On the occasion of the exhibition “Queens of Egypt” at the Pointe-à-Callière Museum, the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal is pleased to announce the conference “The village of Deir el-Medineh and the Schiaparelli excavations” by Christian Greco the director of the Egyptian Museum of Turin, which will be followed by the conference “The Valley of the Queens and the discovery of the tomb of Nefertari” by the curator Alessia Fassone of the Egyptian Museum in Turin.
Sunday April 8, 2pm
Pointe-à-Callière Museum
350 Place Royale, Montréal
Free admission – Discussion in Italian language
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Christian Greco is the Director of the Museo Egizio, Turin, since 2014. He led and directed the project of re-functionalization, the renewal of the exhibition and the exhibition path, completed March 31, 2015, which led to the transformation of the Museo Egizio, from antiquarian museum to archaeological museum.
Alessia Fassone is Curator in the Museo Egizio, Turin since 2014. Graduated in Egyptology at the University of Turin (MA), she also achieved the certificate of Specialization in Archeology (M.Phil.). She took part to a number of campaigns on archaeological excavations in Italy and in Egypt. For about ten years she has been a member of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Alexandria, Egypt, with an active role in the field activities, in the excavation and study of the archaeological materials of the sites of Bahrain and of Nelson Island (Alexandria – Egypt).
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