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After a career as a circus strongman, Belzoni amazed the world with the Egyptian treasures he unearthed.

Giovanni Belzoni, the 19th-century explorer and Egyptian archaeologist, started out on his adventures as a circus strongman.

Built around 1244 BC, the temples at Abu Simbel have become one of the most recognizable and important sites in Egypt.

When the Priests of Amen hid the mummies of their pharaohs from tomb robbers in the 20th Dynasty, they did the job so well the tombs remained hidden until the 1800s.

For 3000 years the temples of Abu Simbel sat on its ancient site, but when the building of a dam that would flood the site was propsed, achaeologists rushed to save them.

Lane's "Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians" was published the year before Victoria became Queen and has been continuously in print ever since.

Egyptian tombs were built to foil tomb robbers, but it seldom worked. When the priests of Amen finally did hide their Pharaohs, they remained lost until the 19th century.