Museum of Ancient Egyptian Civilization


Egypt Museum

Egyptian Museum

About the Museum

Egyptian Antiquities Service was established in 15/8/1835 and established the first museum for the conservation of Egyptian antiquities in Cairo in a small building in the garden of Uzbek and then transferred to the effects of Saladin's Citadel, and then donated to the Khedive Abbas, Crown Prince of Austria in 1855.


In 1858 established "Marept" and was director of the effects of another small museum on the shore of the Nile in Bulaq effects and then transferred again to Giza in 1891.
Work began on the current museum was opened in 1897 in 15/11/1902 in the era of Khedive "Abbas Hilmi II," the museum building was designed by French architect Marcel Role of N-style neo-classic and used concrete for the first time in construction in Egypt.


Composition of the museum:
Two-storey main and take into account in a hall ease traffic and there are now about the museum: 160 A, the effect of different ages.
And displays the effects in the basement where there are large stone arranged historically, beginning as the entrance and left clockwise, we find there are some effects of pre-dynastic and Early Dynastic and raised in the Old Kingdom and the State Central and the modern state and the Late Period and Greco-Roman period.
The upper floor Exposure which groups the quality of the idols, manuscripts and royal mummies and coffins, jewelry and wooden packages from the tomb of one such as the effects of Tutankhamun and raised Youssoia and Thwaia and the effects of Tanis and the effects of the Valley of Kings and the effects and the effects of Sndjem Cemetery Mager Cemetery Road .. There is the museum includes a large library of books by archeology and history, civilizations and religions, different languages and there is also a section for photography and some maps make it easier for visitors to follow the effects of numbers and the halls in the museum in the maps attached to the top role

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