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)

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:

read more by clincking > (sorry, only italian version)

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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..

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