Heinrich Menu von Minutoli
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Johann Heinrich Karl Menu, as of 1820 Freiherr Menu von Minutoli, was a Prussian Generalleutnant, explorer and archaeologist.
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Portrait, c. 1786
Egyptian Museum of Berlin
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The Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of Berlin is home to one of the world's most important collections of ancient Egyptian artefacts, including the Nefertiti Bust. Since 1855, the collection is
Heinrich Menu von Minutoli
…collections, of which a large part was lost in a shipwreck, were purchased by the king of Prussia for 22,000 talers and formed the foundation of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. Minutoli was appointed a member of the academy of the sciences, and soon retired (with the rank of Generalleutnant) to his vast estate in…
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Nefertiti Bust
Egyptian courtyard at the Neues Museum, lithograph by Eduard Gaertner (1862)
Kalabsha Gate, from the Temple of Kalabsha, donated as part of the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia