Museo Egizio 3/21/23 Museo Egizio 3/21/23

Saqqara Diaries 2023 - fourth week

Excavating underground

Museo Egizio 3/14/23 Museo Egizio 3/14/23

Saqqara Diary 2023 – Third week

Hello everyone! I am Andrea Pasqui, PhD student in Egyptology at Politecnico di Milano

Museo Egizio 3/7/23 Museo Egizio 3/7/23

Saqqara 2023 - second week

In Amongst the Coffin Wood

Museo Egizio 2/28/23 Museo Egizio 2/28/23

Saqqara Diary 2023 – First week

Researching the contribution of workmen in the Leiden-Turin Expedition

Museo Egizio 12/7/22 Museo Egizio 12/7/22

Thoth’s gift: Reading ancient Egypt

The year 2022 marks the bicentennial of the decipherment of hieroglyphs and the Museo Egizio opens a new exhibition focusing on the writings and languages of the Egyptian civilisation.

Museo Egizio 11/4/22 Museo Egizio 11/4/22

Digging Diaries 2022 - last week

Researching the contribution of workmen in the Leiden-Turin Expedition

Museo Egizio 10/21/22 Museo Egizio 10/21/22

Digging Diaries 2022 - sixth week

New colleagues in the Leiden-Turin Expedition to Saqqara, and a new project

Museo Egizio 10/13/22 Museo Egizio 10/13/22

Digging Diaries 2022 - fifth week

A family affair

Museo Egizio 10/7/22 Museo Egizio 10/7/22

Digging Diaries 2022 - fourth week

Plenty of surprises during the digging activities

Museo Egizio 9/30/22 Museo Egizio 9/30/22

Digging Diaries 2022 - third week

Topographic and photogrammetric survey activities

Museo Egizio 9/28/22 Museo Egizio 9/28/22

New collection of amulets published online

The Museo Egizio recently published online a corpus of 1,927 amulets, magical objects used for the protection of those who possessed them.

Museo Egizio 9/27/22 Museo Egizio 9/27/22

The “Turin King List” restored

On the 200th anniversary of the deciphering of the hieroglyphs in 1822, the papyrus was completely restored thanks to the triad cooperation between Turin, Berlin, and Copenhagen