The Museo Egizio of Torino

Description

The Museo Egizio of Torino is the oldest museum in the world, entirely dedicated to nilotic civilization and is considered, by value and quantity of finds, the most important in the world after the Museum in Cairo. The Egyptian Museum (actually the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities) is made up of differents collections overlapping in time and of the finds of the excavations carried out in Egypt by the Archaeological Mission of Italy between 1900 and 1935. At that time the rule was that the archaeological finds were shared between Egypt and the archaeological missions. Now the rule says that finds must remain in Egypt.