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How to explore the complexity of the Egyptians: talks Paolo Marini (Egyptian Museum)

Paolo Marini is an Egyptologist whose career is distinguished by the link between academic research and curating international exhibitions. A graduate and Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Pisa, Marini has developed an interest in Egyptian g...
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Rare discovery in Egypt: here is the tomb of the governor's daughter

Important archaeological discovery in Egypt, where an Egyptian-German archaeological mission led by Sohag University and the Free University of Berlin has discovered, inside the tomb of Governor Djefai-Hapi in the Assiut region (which Djefai-Hapi adm...
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Egypt, military fort discovered: it was to defend the Egyptians from the mysterious Sea Peoples

Archaeological discovery in Egypt, where the archaeological mission of the Supreme Council of Antiquities led by archaeologist Ahmed Said Al-Kharadli has uncovered a set of mud-brick architectural units used in ancient times as a military fort, which...
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Egyptian Museum moves to Versilia: Turin-based institute brings exhibition to Forte dei Marmi

Egypt on the shores of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Egyptian Museum of Turin taking a vacation in Versilia. Indeed, the Versilia summer will be under the banner of the ancient Eg yptians with the exhibition The Egyptians and the Gifts of the Nile, sche...
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Egypt: they attempt to steal a 10-ton statue of Ramses with a crane. Three people arrested

On Tuesday, Jan. 10, Egyptian authorities announced that they had arrested three people who had tried to steal a ten-ton thousand-year-old statue of Pharaoh Ramses II with the help of a crane. In a statement, the prosecution said it had "ordered the...
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Egypt, remains of a building unearthed. Possibly one of the solar temples of the 5th Dynasty

In Abusir, Egypt, the remains of a building, probably one of four Solar Temples of the Fifth Dynasty not yet archaeologically documented, have been unearthed. The joint Italian-Polish archaeological mission (University of Naples L'Orientale and the ...
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Egypt, Greco-Roman tomb discovered thanks to joint mission of University of Milan

Thanks to EIMAWA (Egyptian-Italian Mission at West Aswan ), a joint Italian-Egyptian mission to Aswan by theUniversity of Milan and the Ministry of Antiquities Egyptian directed for the Italian side by Professor Patrizia Piacentini with the deputy di...
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The anthropologist's gaze. An exhibition at the Egyptian Museum in Turin on the relationship between Egyptology and anthropology

At the Egyptian Museum in Turin, the exhibition The Anthropologist's Gaze will be on view until Nov. 15, 2020. Set up in a room on the second floor, the small exhibition is created by the curators of the Turin museum branch in collaboration with the ...
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