Description
This Egyptian Museum Turin small group tour is semi-private: no more than nine guests per departure, to keep the experience personal. You meet your guide, enter on a skip-the-line ticket and spend about two hours in the galleries, in one language per group.
Exhibits are laid out in time order, running from the fourth century BC to the third century AD, and your guide builds the visit around a few highlights.
- The tomb of Kha, a builder of tombs for the pharaohs, dating to around 3,500 years ago
- Sarcophagi, statues and furniture, plus remarkably intact everyday goods, among them salted meat and a pottery bowl still holding traces of tamarind and grapes
- The Drovetti collection of papyrus sheets, regarded by some as the finest anywhere
The finale is the Ellesija temple, cut into rock more than 3,500 years ago for Pharaoh Tuthmosis III. The guide explains how it escaped the rising Nile and arrived in Italy in 1966.
The guide and the skip-the-line museum ticket are part of the booking; groups of more than six also get a headset. Tours run in English, French, Spanish and Italian.