Michał Tyszkiewicz was a Polish

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-Lithuania

Lithuania

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n collector of antiques and amateur Egyptologist

Egyptology

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, member of the once powerful Tyszkiewicz

Tyszkiewicz

The Tyszkiewicz family was a wealthy and influential magnate family of Ruthenian/Lithuanian nobility with roots traced into the times of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania...

 noble family.

He excavated at Luxor

Luxor

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 in 1861-1862 and revisited Egypt

Egypt

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 in 1867-1868, building up a collection during his travels.
It is now split between Paris, London, Copenhagen, Berlin, Boston, Rome, and the Tyszkiewicz Palace

Tyszkiewicz Palace

Tyszkiewicz Palace or Tiškevičiai Palace can refer to several palaces of Tyszkiewicz family.Places named Tyszkiewicz Palace or "former Tyszkiewicz Palace" and other historically-owned properties of the family are located in Warsaw and Kraków, and in numerous towns of modern Poland, Belarus,...

 at Lahojsk

Lahojsk

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, Belarus

Belarus

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. A small part of it remains in Poland in the National Museum in Warsaw.

Writings

• Diary of a Journey to Egypt and Nubia, Paris 1863.
• Memories of an old collector, translated into English by Mrs. Andrew Lang. Longmans, Green, London 1898.