The Egyptian Museum

The Egyptian museum located in Tahrir Square, houses an unbelievable exhibit over 120,000 artefacts, which depicting ancient Egypt's glorious reign. Mummies, sarcophagus, pottery, jewellery and of course King Tutankhamun's treasures, this vast heritage is revealed in all its unparalleled glory hundreds of magnificent full-color photographs with special lighting techniques.

Egyptian museum founded in the 19th century by the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, to halt the plundering of archaeological sites and to arrange the exhibition of the collected artifacts, The Azbakian garden in Cairo was first used as a storage place for these artifacts, a museum was prepared at Boulaq, then transferred to an annex of the Giza palace of Ismail pasha, The present museum was built in 1900, in the neoclassical style by the French architect Marcel Dourgnon

Cairo museum comprises many sections arranged in chronological, also consists of two floors, the ground floor that hosts the heavier displays like coffins, huge statues, and stone carvings, and the sarcophagus of Queen Hetepheres, The upper floor houses small statues, jewels, the legendary treasures of Tutankhamun and a hall for the royal mummies, housing eleven kings and queens, and halls of the mummified animals.

Tutankhamun's tomb contains four gilded shrines nested one inside the other, All four of these shrines are displayed in the museum, lined up in order of decreasing size, Inside the stone sarcophagus were three coffins being made of 110 kilograms of solid gold, Inside that the pharaoh Tut Ankh Amun was wearing the famous gold mask.

On the ground floor there is artificial lake that has some of the lotus and the papyrus plants, the most important plants for the ancient Egyptians symbolizing to Upper and Lower Egypt.

Till today we are still charming with the glittering treasures from the tomb of King Tut Ankh Amun and the sublime reliefs in New Kingdom tombs and old kingdom, the secrets of pharaohs are endless.