Sabah Abdel Razek, Director General of the Egyptian Museum of Liberation, said that the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has been close to the completion of the lighting work inside the museum, after the completion of the European Union project for the development of the museum, adding in exclusive statements to “The Seventh Day”: “We are working to restore the scenario of the show The museum inside the museum corridors, and visitors will see new pieces during their wandering in the museum, which were located inside the museum stores.
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The Egyptian Museum is the oldest antique museum in the Middle East, and includes the largest group of ancient Egyptian antiquities in the world. The museum displays a large group that extends from the pre -family period to the Greek and Roman eras.
The architect of the building was chosen through an international competition in 1895, which was the first of its kind, and was won by French architect Marcel Dorgnon, while Khedive Abbas Hilmi II opened the museum in 1902, and became a historical teacher in central Cairo, and a place for the most wonderful to cut the ancient Egyptian antiquities.
Among the museum groups that are unparalleled are the funerary collection of Liwa and Toya, Bassosinis I and Kanzan Tanis, and the Narmer plate that commemorates the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under one king, and it is among the invaluable artifacts in the museum.
The museum also includes wonderful statues of the great kings, Khufu, Khafra, and Makaor Al -Ahram builders in the Giza Plateau, as well as a large group of papyri, coffins and jewelry that complements the distinctive collection of this museum..
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