Museum of Egyptian Antiquities of Turin (TO) - Piedmont - "sensitive images"
- Tuttitaly
- Jan 26, 2022
- 2 min read
Updated: Jul 9
The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Turin is considered, for the value of its finds, the most important Egyptian Museum in the world after the one in Cairo. It is therefore worth visiting to admire the testimonies of one of the greatest civilizations in human history... #tuttitaly
The Egyptian Museum of Turin was founded in 1824 by King Carlo Felice of Savoy. He gave life to it thanks to the collection of Bernardino Drovetti (5628 artifacts), that of Donati, and other antiquities owned by the House of Savoy. To this collection, other findings were added between 1900 and 1935 by the Italian Archaeological Mission and brought to Italy. Today, the artifacts found remain in Egypt and are no longer shared with the country of origin of the expedition.
Today, the Egyptian Museum is housed in the Palazzo dell'Accademia delle Scienze, the imposing building built in 1679 by the architect Michelangelo Garove on the original project of Guarino Guarini.
The exhibits in the Museum cover a period ranging from the Paleolithic to the Coptic era, i.e., the era of native Egyptian Christians. Six thousand five hundred archaeological finds are exhibited, but over 26,000 are deposited in warehouses.
Among the exhibits, the following stand out for their importance:
- The Rupestrian Temple of Ellesija, built by Pharaoh Thutmose III and donated by Egypt to Italy after the Egyptian Museum of Turin saved it from the danger of being submerged by Lake Nasser in 1965;
- The statues of the goddesses Isis and Sekhmet and Ramesses II;
- The Papyrus of the Gold Mines, the map of the mines in the area in the north-east of Sudan, the seat of the ancient urban settlement of Berenice Pancrisia;
- The intact Tomb of Kha and Merit;
- The reliefs of Djoser, pharaoh of the 3rd Egyptian dynasty.
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