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...
- Lost Fragments Of The Turin Canon Have Been Found
Enemigos de la Egiptología (EDE) (Teresa Soria) Pieces of the Turin Canon have been rediscovered. Here's a rough summary of the first few paragraphs: Bridget Leach and Richard Parkinson, British Museum experts, are meeting in the Egyptian Museum...
- Turin's Turn: Museo Egizio
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/travel/12498739.htmIt definately appears to be museum day today in the online world of Egyptological news. First off, the above feature looks at the city of Turin, which is to be home to the 2006 Winter...
- Temporary Installation Of Kha And Meryt
This is a must see of an excellent video on a temporary installation of the tomb contents of Kha and Meryt in the Turin museum collection. UPDATE: The temporary installation is no longer but the link still leads to the Turin Museum/ June 15, 2011 ...
- Tragedy In Papyrus
New fragments of the papyrus known as the Turin Kings list have been found in the basement of the Turin museum in Italy. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/02/27/egyptian-papyrus.html...
Egypt
Turin King List
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/813/hr2.htm
"Among the most important objects on show in Turin is the Turin King List, also known as the Turin Royal Canon. This unique papyrus is written in heretic, and owes its modern name to its being exhibited in the Egyptian Museum at Turin.
The papyrus has broken into more than 160 very small fragments, many of which have been lost. When it was discovered in the Theban necropolis by the Italian traveller Bernardino Drovetti in 1822 it was largely intact, but by the time it had been added to the collection in the Turin museum, its condition had severely deteriorated.
The importance of this papyrus was first recognised by the French Egyptologist Jean-François Champollion. The papyrus, now estimated at 1.7m long and 0.41m high, was written during the long reign of Ramses II and comprises on the recto an unknown number of pages that carry a list of names of persons and institutions, along with what appears to be the tax-assessment of each.
It is, however, the verso of the papyrus that has attracted the most attention, as it contains a list of gods, demi-gods, spirits, mythical and human kings who ruled Egypt from the beginning of time presumably until the composition of this valuable document."
The papyrus has broken into more than 160 very small fragments, many of which have been lost. When it was discovered in the Theban necropolis by the Italian traveller Bernardino Drovetti in 1822 it was largely intact, but by the time it had been added to the collection in the Turin museum, its condition had severely deteriorated.
The importance of this papyrus was first recognised by the French Egyptologist Jean-François Champollion. The papyrus, now estimated at 1.7m long and 0.41m high, was written during the long reign of Ramses II and comprises on the recto an unknown number of pages that carry a list of names of persons and institutions, along with what appears to be the tax-assessment of each.
It is, however, the verso of the papyrus that has attracted the most attention, as it contains a list of gods, demi-gods, spirits, mythical and human kings who ruled Egypt from the beginning of time presumably until the composition of this valuable document."
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- 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...
- Lost Fragments Of The Turin Canon Have Been Found
Enemigos de la Egiptología (EDE) (Teresa Soria) Pieces of the Turin Canon have been rediscovered. Here's a rough summary of the first few paragraphs: Bridget Leach and Richard Parkinson, British Museum experts, are meeting in the Egyptian Museum...
- Turin's Turn: Museo Egizio
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/travel/12498739.htmIt definately appears to be museum day today in the online world of Egyptological news. First off, the above feature looks at the city of Turin, which is to be home to the 2006 Winter...
- Temporary Installation Of Kha And Meryt
This is a must see of an excellent video on a temporary installation of the tomb contents of Kha and Meryt in the Turin museum collection. UPDATE: The temporary installation is no longer but the link still leads to the Turin Museum/ June 15, 2011 ...
- Tragedy In Papyrus
New fragments of the papyrus known as the Turin Kings list have been found in the basement of the Turin museum in Italy. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/02/27/egyptian-papyrus.html...