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Antiquities in Egypt is divided into several historic relay is in (the ancient Egyptian, Coptic, Islamic Modern)

Of the most important ancient Egyptian Antiquities:

located in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo's central Tahrir area and contains the largest collection of ancient Egypt effects, though the British Museum and the Louvre in competition.

The Egyptian Museum was established in 1906, and the museum gallery contains 136 A Pharaonic impact, in addition to the hundreds of thousands of effects in its stores.

The story of the emergence of the

Egyptian Museum:

After deciphering the Rosetta Stone at the hands of French scholar Champollion disease global interest in Egyptian archeology and necessary to maintain them where Muhammad Ali Pasha ordered the registration of Egyptian antiquities and the transfer of fixed effects value to the lockup and the Museum in 1835.

But after the death of Muhammad Ali returned to steal again effects and his successors marched on approach Go I said, museum collections, and in 1878 flooding of the Nile was the highest on record, causing flooding Bulaq Museum and the loss of some of its contents.

At Maspero took over management of the museum and the adult in his interest in the museum and then the transfer of all holdings Bulaq Museum to Tahrir Square and the foundations of the Egyptian Museum

Egyptian Museum

Architectural Design of the Egyptian Museum:

The museum consists of two floors devoted ground them for the effects of heavy (such as coffins and stone statues, paintings and wall reliefs) The upper has been allocated to the effects of light (such as manuscripts, statues of the gods, royal mummies, the effects of daily life, images mummies, sculptures incomplete, statues, pots Greco Roman and the effects of other private beliefs of life), as well as complete sets (such as group Tutankhamun).

The most important collection of the Egyptian Museum: