Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Ancient Egyptian Museum

 Ancient Egyptian Museum

     Established Egyptian Museum a hundred years ago only (1902 m) and is known as the largest museum in the world featuring the Pharaonic civilization old ; Vtv Louvre or the British Museum in London more than three times almost , but does not include any of them civilization ancient Pharaonic , fitted with each other civilizations Assyrian, Greek and Egyptian Syrian and others.


                              Egyptian Museum from abroad

 A second important to this museum , it is the first museum in the world designed and implemented from the beginning to the museum performs the function of the opposite of what was popular in Europe from the conversion of palaces and houses of princes and nobles into museums.      This along with what join it museum collections archaeological unmatched in the world of civilization ancient Pharaonic , and model architect who won from among 73 design , developed by French engineer " Marcel Dornon " was built in the style of classical architecture Greek , Romanian, and not in the form of Egyptian temples or influenced by ancient Egyptian civilization , it does not contain any effects of ancient Egyptian art but in the design Hgrath or halls of the Interior ; Vmdkhal halls simulates the tomb of Egyptian temples , cabins mimic the Temple of Edfu .
 


                            Egyptian Museum from the inside

       The interface Museum is a French-style contracts circular, adorned with paintings marble of the most important and famous archaeologists in the world who spoke and discovered a lot about the Pharaonic civilization old, and on either side of the entrance door wooden statues senior from gravel to two women, Roman-style , but the heads of pharaohs .



                                  The contents of the museum from  the inside
        But despite the importance of this museum , it was no the museum is the first in Egypt , it has established Muhammad Ali the first museum in Egypt in 1835, area lockup (downtown Cairo ), and supervised by Sheikh Tahtawi , and prior to this date were foreign consulates in Egypt are sending Alatharalvraonyh ancient Egyptian to Europe and flourished trade Egyptian antiquities during the nineteenth century , but Tahtawi managed to pass a resolution to prevent smuggling and trafficking in Egyptian antiquities abroad , but the death of Muhammad Ali Pasha (1849 m) returned things back to the restored first , even if the Duke of France " Maxmilin " when users visit to Cairo effects that group were collected and admired , what was the Khedive Abbas I (and to Egypt at the time ), but he gave it without something to keep them , and ended is the first museum in Egypt.



                                  Columns Egyptian Museum

      Until he came to Egypt, " Auguste Mariette " (1821-1881) who sent the Louvre to buy manuscript Coptic from Egypt,but love Egypt and taking the discoveries archaeological important , and persuaded the officials establishment of the Authority for Antiquities and Museum , and has already established the museum in 1863 , but he was subjected to flooding of the Nile and lost some of its collections discovered at that time , even been thinking about the establishment of the Egyptian Museum after that.

Egyptian Museum Video


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       Egyptian Museum has many secrets of the ancient Pharaonic civilization , according to information confirmed by museum officials , according to their importance or the amount available, and respect to the first part the effects of King Tutankhamun , while the second section singled out the effects of ancient Egypt , and the third with the effects of the Middle Kingdom.
      While section IV singled out the effects of modern Egypt is the period of Ramses II and Tutankhamun, Akhenaten Merneptah and and Thutmose « , The section V Vahtoy the effects start of the twenty - first family until the thirty -family, while the sixth section of the papyri and currency.



                             Egyptian Museum from behind

        Where there is one of the halls of the museum ten statues dating back to the Middle Kingdom , including a statue of King » Snosert « first one of the Twelfth Dynasty, as well as statues of each of the King » Amenemhat , Djoser, Khufu / Khafre / Menkaure , as well as statues of Amenemhat I / II / III who belong to the family of twelve , and other statues of Hatshepsut / Thutmose III of the eighteenth Dynasty .

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