Egypt
- The Museum Of Egyptian Antiquities In Turin
Al Masry Al Youm “The road to Memphis and Thebes passes through Turin,” wrote the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs Jean-François Champollion when he came to Turin in 1824. The Egyptian Museum of antiquities in Turin, an elegant city in the Italian...
- Temporary Installation Of The Tomb Of Kha
Museo Egizio Thanks to Tim Reid's Egyptians blog for pointing to the above page. The Museo Egizio is showing an interactive video of the temporary exhibit of the Tomb of Kha. You can navigate around the exhibit and zoom in to get a better look at...
- Museums
Video: The basement of the Cairo Museum drhawass.com The footage of the Cairo Museum's basement is terrific. The main story of the video is Hawass's early experience of archaeology from a site called Kom Abu Billu and how he found a particular...
- Turin's Museo Egizio
http://tinyurl.com/qdxp4 "The daily pleasures and challenges of the Ancient Egyptians are brought back to life in a new show at Turin's Egyptology Museum. The exhibition centres on the lives of a wealthy couple, an 11th Dynasty (2,000 BC) King's...
- Museo Egizio, Turin
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=72824§ion=artstravel A description of the ancient Egyptian collections in the Turn museum of Egyptology, which has opened a new gallery in time for the 2006 Winter Olympics, and has one of the biggest...
Egypt
Review: Museo Egizio
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=oly&id=2333012
A description of the Turin museum of Egyptology. The presence of this article on a sports-focused website is due to the Winter Olympics, which are based in Turin. "Although the Greeks invented the Olympics, the ancient Egyptians were no couch potatoes in athletic feats. Pharaoh Amenhotep II -- an accomplished horse rider, runner and archer -- bragged that he was the greatest sportsman of all time and made sure royal sculptors captured his massive biceps and pecs.The granite colossus of the 15th century B.C. ruler is just one of the ancient marvels that Turin's Egyptian Museum offers to visitors looking for a break from the Winter Games hosted by this northern city and the surrounding Alpine slopes. The Museo Egizio claims one of the largest collections of Egyptian antiquities outside Cairo. Just in time for the Olympics, it opened a new pride-and-joy gallery set up by Dante Ferretti, Oscar-winning art director for The Aviator. The new exhibit gives visitors a who's who of ancient Egypt through 56 monumental statues, bathed in soft light and reflected in ghostly images by opaque mirrors."
See the above website for more details.
- The Museum Of Egyptian Antiquities In Turin
Al Masry Al Youm “The road to Memphis and Thebes passes through Turin,” wrote the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs Jean-François Champollion when he came to Turin in 1824. The Egyptian Museum of antiquities in Turin, an elegant city in the Italian...
- Temporary Installation Of The Tomb Of Kha
Museo Egizio Thanks to Tim Reid's Egyptians blog for pointing to the above page. The Museo Egizio is showing an interactive video of the temporary exhibit of the Tomb of Kha. You can navigate around the exhibit and zoom in to get a better look at...
- Museums
Video: The basement of the Cairo Museum drhawass.com The footage of the Cairo Museum's basement is terrific. The main story of the video is Hawass's early experience of archaeology from a site called Kom Abu Billu and how he found a particular...
- Turin's Museo Egizio
http://tinyurl.com/qdxp4 "The daily pleasures and challenges of the Ancient Egyptians are brought back to life in a new show at Turin's Egyptology Museum. The exhibition centres on the lives of a wealthy couple, an 11th Dynasty (2,000 BC) King's...
- Museo Egizio, Turin
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=72824§ion=artstravel A description of the ancient Egyptian collections in the Turn museum of Egyptology, which has opened a new gallery in time for the 2006 Winter Olympics, and has one of the biggest...