Ernesto Schiaparelli

Ernesto Schiaparelli (born the July 12th 1856 with Occhieppo Inferiore in current the Province of Biella (then Novare) in the Piedmont - died the February 14th 1928 with Turin) is a Archéologue and Egyptologist Italy N, which devoted its life to the ancient Egypt, and was senator at the end of his life.

Biography

Ernesto Schiaparelli belonged to a family of Universitaire S famous. His/her father Luigi Schiaparelli, Paleographer, taught the history with the Université of Turin. Giovanni Virgilio Schiaparelli was Astronome, Celestino Schiaparelli, specialist in the language and Arab civilization, Cesare Schiaparelli, pioneer of the Photographie, Carlo Felice Schiaparelli, Agronome and Giovanni Battista Schiaparelli, pioneer of the Chemical industry.

After studies in Turin with Francesco Rossi (1827 - 1912) and with Paris, with the Sorbonne, with Gaston Maspero (1846 - 1916) between 1877 and 1880, Ernesto Schiaparelli is named in 1881, director of the Egyptian section of the archaeological Museum of Florence, then superintendent of antiquities of Piedmont and finally, the September 30th 1894, person in charge of the collection of Egyptian antiquities of the museum of Turin, from which it will make the second of the world after that of the museum of Cairo .

In 1903, it creates the Italian archaeological Mission in Egypt, which it directs during seventeen years. It carried out twelve missions in Egypt among which:

Hemanieh : discovered of a predynastic necropolis as well as burials gréco - Roman and Copte S;
Gebelein : predynastic tombs, of which one contained a fabric on which human faces are painted;
Gizeh ;
Assiout ;
Aswan;
Hermopolis ;
Valley thebaine;
Héliopolis .

Of 1903 with 1906, it explores more than eighty tombs, all plundered, in the Vallée of the Queens. It discovers there, with Deir el-Médineh, in 1904, the splendid tomb of the queen Néfertari, the Grande royal wife of Ramsès {{II}}. He also discovers the burials of Khaemouas, Amonherkhépershef and Sethherkhépershef, wire of Ramsès {{III}} and that of Ahmosis, princess of.

Lastly, in 1906, it releases an intact burial, still sealed. It contained the coffins out of wooden of the royal architect Kha, who lived under the reign of Amenhotep {{II}}, and of his Mérit wife. Dried flowers still lay on the lids. After this splendid discovered, the Italian mission continues its excavations in Egypt until in 1937.

Too much occupied, Schiaparelli does not publish its work progressively; with its death in Turin in 1928, the reports/ratios which it leaves are too vague, and with him, disappear from much information on the sites, the objects and the context in which they were discovered. But it leaves behind him a well ground mission, remarkable discoveries, a study of the Livre of Dead the in three volumes and a rich museum of thousands of works.

Publications

Of the religious feeling of the Egyptians , 1877;
the book of the funeral of the former Egyptians , 3 vol., 1881-1890;
the Hypogean ones of Thèbes , 1889.

External bonds

Biography of Ernesto Schiaparelli on the site of the Senate of the Italian Republic

Site dedicated to Ernesto Schiaparelli

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