Egyptian Museum of Turin, Italy
The Egyptian Museum of Turin (the second in the world after the Cairo Museum) was established in 1824. In the early 19th century, Carlo Felice, influenced by the interest in Egyptian culture which had been spreading all over Europe following Napoleon’s campaigns in Egypt, acquired a substantial number of the finds collected by the Piedmontese Bernardino Drovetti, French consul general in Egypt. Between 1903 and 1920 the Italian Archaeological Mission launched a number of excavation campaigns along the Nile, thus acquiring additional material; new pieces were also added to the museum between 1930 and 1969. In 1988 the museum was entirely renovated.
The Drovetti Collection, original nucleus of the Egyptian Museum, gathers 98 statues, as well as an extraordinary collection of papyri which can be considered as the most important set of Egyptian written documents in the world. Included in the collection are the Royal Papyrus, also known as the Papyrus from Turin, with the list of all the kings from 3,00 to 1,600 BC; paintings from the tomb of It, discovered in 1911, representing religious scenes as well as agricultural and artisan activities; and the extraordinary cloth, discovered in 1930 in a prehistorically tomb at Gebelein, which is the most ancient painted in the world (3,500 BC); it depicts boats, hunting scenes and ritual dances.
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