 Forbin provided a detailed illustration of Giovanni Belzoni's plans for penetration of the "second pyramid".The "Voyage dans le Levant" was published in 1819, with 80 plates.Another result was Forbin's modestly titled account of the voyage, illustrated with lithographs from his drawings, "Livre de croquis d'un voyageur"

Some remnants of Antiquity from the tour entered the Louvre, but the coup was the acquisition of the Venus de Milo, discovered in 1820.