Johann Ludwig Burckhardt

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1784 - 1817

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Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, also called Ibrāhīm Ibn ʿabd Allāh (born Nov. 24, 1784, Lausanne, Switz.—died Oct. 15, 1817, Cairo, Egypt) was a Swiss traveller, geographer, and orientalist. He is best known for rediscovering the ruins of the ancient city of Petra in Jordan. Burckhardt went to England in 1806. He studied Arabic, science and medicine at Cambridge University in London. In 1809 he left England and travelled to Aleppo Syria
to perfect his Arabic and Muslim customs. Afterwards he went on a journey to the regions south of the Sahara, via Fezzan, now the southwestern sector of Libya. When he was on the way from Syria to Cairo in 1812, he discovered the important archaeological site at Petra, in modern Jordan. In Cairo he found no reliable caravan to Fezzan; hence he decided to travel up the Nile. In so doing he discovered the imposing rock temple Abu Simbel. Then he traveled through Arabia, visiting Mecca. He went back to Cairo where he died, still waiting for a chance to cross the Sahara.

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