Poem Art and Egyptian culture - Torino

Along the fertile banks of the Nile in Africa developed the Egyptian civilization, which lasted for about 2,000 years. During the great period of time underwent some changes and why is compared by historians to at least 4 reference periods: ancient kingdom 3000-2040 BC, average kingdom 2040-1540 BC, new realm 1540-1070 BC and late age 1070-343 BC It was formed with a deeply agricultural society perhaps due to the effect aggregator of management of works related to the drainage of waters of the Nile. Soon he came to establish an organizational authority and to form the first "state" of history constituted by ' Upper Egypt site in the southern part of the valley and the Lower Egypt site at the river delta , both under one ruler.

the Egyptian Museum in Turin

the Egyptian Museum in Turin is the most important and oldest museum Egyptian in the world after Cairo. Contains artifacts collected by Bernardino Drovetti during the nineteenth century, those of the House of Savoy and the findings made personally by the director of the museum Ernesto Schiaparelli at the beginning of the twentieth century. In 2013 he entered the top 50 museums in the world for "The Times" in 2014 and now ranks among the top ten most visited Italian sites. In 2015 it was re-opened after some work to expand and now has a route divided over four floors. also features numerous improvements regarding the presentation of the findings, the integrated support with descriptive audio guides and the chronological-thematic organization, proving to be a museum behind the times.

Rime Poetry Narrative

 Eh, if two thousand and two thousand years
still loves you,
my love could be
only one copy of millions more,
but now she kisses you, you caress now
in the past existence future.

Umberto F. M. Cefalà
 
 

findings

Among the finds kept in the museum Torino there are the statues with the aim" commemorative "-religious and above all there are the everyday objects. The latter, perhaps less relevant to reconstruct the alternation of rulers and evolutionary periods, however, they are invaluable in knowing everyday life. From food to clothing they have come down to us by revealing much information. So now we know the most frequently consumed foods: wheat, barley, sesame, garlic, beans, lentils, onions, figs, dates, pomegranates and grapes. While clothing as the men worked to a skirt and boots to sandal with leather thongs, for long tunics women members of cloth pleated on the bust sleeveless. For the population of course they used less valuable clothes, simple pants, and sometimes none. Especially male children were mostly bare. Apart from these details for us perhaps not conceivable the Egyptian civilization was overall very evolved. Just think that you were using oils, perfumes and dyes to hide white hair as is customary in our modern society. Eh what about the numerous and various tricks of the women sometimes kept in the toilet already 4,000 years ago!

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