Giovanni Belzoni

A person that I admire is Giovanni Belzoni. he was born in Italy on 1778 but latter he travel to England and he worked there as an strong man in a circus. Years after that he traveled to Egipto, and he started exploring tombs and selling archaeology materials to important persons or museums. He discovered a lot of things, and has a lot of adventures, he wrote a book of his adventures and discovery called "

Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia, &c". Belzoni explored Elephantine (Jazirat Aswan) and the Temple of Edfu (Idfu). In 1818 he became the first person in modern times to enter the pyramid of Khafre at Giza. He was also one of the first Europeans to visit the oasis of Siwa, and he identified the ruins of Berenice on the Red Sea.

I like him because he do very interesting things, his adventures includes things like run away from the army, the police, and natives, some people consider him a tomb raider, and disapprove his methods because he disregarded many items that did not interest him and must have damaged much in pursuit of his goal, but it doesn´t matter to anybody in his time 

Maybe he didn't make big contributions to archaeology in theory but he found a lot of important material that actually is showed in big museums or expositions.

 

                                             

Books

I really love to read, I think that it is probably because my mother makes me read a lot when I was a child. I don´t know how much books I have read, but it is a big number. I have a lot of books in my room and a have read it all.

I think that I prefer fiction books, my favorite book could be “Ensayo sobre la cegera” written by José Saramago, or maybe “Brave New World” whose author is Aldous Huxley.  But what I really now is that my favorite character of literature is Sherlock Holmes, I think that this character is very interesting, he is very smart and cleaver and he is also weird, but it makes him more special.

I recently read “The silence of the lambs” written by Thomas Harris.  I read it very fast, just in a few days. It is about a student of FBI academy who needs to catch a killer, and for that she goes to a mental hospital to talk whit a psychopathic called Hannibal Lecter, who was a famous psychiatrist that starts killing and eating people. He was really smart and manipulator; he will confuse her and search the opportunity to escape. It is a very interesting book, whit a lot of action and suspense. I really love it.