the Kingdom of Benin, but was seized with dysentery at a village called Gwato (now Ughoton), and died there. According to the celebrated traveller Richard Francis Burton he was murdered and robbed. In 1829 his widow published his drawings of the royal tombs at Thebes. Commemoration A medal depicting a profile of Belzoni created by William Brockedon was cast in 1821 by Sir Edward Thomason. Belzoni’s friend Sir Francis Ronalds had introduced artist and subject. Years later, in 1859 in Padua, Ronalds advised sculptor Rinaldo Rinaldi on the large medallion he was creating to commemorate Belzoni in his hometown. Belzoni was portrayed by Matthew Kelly in the 2005 BBC docudrama Egypt. Alberto Siliotti completed a unique scholarly edition of his travel writing, and it was subject of the Horus expedition in 1988. Horace Smith, a poet in the circle of Percy Bysshe Shelley, wrote " Address to the Mummy in Belzoni's Exhibition." See also List of megalithic sites Howard Carter Flinders Petrie Anastasini Circus Notes References Catholic Encyclopedia article 2001, Belzoni’s Travels, by Alberto Siliotti, The British Museum Press, Further reading Mayes, Stanley. The Great Belzoni: The Circus Strongman Who Discovered Egypt`s Treasures. Tauris Parke Paperbacks (2003). Noël Hume, Ivor. Belzoni: The Giant Archaeologists Love to Hate. University of Virginia Press (2011). Siliotti, Alberto. Belzoni’s Travels. (2001) The British Museum Press, Jasanoff, Maya. Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850. (2005) Random House, Ronalds, B.F. Sir Francis Ronalds: Father of the Electric Telegraph, Imperial College Press (2016), - describes the creation of Belzoni's likeness Disher, Maurice Willson. Pharoah's Fool. Heinemann (1957) Zatterin, Marco. "Il Gigante del Nilo" Mondadori (2000), Il Mulino (2008), Mondadori (2019) Gaia Servadio L'Italiano piu’ famoso del mondo Bompiani. (2018) External links 1778 births 1823 deaths 19th-century archaeologists People from Padua Italian antiquarians Italian archaeologists Italian Egyptologists Italian Roman Catholics Explorers from the Republic of Venice Explorers of Africa People associated with the British Museum 19th-century Italian people 19th-century antiquarians Abu Simbel