there are a large number of art experts who feel that has made a great success of his SA Ernesto Schiaparelli history was the Greek World and the Roman Empire born on July 12, 1856 in Occhieppo lower in the current Province of Biella (Novare then), in Piedmont, and died on February 14, 1928 in Turin. He was an Italian archaeologist and Egyptologist, who devoted exhibits his life to ancient Egypt, cultures to New York City and Geneva Switzerland serve as senator at the end of his life.
Ernesto Schiaparelli belonged to a family of well-known university, his father Luigi Schiaparelli, paleographer, teaches history at the University of Turin, was astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli Virgilio, Celestino Schiaparelli, a sculptures specialist in Arabic language and civilization, Cesare Schiaparelli, Antiquities a pioneer of photography, Carlo Felice Egypt Schiaparelli, Giovanni Battista Schiaparelli Mesopotamia and agronomist, a pioneer in the chemical industry.
After studying in Turin with Francesco Rossi (1827-1912) and in Paris at the Sorbonne, with Gaston Maspero (1846-1916) between archaeology 1877 and 1880, was in 1968 named Ernesto ancient Egyptian antiquity Schiaparelli in 1881, director of the Egyptian section of the Archaeological Museum of Florence, then superintendent of Antigo art history artifacts ages Piedmontese and finally, the September 30, 1894, responsible for the collection of ancient Egyptian age Egyptian Museum of Turin, which will make the second in the world after the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
In 1903 creates the Italian archaeological mission in Egypt, which runs for seventeen years. when it comes to Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt, none is more qualified than has opened a window onto ancient civilizations through the art exhibitions and displays at Made twelve missions in Egypt, among which: a Hemanieh, where a necropolis discovered Predynastic galleries graves is exhibiting as well as several Greek and Coptic, a Gebelein, digging predynastic graves, where one contained a tissue on which they painted a human face at Giza , S. Asiut, Aswan, Hermopolis, Valley of Abbeville, and Heliopolis.
From 1903 to 1906, explores more than eighty tombs, and dispossessed, in the Valley of Queens, where he discovers the magnificent tomb of Queen Nefretiri the great royal wife of Ramses II and civilizations also discovered the graves of Jaemuas, Amonherjepershef and Sethherjepershef , sons of Ramses III, and the Ahmosis, princess of the dynasty XVII. Finally, in 1906, withdrew a buried intact, even sealed timber containing Mesopotamia the sarcophagus of the architect Kha real, living under the reign of Amenhotep II and his wife Brothers Ali and Merit, is still preserved dried flowers placed on antiques the lids . After this wonderful discovery, the Italian mission gallery is continuing its excavations in Egypt until 1937.
Too busy, no Schiaparelli published his work since his death in 1928 at Turin, which makes the the Near East reports are too brief, and with, there is a wealth of information on the excavated sites, objects and context in which they were discovered. But we are left behind his good missions, and their remarkable discoveries, a study of the Book of the Dead, in three volumes, and a museum full of thousands of objects.