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| Second stop Cairo |
[Cairo Museum]
On the Liberation Square in Cairo, an ancient red double-storey brick and stone building is very conspicuous, that is the Cairo Museum in Egypt. Maybe many friends have visited the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Louvre in Paris, but you have also listed the Cairo Museum as an inspection plan but it is temporarily stranded.
So this season, please follow us into this museum and get a glimpse of the truth.
Egypt Cairo Museum was designed and built by Mariet, a famous French archaeologist who was known by the Egyptians as the "father of Egyptian museums", in 1863 in Bula, northern Cairo. Located on the east bank of the Nile River, near the Liberation Square in the heart of Cairo, near the Nile Hilton Hotel, it is one of the most famous museums in the world. It was built in 1881 and has more than 300,000 cultural relics in its collection, and only about 63,000 of them are on display. But its collections range from prehistoric times to ancient, medieval, imperial times, and even Greek and Roman artworks. It includes huge stone statues of Egyptian pharaohs and gilded vehicles of the pharaohs, including prehistoric pottery and stone tools, as well as various artworks carefully produced by ancient artists, as well as papyrus documents recording ancient Egyptian science, literature, history, law, etc. You can also see mummies made thousands of years ago, lying in a coffin inlaid with gold and gems, still maintaining their original appearance.
This is also the center of the huge changes in Egypt several months ago. Two government buildings on the Nile River were burned out of recognition in the turmoil, and the Egyptian Museum, separated by a wall, has welcomed tourists waiting in line to visit. The stolen cultural relics are being retrieved one after another, but fortunately, the treasures of the town are still in their original positions. In August 2015, the Egyptian government planned to open a new museum near the pyramid, and exhibited all 80,000 pieces of cultural relics currently in the warehouse, including 120,000.
museum 2 is planted in front of the museum. Lotus represents Upper Egypt, and papyrus represents Lower Egypt. Papyrus is a material used in ancient Egypt to make paper. If you write words and draw patterns, you will find papyrus documents and papyrus paintings. Can be washed, not afraid of water. The design of the museum incorporates the characteristics of ancient Egyptian art: the outer contour of the gate is a circular arch, and there is a relief in each of the niches on both sides of the arch that European-styled the image of the pharaoh. One of them holds papyrus, which is the material written in ancient Egypt, and the other easily picks up the "national flower" of Egypt - lotus, which symbolizes ancient Lower and Upper Egypt respectively. Directly opposite the gate of
is a small Sphinx stone statue, and behind it is the Ramses Station statue. Directly above the gate of
is the beautiful divine stone sculpture.
on the left is the God of Isis.
on the right side is the God of Isis closed. The roof line on the left side of
shows that the Cairo Museum started construction in 1897 and the roof line on the right side was displayed to its completion in 1901. The construction process took 4 years and opened in 1902. The museum itself has a history of 109 years.
stepped into the main building of the museum, and a heavy breath mixed with historical storms came to my face. The stone tablet version of the ancient Egypt map was fully displayed on the right side of the museum. However, given that the museum prohibits shooting of collections, it was necessary to provide an overview of the map of Egypt's traditional handicraft papyrus.
Because the Egyptian Museum mainly collects cultural relics from the Pharaoh period, the Egyptians used to call it the "Pharaoh Museum". The museum displays more than 300,000 rare ancient cultural relics.The collection has everything from prehistoric times to ancient, medieval, imperial times, and even Greek and Roman artworks, including huge stone statues and gilded vehicles of Egyptian pharaohs, prehistoric pottery, stone tools and mummies made thousands of years ago, the rare treasure 22K gold-made gold coffin and gold foil throne, and many original sculptures unearthed from the tomb of King Tutanka. They are arranged by age and placed in multiple exhibition halls on the upper and lower floors. The
museum is divided into two floors. The first floor displays antiques from the ancient kingdom period to the Roman period clockwise. The historical relics from the ancient Egyptian period to the 5th and 6th centuries BC, and there are many large stone statues, sarcophagus and stone carvings. The second floor is divided into different exhibition rooms and exhibition areas according to the theme, with many smaller special exhibition rooms such as mummies, jewelry, coffins, paintings, burial objects, papyrus documents, etc. Among these cultural relics, there are many fine works such as statues, sarcophagus, mausoleums, mummies, carriages, golden coffins, headdresses, etc.; there are huge stone statues of Egyptian pharaohs and gilded vehicles of pharaohs; there are prehistoric pottery and stone tools; there are various artworks carefully made by ancient artists, as well as straw paper documents that record science, literature, history, law, etc. Among the many collections, the cultural relics unearthed from the Tutankhamen mausoleum are the most noticeable. The museum also specially set up an exhibition room to display the cultural relics in the Tutankhamen tomb, including the pharaoh's golden mask and coffin. Panoramic view of the central hall of
: The top is a stone sculpture of Amon Hotep III and his wife, and the middle is covered with a painted floor from the Amarna period.
From another perspective, the central hall
The two-story columns surround the central hall
The second floor panoramic view of the museum
Mummy Exhibition Room is another eye-catching part, exhibiting several pharaoh mummies with more than 3,000 years of history, including famous pharaohs such as Ramses II, SetiI, Tuthmosis II, etc. What impressed me most was the Nile crocodile mummies hidden in a three-open cabinet (the ancient Egyptians made crocodile corpses into mummies and then buried them in a huge tomb as a sacrifice dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek).
If you want to avoid the crowd and visit the Tutankhamen exhibition room quietly, the only way is to run to the upper floor exhibition room immediately when the museum opens.
After feasting the eyes and various rare treasures, we walked out of the museum, and the outdoor garden was full of ancient relics. These outdoor exhibits such as Sphinx statues, obelisks, stone carvings, etc. are original objects transported from all over Egypt. Their history is more than 3,000 years and also have high cultural relics value.
The tomb and monument of the first director of the museum is the tomb and monument of the French archaeologist Auguste Mariette. It is said that he was the first to build a museum to protect ancient Egyptian cultural relics. In order to thank and commemorate him, the Egyptians allowed him to rest forever in the museum. In the circle behind the statue, there are statues of a group of famous Egyptologists, including the Frenchman Shang Boliang who cracked Egyptian hieroglyphs, etc., to show his respect for these archaeologists.
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