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13-431: Erected in 1892, it was first built in a five-room apartment, inside one small building on Rosetta Street (later Avenue Canope and now Horriya). In 1895, it was transferred to another, larger building near Gamal Abdul Nasser Street. Its first director was Giuseppe Botti . From 1904 to 1932 he was followed by Evaristo Breccia and then Achille Adriani. The museum was inaugurated in 1895 by Khedive Abbas II . The museum edited

26-548: A historic building whose beautiful neoclassical facade of six columns and pediment bears the large Greek inscription ‘MOYΣEION’ ("MOUSEION"). The museum consists of 27 halls and an attractive garden, which offer an excellent introduction to Egypt's Greco-Roman period. The museum was closed for renovations in 2005. In February 2022 the Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mostafa Waziri , said that

39-610: A museum in Egypt is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Evaristo Breccia Annibale Evaristo Breccia (18 July 1876, Offagna - 28 July 1967, Rome ) was an Italian egyptologist , the second director of the Greco-Roman Museum of Alexandria and rector of the University of Pisa . He was born in Offagna to Cesare Breccia and Angela Gatti. He graduated in 1900 from

52-408: A number of sites including Alexandria , Giza , Hermopolis , Fayum , Middle Egypt , Oxyrhynchus , El Hiba , Antinoe and Cyrene . He excavated until 1937 when a serious illness forced him to give up his excavations, that were continued by Sergio Donadoni . In 1933 he was appointed professor of Greek and Roman history at the University of Pisa and between 29 October 1939 and 28 October 1941 he

65-557: Is the product of donations from wealthy Alexandrians as well as of excavations led by successive directors of the institution, both within the town and in its environs. Certain other objects have come from the Organization of Antiquities at Cairo (particularly those of the Pharaonic period) and from various digs undertaken at the beginning of the century in Fayoum and at Benhasa. Housed within

78-644: The Bulletin of the Alexandria Archaeological Society . The museum contains several pieces dating from the Greco-Roman ( Ptolemaic ) era in the 3rd century BC, such as a sculpture of Apis in black granite , the sacred bull of the Egyptians, mummies , sarcophagus , tapestries , and other objects offering a view of Greco-Roman civilization in contact with ancient Egypt . The museum's collection

91-634: The University of Rome with a degree on ancient history. Breccia founded in 1893, together with other scholars, the Archaeological Society of Alexandria. From 1 April 1904 to 29 October 1932 he was the director of the Greco-Roman Museum of Alexandria where he succeeded Giuseppe Botti. He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei . In 1903 he excavated in Hermopolis Magna under Ernesto Schiaparelli . Additionally, he conducted excavations in

104-527: The archaeologist Evaristo Breccia . In 1938 he was a student of Hermann Junker at Cairo . During the war, from 1938 to 1940, he joined the excavation of the Middle Kingdom temple of Medinet Madi led by Achille Vogliano . At the end of the 1940s he returned to Italy and started teaching at the University of Pisa , and later at the Sapienza University of Rome . In the late 1950s Donadoni

117-404: The museum would be opened within a few months. On 11 October 2023, Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly attended the reopening of the museum, following 18 years of renovations. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Greco-Roman_Museum,_Alexandria 31°11′57″N 29°54′25″E  /  31.199259°N 29.906872°E  / 31.199259; 29.906872 This article about

130-597: The others, since 1973 he excavated at Jebel Barkal . He also excavated the 26th Dynasty tomb TT27 at Thebes which belonged to Shoshenq, chief steward of the Divine Adoratrice Ankhnesneferibre . A remarkable work by Sergio Donadoni is The Egyptians , first published in English in 1997. Later in his life, Donadoni became Professor emeritus at the Sapienza University; he also was a member of

143-624: Was an Italian archaeologist who worked in the disciple of Egyptology . Born in 1914 in Palermo , he was fascinated by the ancient Egypt since childhood, with a particular interest on the Greco-Roman period . In 1931 he enrolled the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and later he moved to France and studied under Gustave Lefebvre , Alexandre Moret and Étienne Drioton . Donadoni then moved to Egypt, and since 1935 he participated to an excavation campaign at Antinoopolis led by his teacher,

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156-610: Was invited to join the team of archaeologists that operated the relocation of the Abu Simbel temples in Nubia due to the construction of the Aswan High Dam and the subsequent formation of Lake Nasser . Among his students at this time, notable were Edda Bresciani , and Anna Maria Roveri who later became his wife. His later, several excavations and studies are mostly concentrated in Nubia; among

169-703: Was the rector of the University. He is well known for his guides of Alexandria and the Greco-Roman Museum. In 28 July 1967 Breccia died by suicide in Rome. After his death his wife, Paolina Salluzzi, donated his archive to the University of Pisa. The archive includes his correspondence, his manuscripts such as notes, publication projects, excavation reports and photographs, drawings of monuments and finds, and photographic plates. Sergio Donadoni Fabrizio Sergio Donadoni OMRI (13 October 1914 – 31 October 2015)

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