Cairo, Egypt, Egyptian Museum at Cairo

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The current Egyptian Museum was completed in 1902.

Thothmes III

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Egyptian Museum as viewed across Tahir Square.

The museum is located on a central Cairo square and within walking distance of our hotel, Shepheard's. The square is a central bus depot. Locals catch transport and sell the tourists papyrus and trinkets when the opportunity arises.
	The original museum was built in 1857, but proved too small to hold the growing collections. Once proper export controls were established and the professions of Egyptologist and Archeology focused on researching the 4000 year old civilization, antiquities flowed in. The museum was moved once to a palace, and finally the existing building was constructed.
In the entrance courtyard there is a shrine to the founders of the museum and the sarcophagus of Auguste Mariette who first gathered the vast collection together in 1858.
	We visited the museum on four separate days, and still didn't see it all. There is a 300 page list of all the artifacts available at the ticket booth, and more useful guides which cover the museum room by room can be bought at the gift shop to the right of the entrance.

King Tut

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The museum is the home of most of the objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun. Click on the pictures below to see the objects from the Tutankhamun collection. Then move down the page for other museum objects.

		Tutankhamun's funerary mask. The mask is inlaid with semi precious stone, faience, and glass.
		Second and inner coffins. The inner coffin is solid gold and weighs 110 kg or 296 lbs Troy. The second coffin is wood covered in gold.
		The alabaster canopic chest from Tutankhamun's Tomb. The four heads used as stoppers for the compartments are Isis, Neith, Selkis and Nephthys. Also the canopic shrine with the sublime statues that guard it.
		The sarcophagus and the three nested inner coffins were surrounded by four nested gilded shrines inscribed with the Book of the Dead and other funerary spells.
		Tutankamun's throne. The throne shows Tutankamun and his wife Ankhesenamun under the benevolent rays of Aten.

Ebony statue that guarded the
entrance to the burial chamber
in Tutankhamun's tomb

Other Tutankhamun Artifacts

Click on items below to see other artifacts from the tomb.

Alabaster carvings (toy boat and lamp)
Jewelry from mummy and gold sandals
Anubis statue
Golden chariot
Statuette and Ushabti
Ebony Leopard
Childhood chair and footstool

Nefertiti

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Click on the thumbnails below to see other exhibits. Details

		Cartonage Mummy Funerary Mask.			Boatmen, Shabti Figures from nobles tomb.

		Statue of Cheops, the builder of the Great Pyramid. middle			Shabti from tomb meant to serve the owner in the afterlife.

		Canopic jars, Man, Baboon, Hawk and Jackal.			Pyramidion. The cap stone of pyramids.
		bottom
		Akhenaten, Amenhotep IV who changed his name and the capitol for his god, Aten.			4th Dynasty Scribe.

		Chephren, son of Cheops. last			Mycerinus, grandson of Cheops.

		Hathor Cow Shrine from cliffs above Deir el Bahri temple.			Votive Palette from Old Kingdom