Diary of an Egiptologo

A 200-year-old travel diary, written by Italian Egyptologist Alessandro Ricci and covering his adventures in Egypt and Tuscany between 1817 and 1822, was recently discovered at Pisa University by researcher Daniele Salvoldi. The diary, which includes descriptions and drawings of Egyptian monuments that were destroyed in the 1800s, was held by French authorities for decades and then vanished before it was eventually found in 1928 in a Cairo bookshop. The diary disappeared once again in 1948 until it was rediscovered by Salvoldi.