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The Cairo Egyptian Musuem is filled with Ancient
Egyptian Artifacts. Currently they are rearranging and cataloguing to
move objects to other musuems such as the new one being built at the
Giza Pyramids. Still the Egyptian Museum is worth a full day or more
if you can afford the time.
The Egyptian Museum is located on a central
Cairo square, Tahir Square, and within walking distance of our hotel,
Shepheard's. The square is a central bus depot. Locals catch transport
and sell the tourists papyrus and trinkets when the opportunity arises.
The original museum was built in 1857, but
proved too small to hold the growing collections. Once proper export
controls were established and the professions of Egyptologist and Archeology
focused on researching the 4000 year old civilization, antiquities flowed
in. The museum was moved once to a palace, and finally the existing building
was constructed.

In the entrance
courtyard at the Cairo Egyptian Museum there is a shrine to the founders
of the museum and the sarcophagus of Auguste Mariette who first gathered
the vast collection together in 1858.
Here are some of the exhibits
of the Cairo Egyptian Museum. If you want to see items from the Tutankhamun
Gold Room, Click Here.
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| Cartonage Mummy
Funerary Mask. |
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Boatmen, Shabti
Figures from nobles tomb. |
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Statue of
Cheops, the builder of the Great Pyramid. |
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Ushabti from
tomb meant to serve the owner in the afterlife. |
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| Canopic jars, Man,
Baboon, Hawk and Jackal. |
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Pyramidion.
The cap stone of pyramids. |
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Akhenaten,
Amenhotep IV who changed his name and the capitol for his god, Aten. |
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4th Dynasty
High Priest Ranefer. |
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Chephren,
son of Cheops. |
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Mycerinus,
grandson of Cheops - Cairo Egyptian Museum. |
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| Hathor
Cow Shrine from cliffs above Deir el Bahri temple. |
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Votive
Palette from Old Kingdom |
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