Egyptian - Italian Page
It' s me a few years ago, in Fontana di Trevi. See me happy: i enjoied Rome (so there' s my coin inside the fountain!). What about Ancient Egypt and Rome? (Click here) |
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Hi, my name's Gabriela, i was born in 1986, December 6th and i'm very interested in old Egypt's history, art and monuments.
I learned about it in books and documentaries; i also visited many european egyptian museums and exibitions, but i never was in Egypt (sigh! sob!)
If you want to see my secret dream, you need an amulet against pharaoh's curse: wait for it, then click!
Let me address you to the most important collection of old egyptian art we've in Italy, very rich in objects and worldwide famous:
Turin, Museo Egizio
As a girl, i like the women's freedom and social status in ancient Egypt:
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Rome,
egyptian & roman -egyptyan collections and monuments:
Musei Vaticani, Egyptian section: Museo Gregoriano Egizio (very interesting also for the "egyptian-roman art": copies of old egyptian statues, many of them done for the Roman Emperor Adrian),
Museo Capitolino, on Campidoglio, oriental cults and monuments section,
obelisk "Lateranense", S. Giovanni in Laterano" square, from Ammon Temple of Thebe, 1400 b. C.,
obelisk "Flaminio" in the middle of Piazza del Popolo (1200 b. C.),
obelisk "Vaticano" in the middle of Piazza S. Pietro,
obelisk in fountain "Dei Fiumi" in Piazza Navona,
obelisk in fountain "Di Montecavallo" in front of Quirinale Palace,
pyramid of Caio Cestio (roman governor of Egypt) I°cent. b. C..