The Egyptian Museum is one of the most famous museums in the world, and it is the most worth visiting place in Egypt besides the pyramids. The museum houses more than 300,000 artifacts, with more than 60,000 exhibits, covering prehistoric times, Egypt's Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom period, and a large number of artifacts from the Greek and Roman periods, including the gold masks and funerary objects of the famous Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, as well as the mummies of the pharaohs of past generations. Since seeing this museum, when you go to other museums, you can basically skip the Egyptian part, because the essence of ancient Egypt is basically here.
Opposite the Egyptian Museum is the famous "The Ritz-Carlton" hotel in Cairo
The museum is a brick-red stone building with many sculptures in the square in front of it, the most striking of which is a sphinx.
After a simple security check, we enter the museum and those who want to bring the camera in have to buy a ticket for the camera for 50 Egyptian pounds.
Due to the large number of cultural relics, they are placed very compactly.
The ceiling of the museum has glass to allow lighting
Humans have lived in the Nile river area more than 9,000 years ago, and ancient Egyptians have begun to use bronze ware 7,500 years ago. There are 31 dynasties in Egyptian history, which can be divided into archaic, classical, imperial and Hellenistic eras, and each era has a different period division, which is more complex. The greatest of the Egyptian Empire was the New Kingdom period, 1567-1085 BC, about 3000 to 3500 years ago, and the pyramid period, which is even earlier, the Old Kingdom period of Egypt, dating back about 5,000 years.
The museum displays a large number of sculptures from various dynasties of ancient Egypt
Of course, the most attractive thing in the Egyptian Museum is the golden mask and funerary items of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, and the golden mask exhibition hall cannot be photographed, only a photo can be posted from the Internet. Tutankhamun was a pharaoh of the New Kingdom of Egypt (about 3300 years ago), who was only 19 years old when he died, but he is the most famous pharaoh in Egyptian history, because his mausoleum has never been stolen for more than 3,000 years, and was discovered and excavated by British archaeologists about a hundred years ago, in which a large number of treasures have been unearthed, including this golden mask, which is amazingly exquisite!
This image shows the condition of the Tutankhamun Mausoleum at the time of excavation and the burial items that accompanied it
The golden coffin of this pharaoh is delicate and delicate.
This is the jade coffin in which the mummy is made to store its internal organs
Tutankhamun's burial - a fan from more than three thousand years ago, the feathers are still clearly visible.
Tutankhamun's golden throne, in front of which there are two lions, the back of the seat is exquisitely carved and studded with various gems, and the costumes of the pharaohs and queens are gorgeous, which is a treasure from more than 3300 years ago, when the life of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs had reached such a luxurious and exquisite point!
There are also many mummies in the museum, usually there is a coffin outside the mummy, made according to the image of the deceased.
The mummy is silently placed on the side of the cloister, which shows the sheer number of artifacts in the Egyptian Museum.
There are all kinds of sarcophagus, and what impressed me more is the colorful paintings inside the sarcophagus.
The sculptures of thousands of years ago are as colorful as new, and I have to admire the wisdom of the ancient Egyptians, I don't know what pigments were used to resist thousands of years of time, and they will not fade after excavation. [Like]
Portraits of scriveners with pens and scrolls crossed in their legs (2500 BC), they were one of the few people in ancient Egypt who mastered the written language.
This wood carving is also a treasure of the Egyptian Museum
Please pay attention to his eyes, inlaid with quartz stone, which looks lifelike, and if you hit the flashlight when robbing the tomb, these eyes will be scared to death! [Laughs]
This is also a famous treasure of the Egyptian Museum - prince lahotep and princess Novlet, painted limestone sculpture around 2500 BC.
The highlight is still the eyes!
This is the statue of the king of Menkara, the inverted triangle of the pharaoh and goddess, the bodybuilding figure, is not very enviable!
Speaking of the Queen of Egypt, the most well-known is Cleopatra, the last queen of the Ptolemaic dynasty, Cleopatra, but the following queen is the first queen in Egyptian history, her name is Hatshepsut, more than a thousand years before Cleopatra, known as the Egyptian Wu Zetian. Ancient Egyptian women could not be kings, so this Hatshepsut could only dress as a man and wear a false beard, and her sculptures could only appear in male figures.
Look at the details of the face
This is the true face of Queen Hatshepsut, and her facial features are very beautiful.
Take a frontal photo
This is a sculpture of Khufu, which is too small and inconspicuous compared to other treasures. Khufu was the pharaoh who built the largest pyramid, and it is ironic that the only sculpture he has ever found is smaller than anyone else.'"
sphinx
There are also countless treasures in the museum
Beautifully appointed tatami
Look at the details, this is a relic from thousands of years ago!
Various thrones
The shoes worn by the ancient Egyptians
Ceramic fragments
Beautifully decorated
A wide variety of murals, brightly colored as ever.
This is the famous "papyrus", which the ancient Egyptians used to write and paint, it is made from the stems of papyrus from the Nile Delta, which can not rot for thousands of years in dry environments.
The museum exhibits a number of papyrus paintings with hieroglyphs on them.
The painting depicts a person's good and evil in life that leads to whether he goes to heaven or hell after death
Brightly colored papyrus paintings
Due to the length of the article, there are still many treasure photos that cannot be attached. Visiting the Egyptian Museum gave me a great shock, before I came, I had no idea that human civilization had reached such a height in such an ancient period, which was breathtaking! [Like] [Like] [Like]