Museum reopens after overhaul

Huge black and gold sarcophaguses with kohl-rimmed eyes dwarf visitors at Turin's palatial Egyptian museum, which is reopening to the public after a "pharaonic" five-year renovation.

Now visitors donning 3-D glasses in the museum in northern Italy will be able to explore a reconstruction of the tomb of Queen Nefertari, Ramesses the Great's favorite wife, as well as that of another tomb and a cult chapel, like early 20th-century explorers.

The red brick building in the heart of Turin's historic center, built as a Jesuit school in the 17th century, has undergone a 50 million euro ($53.8 million) makeover that has doubled its exhibition space to 12,000 square meters.