Giuseppe Botti’s Biography

Dr. Sherine Kamal Mohamed Ezz El-Din, Head of the Archaeological Registration and Documentation Department at the Greco-Roman Museum in Alexandria

26 November 2024

01:00 PM

Auditorium, BA Main Entrance

The BA Antiquities Museum, affiliated to the Cultural Outreach Sector is organizing a lecture entitled Giuseppe Botti’s Biography, Tuesday, 26 November 2024; 1:00 pm, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Antiquities Museum, Hall of Life in the Afterlife. The lecture will be delivered by Dr. Sherine Kamal Mohamed Ezz El-Din, Head of the Archaeological Registration and Documentation Department at the Greco-Roman Museum in Alexandria.

Giuseppe Botti is one of  the most famous Italian archaeologists. His practical and scientific biography indicates that he is the founder of the most important museum in the world, the Greco-Roman Museum, due to its value in the human heritage because of the antiquities it contains dating back to ancient civilizations that passed through the ancient city of Alexandria, which was once the capital of Egypt during the Macedonian and then the Ptolemaic period.

The speaker sheds light on the biography of Giuseppe Botti from his graduation from the University of Bologna, Italy in June 1879, until his death in Alexandria in 1903, through the personal letters he left behind and received from his grandchildren and heirs, Mrs. Clara Botti, and Mrs. Paola Botti.

All these experiences have shaped the personality of the great archaeologist Giuseppe Botti from a university student at the University of Bologna to the museums of Bulaq, Turin and Florence and a teacher in the various Italian schools in Naples, Turin, Florence, Cagliari, Matera, Reggio Calabria, Messina, Spoleto, the Italian schools in Tunisia and then Alexandria, to which he moved as director of the Italian school. He finally wrote his name in golden letters in history, as the Founder of the Greco-Roman Museum.