The Egyptian Museum in Cairo

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The Egyptian Museum in Cairo comprises 120000 artifacts, most impotrant collection which were found in the kings' tombs, Giza, Dahshur, and the important and famous collections:- Tutankhamun, Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, Akhenaten, & Yuya and Tuya. The original collection was exhibited in Bulaq, then in 1891 the artifacts were transferred to the palace of Isma'il pasha in Giza and finally they were kept in the current building in Tahrir Square

  • the seated scribe, one of the most important jobs during Ancient Egypt, he used to record everything and know all the secrets of the royal palace
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  • The mask of king Tutankhamun; masterpiece of the museum, shows the graceful art and the high skills of the artist, made of gold
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  • Overall view for the main hall of the Egyptian museum, where we can see the statue of Amenhotep III and his wife Tiye
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  • Seneb and his wife Senet, it is a group statue "family", where we can see their childern under the feet of Seneb.
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  • The facade of the Egyptian museum & the pond with the the papyrus plant
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  • In this statue, we can notice important thing, a mirror was added, in order to see the depiction of the goddess on the other side of the statue.
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  • Statue of Khafre, we can see the muscles obviously.
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  • Ka-aper statue "Skeikh al-Bald"
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  • Monthuhotep II
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  • Head of Queen Hatshepsut, the fine art
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  • The shrine of Hathor.
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  • Akhenaten, here is one of the most wonderful halls of the museum.
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  • Solar boat.
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  • Some of Tutankhamun objects, here we can see the ceremonial chariot.
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  • A mummy.
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  • Yuya coffin.
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  • Anubis statue, god of mummification and protector of the tomb.
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  • Ramses III with goddess Horus & Seth.
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Anubis statue, god of mummification and protector of the tomb best photo I've seen so far, we need more lol, check my blog for photos taken from the british museum i have similar egypt pieces