Turin

Turin was the last stop on this amazing trip. These are a few of our pictures from Turin. We were only there for an afternoon and evening so we don't have a ton of pictures.

First, we went to the Egyptian Museum, which was under renovations, but was still awesome! As many of you know, I absolutely LOVE Egyptian archaeology so this was a real treat for me.

I believe this was either a statue of Amenhotep II or Thutmose II (can't really remember). The museum has a huge collection of statuary, largely from temples.

A sphinx statue, also from a temple.

An unidentified mummy. Very cool!

The museum is known for discovering the untouched tomb of Kha and Merit, which was on display in the museum. Kha was a wealthy architect who worked on a number of royal temples and tombs. Therefore, his tomb contained a wealthy of funerary objects, many in great condition. The next three pictures are from the tomb.

This is the funerary mask of Merit, his wife. This mask would be placed over the face of the mummy.

This is the sarcophagus of Kha. Wealthy people were usually buried in nested coffins. The outer sarcophagus would be a huge rectangular box that would contain a series of smaller inner coffins.

The last sarcophagus would be an anthropoid coffin, gilded with jewels and gold, and intricately painted. This is the inner sarcophagus of Kha, which held his mummified body.

After the Egyptian Museum, we walked by this castle before heading over to the Royal Palace.

We grabbed some pizza and headed back to our hotel for some pizza, wine, and packing.