Exhibition: “Ippolito Rosellini and the Dawn of Egyptology”

From 1828-29, a Franco-Tuscan team of artists, architects, engineers and naturalists was sent to Egypt on an expedition headed by French Egyptologist and decipherer of hieroglyphs Jean-Francois Champollion, in collaboration with Italian Ippolito Rossellini.

Nearly 1,400 drawings and watercolors of ancient Egyptian scenes from monuments across Egypt exist in a portfolio prepared by the expedition and currently housed at the Library of the University of Pisa.

For the first time, this priceless collection of copies from original paintings and bas-reliefs, many of them now deteriorated or missing, will be exhibited in Cairo from January 26 to the end of February.

Source: ANSAmed

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