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Egyptian statues in the museum.
Egyptian statues in the museum.

The Museo Egizio is a museum in Turin, Italy, specialising in Egyptian archaelogy and anthropology. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Ancient Egyptian art refers to the style of painting sculpture crafts and architecture developed by the Civilization in the lower Nile Valley from 5000 Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from Greek grc ἀρχαιολογία archaiologia – grc ἀρχαῖος archaīos Anthropology (/ˌænθɹəˈpɒlədʒi/ from Greek grc ἄνθρωπος anthrōpos, "human" -λογία -logia) is the study of It is home to what is regarded as one of the largest collections of Egyptian antiquities outside of Egypt.

In 2006 it received 554,911 visitors. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. [1]

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History

The first object having an association with Egypt to arrive in Turin was the Mensa Islaca in 1630, an altar table in imitation of Egyptian style, which Dulu Jones suggests had been created for a temple to Isis in Rome. Isis is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs and is celebrated in their mythology as the ideal mother and wife patron of nature and magic friend of slaves sinners [2] This exotic piece spurred King Carlo Emmanuele III to commission botanist Vitaliano Donati to travel to Egypt in 1753 and acquire items from its past. Charles Emmanuel III ( April 27, 1701 - February 20, 1773) was the Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia from 1730 until his Vitaliano Donati (1717-1762 born in Padua in Italy, was an Italian doctor archeologist and botanist Year 1753 ( MDCCLIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Donati returned with 300 pieces recovered from Karnak and Coptos, which became the nucleus of the Turin collection. The Karnak temple complex, universally known only as Karnak, describes a vast conglomeration of ruined temples chapels pylons and other buildings Qift ( قفط; Coptic: Keft or Kebto; Egyptian Gebtu; Greek Coptos

In 1824, King Carlo Felice acquired the material from the Drovetti collection (5,268 pieces, including 100 statues, 170 papyri, stelae, mummies, and other items), that the French General Consul, Bernardino Drovetti, had built during his stay in Egypt. Other The Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa is entitled to him Ancestors Papyrus (/pəˈpaɪrəs/ (Rhymes -aɪrəs)is a thick paper-like material produced from the Pith of the papyrus plant Cyperus papyrus Bernardino Michele Maria Drovetti ( January 4, 1776 -1852 was an Italian diplomat lawyer explorer and antiquarian appointed by Napoleon as In the same year, Jean-François Champollion used the huge Turin collection of papyruses to test his breakthroughs in deciphering the hieroglyphic writing. Jean-François Champollion ( 23 December 1790 – 4 March 1832) was a French classical scholar, philologist The time Champollion spent in Turin studying the texts is also the origin of a legend about the mysterious disappearance of the "Papiro Regio", that was only later found and of which some portions are still unavailable. In 1950 a parapsychologist was contacted to pinpoint them, to no avail.

In 1833, the collection of Piedmontese Giuseppe Sossio (over 1,200 pieces) was added to the Egyptian Museum. The collection was complemented and completed by the finds of Egyptologist Ernesto Schiaparelli, during his excavation campaigns between 1900 and 1920, further filled out the collection. Ernesto Schiaparelli ( July 12, 1856 &ndash 1928 was an Italian Egyptologist, born in Occhieppo Inferiore (Biella who found Queen Nefertari Its last major acquisition was the small tempe of Ellesiya, which the Egyptian government presented to Italy for her assistance during the Nubian monument salvage campaign in the 1960s. This article is about the region in Africa for other uses see Nubia (disambiguation.

Through all these years, the Egyptian collection has always been in Turin, in the building projected for the purpose of housing it, Via Accademia delle Scienze 6. Only during the Second World War was some of the material moved to the town of Agliè. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Agliè is a Comune (municipality in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 35 km north of The museum became an experiment of the Italian government in privatization of the nation's museums when the Fondazione Museo delle Antichita Egizie was officially established at the end of 2004. Privatization is the incidence or process of transferring ownership of business from the Public sector (government to the Private sector (business "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " The building itself was remodelled in celebration of the 2006 Winter Olympics, with its main rooms redesigned by Dante Ferretti, and "featured an imaginative use of lighting and mirrors in a spectacular display of some of the most important and impressive Pharaonic statues in the museum collection. The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, were a Winter Multi-sport event which was celebrated in Dante Ferretti (born February 26 1943) is an Italian Academy Award winning Art director and Costume Designer "[3]

Collection

Items of interest include:

The Egyptian Museum owns three different versions of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, including the most ancient copy known. ' The Book of the Dead' is the common name for the Ancient Egyptian Funerary text known as ' Spells of Coming' (or ' Going') ' Forth By Day' An integral illustrated version and the personal copy of the First Royal Architect Kha, found by Schiaparelli in 1906 are normally shown to the public. On more than one occasion the director of the Museum was asked to remove the two copies of the book on display and stock them in a deep and dark basement, always for strictly esoteric reasons (as the papyrus emanates "negative energy"). At the time of writing, none of these requests appears to have been put into practice.

Trivia

In the film The Italian Job the entrance hall of the Museo Egizio is the place where the robbers tow the security van in order to transfer the bullion to the three getaway Minis. The Italian Job is a British caper film, written by Troy Kennedy Martin, produced by Michael Deeley and directed by Peter The Mini is a small car that was produced by the British Motor Corporation (BMC and its successors from 1959 until 2000

Notes

  1. ^ Dossier Musei 2007 I Dossier del Touring Club Italiano: Dossier Musei 2007 (Italian). Touring Club Italiano. Touring Club Italiano – in english also known as the Touring Club of Italy – is the major Italian national tourist organization
  2. ^ Dulu Jones, "Spectacular Turin: The reopening of the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities", Minerva, 17 (May/June 2006), pp. 10f.
  3. ^ Jones, "Spectacular Turin", p. 10.

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