For the earliest Egyptologists, a trip to the Egyptian Museum in Turin was considered indispensable. The museum's new director is seeking to return the almost 200-year-old museum to its one-time ...

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Now, the ancient Egyptian mummy housed at the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy, has unveiled that the plague was also prevalent in North Africa at the start of the Bronze Age, reports the Mirror US.

15 things to do in Turin including best cafes, museums and historic sights such as Mole Antonelliana and Turin Egyptian Museum.

Scrolls of Ancient Egypt While the occasional image can be found on pottery fragments or graffiti, erotica was not a part of the general repertory of Ancient Egyptian art. However, in the 1820s, ...

Among its most extraordinary treasures is the Turin King List, also known as the Papyrus of Kings, which is the only surviving document listing the succession of pharaohs handwritten on papyrus.

The Egyptian press also continued to defend the Arabic language and Egyptian identity as separate from the Ottoman one. It asserted the need for freedom of the press and for other public freedoms.

"In Egypt, it was often the eldest son versus all the other children, not so much sons versus daughters. This gave less opportunity for anti-woman sentiment to develop.