Egyptian museum in Cairo
The Egyptian museum in Cairo is one of the largest and the
most famous museums in the world and is located now in El-Tahrir square in the
down town of Egypt, it was created in 1835 in Azbakeya park and it was including
a large number of various monuments, then it was moved to the 2nd exhibition hall in Salah El-Din
citadel, until the French Egyptology scientist Auguste Mariette who was working in the
louver museum thought about creating a museum shows a group of the monuments on
the Nile in Boulak, and when this monuments was exposed to risk of Nile flood
it was moved to a private appendix in Palace of Khedive Ismail in Giza, then the
scientist of Egyptology Gaston Maspero opened the museum in 1902 During
the reign of Khedive Abbas Helmy II in the
current location in the down town of Cairo, the museum contains more over 150 thousand piece of
monuments and the most important of it the groups that was discovered in the
tombs of the kings and the Central footnote Royal family in Dahshour
in 1894, and now … the museum contains the largest group of monuments in the
world expressing all the intervals of the ancient Egyptian history... to be continued :)
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