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Why did Giovanni Belzoni stay in Egypt?

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He subsequently became involved in securing Egyptian antiquities in order to sell them to European collectors. He opened (1817) the rock temple of Abu-Simbel , and he discovered (1817) the tomb of Seti I at Thebes.

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