Background
Sarah Ban(n?)e was born in January 1783 in Bristol.
Sarah Ban(n?)e was born in January 1783 in Bristol.
She travelled notably to and wrote about women there. She met Giovanni Belzoni and in 1812 the pair employed James Curtin who was an Irishmen. In 1815 they went to
In the two of them lived sometimes in boats and at other times in temples.
Her husband would frequently leave her for long periods and she would be left to speak with the strangers around her in whatever language they spoke.
Her husband found Seti I"s well preserved tomb in 1817 in the Valley of the Kings. They created a facsimile of the tomb of Seti I and charged people to see lieutenant
Belzoni died in Jersey where there is a simple gravestone. The gravestone was thought to be lost until it was rediscovered in 2011.
The stone read SACRED TO THE BELOVED MEMORY OF SARAH WIDOW OF GIOVANNI BAPTISTA BELZONI THE TRAVELLER Safety, Health, Environment DIED Ontario System Technologies. HELIER THE 12TH 1870.