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If you want to visit a museum in Cairo you
should choose the Egyptian Museum; this museum has the biggest
collection of Egyptian antiquities and is the most visited in
Egypt. The Egyptian Museum was built in 1858, from the order of
Khedive Abbass Helmi II, and opened in 1902. Initially the
museum was situated in Boulak; now its place is in the Cairo
Tahrir square. This amazing museum has a big library (42.500
books, periodicals, magazines, all of these in language like
Arabic, Dutch, French, English), 107 halls, 120, 000 exhibits,
27 imperial mummies, the tomb of Tutankhamum and the treasures
found inside his intact tomb, as well as the tombs of important
pharaohs. The Tutankhamun collection is made by 3500 of
artifacts, from which only 1700 are exposed in the museum, the
rest of them being kept in storerooms. The collection includes:
an ancient trumpet, the famous gold mask, a regal toilet chair,
the sarcophagus, jewelry and adornments. The visitors can also
see papyruses, Roman, Islamic, Egyptian and Greek coins,
monuments from the Roman and Greek periods as well as monuments
from the Middle, Old and Modern Kingdom, artifacts found in the
Valley of the Kings, objects found in the tombs of pharaohs
Ramses II, Hatshepsut, Amenophis II, Maherpen, Tuhtmosis III and
Tuhtmosis IV. The mommy room housing eleven royal mummies waits
for its visitors at the museum's second level where is also a
room with stuffed animals and birds. One of the Egyptian Museums
rules are that nobody can use a camera inside the museum, only
in the courtyard, which is not bad at all since this place is
filled with beautiful artifacts, too. So, have a great journey
through the history and civilization of Egypt visiting this
amazing museum in Cairo! |
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