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Programme 1: Belzoni Strong Man on the Nile
Programme Outline
In this episode we discover that Giovanni Belzoni travelled to London from his native Italy in search of adventure. He met his wife, Sarah and together they fulfilled his ambition to travel to Egypt to aid the Egyptian farmers with ideas for improved irrigation. Belzoni’s engineering ideas were seen as a threat but their fortunes turned when they happened upon the Swiss Egyptologist, Mr Burckhardt.
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