Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Food

Grilled eggplants with mint

Stuffed tomatoes

Marinated sardines

Just a few pictures of some typical italian antipasti. These were made by one of my mother's friends who happens to be a really good cook. They were delicious!


Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Egyptian Museum




Reading hieroglyphics

Very very old bread


Eyes to see the river



Cats!

Crocodile


On the way to the museum

In 1824 the king of Italy Carlo Felice founds the Egyptian Museum in Turin with 5628 Egyptian artefacts gathered by Bernandino Droveretti. The museum is entirely dedicated to Egyptian art and artefacts. The visit begins in the black statue room. Here it's possible to see Sphinxes and imposing statutes against a dark background. The visits proceeds upstairs, where mummies and artefacts are kept in 19th century cases. One of my favorite exhibits has always been the mummified cats and animals.