{"id":54203,"date":"2016-02-03T15:34:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T14:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2016\/02\/lisbona-un-viaggio-nel-tempo-all-2\/"},"modified":"2016-02-03T15:34:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T14:34:25","slug":"lisbona-un-viaggio-nel-tempo-all-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2016\/02\/lisbona-un-viaggio-nel-tempo-all-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisbon \u2013 A journey through time at the IIC: Christian Greco illustrates Turin\u2019s renovated Egyptian Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The famed 19<sup>th<\/sup> century scholar and Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion, who largely relied on Turin&#8217;s collections to decipher hieroglyphs, once wrote: &#8220;The road to Memphis and Thebes passes through Turin&#8221;. The Egyptian Museum of Turin, the oldest Egyptian museum in the world and second only to Cairo&#8217;s in terms of importance, has recently been completely renovated. A conference dedicated to the new museum will be held at the Italian Institute of Culture in Lisbon on Thursday, February 4, at 7 p.m. Dr. Christian Greco, the museum&#8217;s director, will deliver the lecture, entitled &#8220;1824-2015: Museo Egizio. New Connections and Archaeological Contextualization&#8221;. The presentation will also feature pictures and slides and will be moderated by Prof. Rogerio Ferreira de Sousa. &#8220;At the beginning of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century, the Egyptian Museum of Turin was one of the main Egyptology centres in Europe, promoting projects and attracting scholars,&#8221; Dr. Greco noted. &#8220;Today, it must recoup this function: the key word &#8216;connections&#8217; highlights the continuity between the museum&#8217;s past and present.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The famed 19th century scholar and Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion, who largely relied on Turin&#8217;s collections to decipher hieroglyphs, once wrote: &#8220;The road to Memphis and Thebes passes through Turin&#8221;. The Egyptian Museum of Turin, the oldest Egyptian museum in the world and second only to Cairo&#8217;s in terms of importance, has recently been completely renovated. [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32,9],"class_list":["post-54203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-diplomazia-culturale","tag-europa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}