Treasures of The Pharaohs exhibited by Egypt in Rome for the first time
- Category: Inside the Vatican
Italy has several distinguished ancient Egyptian collections. The most important is The Egyptian Museum in Turin with artifacts from every period of ancient Egyptian history;
One sunny autumn afternoon cano Mount Vesuvius merupted, ejecting a cloud of poisonous gases and molten ashes some 20 miles into the sky before it buried the town of Pompei under some 20 feet of ash — killing over 2,000 of Pompei's 15.000 inhabitans
In April 1951, in Milan’s Palazzo Reale, the scholar Roberto Longhi curated the first exhibition in history dedicated to Caravaggio, whose name had been forgotten for over three centuries.
The Basilica of St. Mary Major was consecrated on August 5, 434, soon after the Second Council of Ephesus in 431, when an assembly of bishops affirmed the doctrine that Mary was the Mother of God. Thus, the Basilica is the first Marian sanctuary in the western world.
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