Mural from the Tombs of the Kings of Thebes, discovered by G Belzoni Size:XS: 20 x 15cm 12th September 1979

12th September 1979

The King paid a state visit to Windsor Castle in 1844

Imperial aulopus' [modern taxonomy Latropiscis purpurissatus

On the left a group of ill people wait for their turn in the miraculous waters

In the foreground figures stand sheltering under umbrellas watching the event

Mural from the Tombs of the Kings of Thebes, discovered by G Belzoni Size:XS: 20 x 15cm 12th September 1979Mural from the tombs of the Kings of Thebes, discovered by G Belzoni, 1820 1822. Italian eplorer and antiquity hunter Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778 1823) made numerous important archaeological finds in Egypt from 1815 until his death. Plate 1 from Plates Illustrative of the Researches in Egypt and Nubia by Giovanni Battista Belzoni.