Turin’s Egyptian Museum sits in a city with its own Egyptian legend. A prince, the story goes, found that the Po reminded him of the Nile and settled on its banks. He worshipped Api, the bull god, and Torino would come from *toro*, the word for bull.

The bull is real enough. It’s one of Turin’s symbols. A relief of one sits outside a café on Piazza San Carlo, where stepping on it is said to bring good luck. The more usual explanation for the name is the Taurini, a Celtic tribe who lived here first.

The museum itself stands on Via Accademia delle Scienze and is the largest Egyptian museum in the world outside Cairo. VoiceMap’s tours tell the prince’s story as they pass its door, and leave you to weigh him against the Taurini.