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  Museo Egizio -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Museo Egizio in (Capital city of the Piemonte region of northwestern Italy) Turin is home to what is regarded as the second largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world (the first being the (additional info and facts about Cairo Museum) Cairo Museum).
The first nucleus of the Turin collection dates back to the year 1753, when botanist Vitaliano Donati first brought in Italy the statues (300 pieces) recovered from (additional info and facts about Karnak) Karnak and Coptos.
Fans of the UK (additional info and facts about cult film) cult film (additional info and facts about The Italian Job) The Italian Job will recognise the entrance hall of the Museo Egizio as the place where the robbers tow the security van in order to transfer the bullion to the three getaway Minis.
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 Museo Egizio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Museo Egizio in Turin is home to what is regarded as the second largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world (the first being the Cairo Museum).
The first nucleus of the Turin collection dates back to the year 1753, when botanist Vitaliano Donati first brought in Italy the statues (300 pieces) recovered from Karnak and Coptos.
Fans of the UK cult film The Italian Job will recognise the entrance hall of the Museo Egizio as the place where the robbers tow the security van in order to transfer the bullion to the three getaway Minis.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Museo_Egizio   (533 words)

  
 Search Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The villa was decorated with frescoes by Pinturicchio and others; a chapel painted by Mantegna was demolished when the villa was made part of the Museo Pio-Clementino at the end of the 18th cent.
In Catalonia and the territories of the counts of Barcelona, art flowered in the early Middle Ages and continued to flourish through the Renaissance.
Some of the finest surviving altar-panel paintings of the Romanesque period are Catalan.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Vatican
The wing to the south (Galleria delle inscrizioni and Museo Chiaramonti) was built by Julius II; the northern wing (picture-gallery and library), by Pius IV.
The Vatican museums are: (1) The Museo Pio-Clementino; (2) the Galleria Chiaramonti; (3) the Braccio Nuovo; (4) the Egyptian Museum; (5) the Etruscan Museum.
Among the valuable treasures of art, manuscripts, archives, and collections which Napoleon confiscated on his campaigns and conveyed to Paris, were the most prominent art treasures of the Vatican and the churches in the Papal States.
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 In Italy Online - From Ancient Art to Modern Technology in Turin
The majestic Museo dell'Automobile sits about two miles south of central Torino, on bluffs overlooking the Po River.
Il Museo Egizio is in the Palazzo dell'Accademia delle Scienze, Via Accademia delle Scienze 6, tel.
Il Museo dell'Automobile Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia is at Corso Unità d'Italia 40, tel.
www.initaly.com /regions/museums/sims.htm   (1292 words)

  
 Saudi Aramco World : A Trove in Turin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Still, this picturesque Savoyard town, tucked in beneath the snow-capped peaks of the Piedmont Alps, is an unlikely spot for a collection as important - and as interesting - as that of the Museo Egizio di Torino.
Like many great museums, the Turin collection began as a royal collection - that of the House of Savoy the Piedmont dukes who were later to become kings of a united Italy.
As Professor Silvio Curto, the present director of the Turin Museum, says, the Museo Egizio di Torino is a museum, not of an ancient Egyptian art, but of ancient Egyptian civilization.
www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/197801/a.trove.in.turin.htm   (2064 words)

  
 Gebelein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Papyri and demotic and Greek ostraka show that Gebelein was still important during this Pathyris-Aphroditopolis period.
Images are line drawings of artifacts from Roveri's "Gebelein," in Beyond the Pyramids: Egyptian Regional Art from the Museo Egizio, Turin, c.
Roveri, Anna Maria Donadonni, "Gebelein," in Beyond the Pyramids: Egyptian Regional Art from the Museo Egizio, Turin (Gay Robins, ed.), Atlanta, Georgia, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, c.
www.hethert.org /gebelein.html   (789 words)

  
 In Italy Online - Turin
Be here by 9 a.m., because you can easily spend the entire morning in the Palazzo dell'Accademia delle Scienze, home of the Museo Egizio, which for Egyptian artifacts is second only to the Archeological Museum in Cairo.
Museo Egizio: open Tues-Sun 9-2 (later in summer).
Museo dell'Automobile: open 9:30-12:30 and 3-7 summer hours; 10-12:30 and 3-5:30 winter hours.
www.initaly.com /regions/piedmont/turin.htm   (608 words)

  
 Attractions | Turin Travel Information | Lonely Planet Destination Guide
The Palazzo dell'Accademia delle Scienze is home to the Museo Egizio.
Split across five floors, the museum leads visitors on a fascinating interactive tour of Italian cinematic......
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 Turin : Attractions | Frommers.com
The card grants you 48 hours of free public transport within Turin, discounts on concerts and the like, and lets you pick two museums to enter for free, with discounts at other museums (though no reduction is available at the most popular museums, including Palazzo Reale/Armeria Reale, Galleria Sabuada, and the Museo Egizio).
Museo Nazionale del Risorgimento (National Museum of the Risorgimento)
Palazzo Madama - Museo Civico di Arte Antica (Civic Museum of Ancient Art)
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 origami.com | Origami Listserv Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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 Find in a Library: Beyond the pyramids : Egyptian regional art from the Museo Egizio, Turin
Beyond the pyramids : Egyptian regional art from the Museo Egizio, Turin
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 TourismNet :  Your Smart Gate To Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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 O.Cair.: Ostraka greci del Museo Egizio del Cairo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
O.Cair.: Ostraka greci del Museo Egizio del Cairo
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 Museo Egizio, Turin | MyTravelGuide.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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This church, (a bit out of the centre, but popular with the Torinesi), has a large, votive stake.
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 Artua'&Solferino. Turin, Italy - Discounted rates at bookings.net
The Hotel is situated on the very top of a splendid and magnificent building from the end of the 19th century and keeps still today some of the particularities of this era: from the doors made of massive wood with their brass knobs to the ample stairwell in white marble.
We are i think, i one of the best place in Turin City centre, near all museam, LA Mole, museo Egizio, Atrium,.
In a quiet little street in the last floor of a splendi building of 1800.
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 Beyond the Pyramids: Egyptian Regional Art from the Museo Egizio, Turin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Beyond the Pyramids: Egyptian Regional Art from the Museo Egizio, Turin
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 Museo Egizio di Torino
We can therefore imagine that the riches of the Turin collection were unknown or scarcely frequented by researchers.
Note - reading any Egyptian text from the Museo Egizio grants checks in Archaeology, History, Occult plus the obvious check for "Reading Ancient Egypian" (or equivalents)
LA LISTA DEI RE (The List of Kings)
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