SEP] place of birth
Giovanni Battista Caviglia
Giovanni Battista Caviglia (1770 in Genoa – September 7, 1845 in Paris) was an explorer, navigator and Italian Egyptologist. He was one of the pioneers of Egyptian archeology of his time. He was influential in the excavation of the Sphinx of Giza near Cairo.
He was born in Genoa in 1770 at a time when the city was the capital of the Republic of Genoa. He spent most of his life sailing in the Mediterranean in which he became a merchant captain.
When he decided
Mississippi River to the Falls of Saint Anthony.
Excavations.
- June - The Stupa Excavation is begun.
- October - The KV16 burial site of Ramesses I in the East Valley of the Kings is discovered and excavated by Giovanni Battista Belzoni.
- Near Cairo, the Great Sphinx of Giza is excavated to chest level by Giovanni Battista Caviglia.
- Giovanni Battista Belzoni clears the Great Temple of Abu Simbel of sand.
- The tophet in Carthage is first excavated; since then, hundreds of urns