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Ernest Schiaparelli was from a distinguished family of scholars. His father Luigi Schiaparelli, the paleographer, taught history at the University Of Turin . Giovanni Virgilio Schiaparelli was the famous astronomer, Celestino, the Arabist, Cesare the pioneer of photography, Carlo Felice the agronomist and Giovanni Battista, a pioneer of industrial chemistry, were among his kin.

Between 1903 and 1920 Schiaparelli undertook twelve archaeological campaigns, opening sites in Heliopolis , the cemeteries of Gisa , Hermopolis , Assiut , Qau El-Kebir , Gebelein and Aswan (the tomb of Harchuf).


MAIN PUBLICATIONS

  • ''Del sentimento religioso degli Egiziani'' (1877)

  • ''Il Libro del Funerali degli antichi Egiziani'', 3 vols. (1881-1890) On the Egyptian Book Of The Dead .

  • ''Les Hypogées de Thebes'' (1889)



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