Egyptian statues in the museum.

The Museo Egizio is a museum in Turin, Italy. It is home to what is regarded as the second largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world (the first being the Egyptian Museum in Cairo). Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (3072 × 2304 pixel, file size: 326 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Museo Egizio ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (3072 × 2304 pixel, file size: 326 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Museo Egizio ... “Torino” redirects here. ... Main entrance of the Egyptian Museum The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum, in Cairo, Egypt, is home to the most extensive collection of pharaonic antiquities in the world. ... Nickname: Egypt: Site of Cairo (top center) Coordinates: Government  - Governor Dr. Abdul Azim Wazir Area  - City 214 km²  (82. ...

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.^[1] 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. Donati returned with 300 pieces recovered from Karnak and Coptos, which became the nucleus of the Turin collection. This article discusses the ancient goddess. ... Medal of Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia. ... 1753 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Map of Karnak, showing major temple complexes Interior of Temple First pylon of precinct of Amun viewed from the west Al-Karnak (Arabic الكرنك, in Ancient Egypt was named Ipet Sut, the most venerated place) is a small village in Egypt, located on the banks of the River Nile some 2. ... Qift (قفط) is a small town in the Qina governorate of Egypt about 43 km north of Luxor, on the east bank of the Nile. ...

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. In the same year, Jean-François Champollion used the huge Turin collection of papyruses to test his breakthroughs in deciphering the hieroglyphic writing. 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. Charles Felix April 6, 1765-April 27, 1831 was the Duke of Savoy, Piedmont, Aosta and King of Sardinia from 1821 to 1831 For all hereditary titles, check Vittorio Amedeo III. He died without issue. ... Papyrus plant Cyperus papyrus at Kew Gardens, London Papyrus is an early form of paper produced from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge that was once abundant in the Nile Delta of Egypt. ... Bernardino Drovetti (1776-1852) was an Italian diplomat, explorer and antiquarian, best known as French consul to Egypt at a time when the country and its antiquities were being opened rapidly to European knowledge and acquisition. ... now. ...

Incidentally, the budding collection in Turin forced other institutions around the world to improve their Egyptian wings.

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. 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. Ernesto Schiaparelli was an italian archaeologist who found Queen Nefertaris tomb in Deir al-Madinah. ... Nubia is the region in the south of Egypt, along the Nile and in northern Sudan. ...

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. 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. 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."^[2] Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Country Italy Region Piedmont Province Province of Turin (TO) Mayor  ? Elevation 315 m Area 13. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Neve and Gliz, the 2006 Olympics mascots, on display in Turin Italian €2 commemorative coin of 2006 celebrating the Turin games The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, were celebrated in Turin, Italy from February 10, 2006, through February 26, 2006. ... Dante Ferretti is an Italian art director and costume designer for films. ...

Collection

Items of interest include:

• Assemblea dei Re (Kings Assembly) a term originally indicating a collection of statues representing all the kings of the New Kingdom.
• Temple of Tuthmosi III
• Sarcophagi, mummies and books of the dead originally belonging to the Drovetti collection.
• A painting on canvas dated at about 3500 BC (found in 1931)
• Funerary paraphernalia from the Tomba di Ignoti (Tomb of Unknown) from the Old Kingdom
• Tomb of Kha and of Mirit, found intact by Schiaparelli and transferred in toto in the museum
• Papyrus collection room, originally collected by Drovetti and later used by Champollion during his studies for the decoding of the hieroglyphics.
• Mensa Isiaca (The Table of Isis)
• Tomba Dipinta (The Painted Tomb) usually closed to the public.

The Egyptian Museum owns three different versions of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, including the most ancient copy known. 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").^{[citation needed]} At the time of writing, none of these requests appears to have been put into practice. (36th century BC - 35th century BC - 34th century BC - other centuries) (5th millennium BC - 4th millennium BC - 3rd millennium BC) Events ? - Formation of the Sahara Desert 3450 (?) - Stage IId of the Naqada culture in Egypt Significant persons Inventions, discoveries, introductions ? _ Irrigation in Egypt ? - First use of Cuneiform (script) Categories... This article discusses the ancient goddess. ... The Book of the Dead The Book of the Dead is the common name for ancient Egyptian funerary texts known as The Book of Coming [or Going] Forth By Day. ...

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 comedy caper film, written by Troy Kennedy Martin, produced by Michael Deeley and directed by Peter Collinson. ... For the new MINI, see MINI (BMW). ...

Notes

External links

• Museo Egizio website

See also

• Egyptian Museum
• Grand Egyptian Museum
• Egyptian Museum of Berlin