famous Egyptian Museum in Turin flooded. As the representatives of the museum, due to the accumulation of ice during the recent cold weather cracked sprinkler pipe for fire water supply. From it flowed the water, which flooded the top floor, and then infiltrated into the lower floors. "Now, all of the museum premises are safe, no harm no", - says the official statement of the museum.

leak was quickly contained, but some particularly valuable and fragile exhibits of the museum staff at every case moved to a safe place. These include Royal canon (papyrus with a list of rulers of Egypt) and a statue made of limestone, dating from the period III - IV dynasty. All items will be returned to the place once in the halls by the normal humidity.

Yesterday, the museum was closed, so that representatives of the fire service carried out the necessary verification.

in the Egyptian Museum in Turin is kept the second-largest after the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, a collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts. The museum is one of the main attractions of Turin, it is visited annually about half a million people.

Material prepared Ekaterina Guseva, AI

Sources: ansa.it , artinvestment.ru