The Museo Egizio is a museum sited in the

Sforza Castle The Castello Sforzesco (Italian for "Sforza's Castle") is a medieval fortification located in Milan, northern Italy. It was built in the 15th century by Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan, on the remnants of a 14th-century fortification. Later reno ...

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

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. The Castle is one of the most famous monuments in Milan and is home to several museums including the Egyptian Section of the Milan Archaeological Museum, the

Museum of Ancient Art A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these i ...

, the

Pinacoteca A pinacotheca (Latin borrowing from grc, πινακοθήκη, pinakothēkē = grc, πίναξ, pinax, (painted) board, tablet, label=none + grc, θήκη, thēkē, box, chest, label=none) was a picture gallery in either ancient Greece or anc ...

and the Museum of Musical Instruments. The Egyptian Museum, situated in the underground level of the ducal courtyard, is divided into seven different sections: * ABOUT ANCIENT EGYPTIAN WRITING * ABOUT PHARAOHS * ABOUT DEITIES AND CULTS * ABOUT EVERYDAY LIFE FOR THE EGYPTIANS * ABOUT FUNERARY CULT * EXCAVATIONS CONDUCTED BY ACHILLE VOGLIANO * MUMMIES, SARCOPHAGI AND FUNERARY MASKS A mummy dating from the Greco-Roman period, from Thebes, and ancient Egyptian sarcophagi are exposed in the "mummies, sarcophagi and funerary mask" section, while some papyri of the ''

Book of the Dead The ''Book of the Dead'' ( egy, 𓂋𓏤𓈒𓈒𓈒𓏌𓏤𓉐𓂋𓏏𓂻𓅓𓉔𓂋𓅱𓇳𓏤, ''rw n(y)w prt m hrw(w)'') is an ancient Egyptian funerary text generally written on papyrus and used from the beginning of the New Kingdom ...

'' are exposed in the Funerary Cult section.

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File:1901 - Milano - Museo egizio - Libro dei morti (età tolemaica) - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto - 14-Feb-2008.jpg, Fragments of the

preserved in the museum. File:Castello museo egizio milano.jpg, One of the

mummies A mummy is a dead human or an animal whose soft tissues and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay furth ...

in the museum. File:2017 - Milano - Museo egizio - Stele funeraria (sec VII-IV a.C.) - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto - 14-Feb-2008.jpg, Funerary stele (7th-9th century BC). File:1815 - Milano - Museo egizio - Mummia di epoca grecoromana, daTebe - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto - 14-Feb-2008.jpg, Mummy of Greek-Roman era, from Thebes. File:Museo egisio milano 01.jpg,

Amenemhat III :''See Amenemhat, for other individuals with this name.'' Amenemhat III ( Ancient Egyptian: ''Ỉmn-m-hꜣt'' meaning 'Amun is at the forefront'), also known as Amenemhet III, was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt and the sixth king of the Twelfth Dy ...

(1842–1794 BC). File:Mummia di Ibis - epoca gerco romana - provenienza sconosciuta - Museo Egizio di Milano.JPG,

Ibis The ibises () (collective plural ibis; classical plurals ibides and ibes) are a group of long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, that inhabit wetlands, forests and plains. "Ibis" derives from the Latin and Ancient Greek word f ...

mummy, Greek-Roman era.

References

*https://web.archive.org/web/20120702005129/http://www.milanocastello.it/ing/visitaSotterraneoEgizia.html *Le città d'arte:Milano, Guide brevi Skira, ed.2008, eutori vari *Milano e provincia, Touring Club Italiano ed.2003, autori vari *

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