Giuseppe Ferlini

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Ferlini raided the Meroe pyramids in 1834.
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Ferlini raided the Meroe pyramids in 1834.

Giuseppe Ferlini (1800-1870) of Bologna, Italy was an Italian doctor turned explorer and archaeologist who excavated over 40 pyramids in a quest for treasure in the 1820s in Egypt and Sudan. He excavated Meroë in Sudan in 1834. Ferlini found only one cache of gold. His finds were later sold, and remain at the museums in Munich and Berlin.

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