From Siena to Nubia

Alessandro Ricci, born in Siena, Italy, traveled extensively throughout Egypt and Sudan between 1817 and 1822. He worked as an epigraphist for Giovanni B. Belzoni in the tomb of Seti I and later visited and documented Siwa (1820), Sinai (1820), and Nubia (1818-19 and 1821-22). Ricci wrote a long account of all his journeys and reworked a series of ninety plates into striking form, yet failed to publish either. From Siena to Nubia is the English-translated critical edition, with notes and introductory chapters, of Ricci's travel account.