Egypt
- 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...
- More Re Turin Papyrus
Discovery Channel News (Rossella Lorenzi) Good summary of what the Turin Canon actually is and what the newly discovered fragments mean for its interpretation. Some newly recovered papyrus fragments may finally help solve a century-old puzzle, shedding...
- 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...
- Review: Museo Egizio
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=oly&id=2333012A 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...
- More From Dr. Hawass
Recently Dr. Zahi Hawass' wish list of objects he wants back in Egypt has grown by one more item, that being the important statue of Ramses II in in the Museo Egizio in Turin. In this interview with Dr. Hawass he tells his usual give us back the Rosetta...
Egypt
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 Treasurer called Iti and his wife Neferu - but also evokes the existence of more common people. The burial chamber of Iti's tomb, excavated in 1911 by Turin archaeologists, includes alabaster and terracotta vessels and a bronze mirror belonging to Neferu .It also has beautifully detailed pictures of ritual and daily life .Through a new display, visitors can 'see' the couple in their house and fields, along the River Nile and in the surrounding desert. Moving out from the tomb, the show presents objects of daily life to give an idea of the rhythm of Egyptian existence 4,000 years ago."
See the above for more informtion.
The Turin museum's webiste (Museo Egizio) is under construction, but can be found at:
"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 Treasurer called Iti and his wife Neferu - but also evokes the existence of more common people. The burial chamber of Iti's tomb, excavated in 1911 by Turin archaeologists, includes alabaster and terracotta vessels and a bronze mirror belonging to Neferu .It also has beautifully detailed pictures of ritual and daily life .Through a new display, visitors can 'see' the couple in their house and fields, along the River Nile and in the surrounding desert. Moving out from the tomb, the show presents objects of daily life to give an idea of the rhythm of Egyptian existence 4,000 years ago."
See the above for more informtion.
The Turin museum's webiste (Museo Egizio) is under construction, but can be found at:
http://www.museoegizio.org/
- 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...
- More Re Turin Papyrus
Discovery Channel News (Rossella Lorenzi) Good summary of what the Turin Canon actually is and what the newly discovered fragments mean for its interpretation. Some newly recovered papyrus fragments may finally help solve a century-old puzzle, shedding...
- 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...
- Review: Museo Egizio
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=oly&id=2333012A 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...
- More From Dr. Hawass
Recently Dr. Zahi Hawass' wish list of objects he wants back in Egypt has grown by one more item, that being the important statue of Ramses II in in the Museo Egizio in Turin. In this interview with Dr. Hawass he tells his usual give us back the Rosetta...