Tourist attractions of the Egyptian Museum

Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Contains the largest collection of ancient monuments in Egypt, and competed the British Museum and the Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum (New York). Lies and the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square the heart of Cairo since 1906, contains a museum exhibit on the impact of Pharaonic 136 thousand, in addition to hundreds of thousands of effects found in warehouses.

The emergence and establishment of the museum Story began with the establishment of the museum world's attention the great Egyptologist after deciphering the Rosetta Stone at the hands of French scientist Champollion. The initial nucleus of the museum at the small house in a pond where the old Uzbek was Muhammad Ali Pasha, Egyptian antiquities registration and transfer of fixed effects the value of the Uzbek Museum in 1848.
After the death of Muhammad Ali returned the theft of antiquities again and walked to his successors approach dedications Vtdhaelt the museum's holdings. In 1858 was appointed (Mariette) as the first officer (the occupancy of Antiquities) any (corresponds to what is currently the President of the Egyptian Antiquities Service). It was found that to be the presence of management and the Museum of the effects, therefore, the selection of the Bulaq to create a museum of Egyptian antiquities and the transfer of the antiquities found during Hvairh (such as the effects cemetery Iah Hotep).

    * In 1863 the Khedive Ismail, the adoption of the project to establish a museum of Egyptian antiquities, but project was not implemented, but contented himself with giving Mariette (en digit) in front of Alontekkhanp in Bulaq to expand the museum.
    * In 1878 occurred in very high Nile flood, which caused flooding in Bulaq Museum and the loss of some of its contents.
    * In 1881 the museum reopened in the same year he died and was succeeded by Mariette (Maspero) as Director of Antiquities and Museum.
    * In 1891 and increased when groups Bulaq Museum was transferred to Galatasaray Giza.
    * When it came to the world (de Morgan) as interest, the museum has re-coordination of these groups in the new museum, known as the Museum of Giza.
    * In the period from 1897 - 1899 CE, it says Loret Loret successor at Morgan.
    Q: But he returned Maspero once again manages to interest and Museum from 1899 - 1914 m, in 1902 the transfer of impacts to the existing building to the museum (in the field of editing) and it was more his activity in the period of his second world, Egyptian Ahmed Pasha Kamal, who was the first specialty in the effects Ancient Egyptian and worked for many years in the museum.
    * The first Egyptian director of the museum was as a (Mahmoud Hamza) was appointed in 1950.
    * This was a brief guide to the museum of the development is due to Maspero in 1883 but he has done a great guide to the museum under the new prints and repeats of 1915 and so far (but with a set of amendments

The most important museum collections
The museum consists of two floors devoted to the ground, including the effects of the heavy top has been allocated for the effects of light and complete sets (such as the Group of Tutankhamun).

    * The museum houses a huge number of Egyptian antiquities from prehistoric times until the end of the Pharaonic era in addition to some of the effects of Greek and Romanian, including:

   1. A set of crockery (from prehistoric times).
   2. Narmer Palette (the era of unification).
   3. Statue Khasekhem (family 2).
   4. Statue of Djoser (family 3).
   5. Statues of Khufu / Khafre / Menkaure (family 4).
   6. Statue aper / servants (family 5).
   7. Dwarf statue SNP (family 6).
   8. Statue of Mentuhotep Nebhepetre (family 11).
   9. Statues of Amenemhat I / II / III (family 12).
  10. Ka Statue of King Hor (family 13).
  11. Statues of Hatshepsut / Tuthmosis III (family 18).
  12. Group of Tutankhamun (family 18).
  13. Treasures of Tanis Group .... Etc..
  14. A wide range of Almmyat Mokhtlav of the ages. 

Sections of the museum

Divided according to their importance or effects the amount of available Kalksm sixth and seventh, while the arrangements II and III and IV were based on chronological order and taken into account include the most important relics in the Department and other key periods in another section, and as follows: [1]:

     * Section I: The king, Tutankhamun is the outcome of the discovery of a cemetery and one for the same period of time amounted to effects of more than 3500 pieces of antique gold in addition to the mummies.
     * Section II: the old state, one of the prosperous periods in the history of ancient Egypt, a period building the pyramids and the period of King Khufu, a period which the rule of four families governor "of the third-sixth. "
     * Section III: Central State.
     * Section IV: the modern state, a period that the great empire of Ramses II and Tutankhamun and Merneptah and Akhenaten and Tuthmosis
     * Part V: of the family "21 to 30" any access to the entry of Alexander the Great to Egypt.
     * Section VI: Department of papyrus and the currency, which were collected in which all papyri.
     * Section VII: Section "scarabs

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