Egyptian Museum

Egyptian Museum

Highlights The museum’s precious artifacts include: statues of King Khafre seated, a scribe sitting cross-legged, and King Rahotep and his queen from the Old Kingdom; polychrome wooden soldier figures and offerings-bearers from the Middle Kingdom; as well as figures of Thutmose III, Ramses II, and Akhenaten from the New Kingdom. The most outstanding items in the collection are over 1,700 relics unearthed from the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun of the 18th Dynasty, including a golden throne, a golden mask, a golden coffin, golden ornaments, exquisite bas-reliefs of Tutankhamun and his queen, the pharaoh's chariot, war chariots, and hunting bows, furniture inlaid with ivory and colored glass, the queen’s jewelry and chests, among others. In the mummy section, there are mummies of several pharaohs and their consorts from various periods of Egyptian history, among which the best preserved is the body of Pharaoh Ramses II of the 19th Dynasty. The papyrus scroll exhibit includes historical materials related to temple rituals, priestly duties, and more.

In addition, the museum displays many daily-use items from the lives of ancient Egyptian commoners, such as various wooden, leather, and straw household utensils, food items like beer, wine, fruit, bread, meat, and vegetables, models of looms, farming tools such as plows, hoes, and sickles, weapons such as clubs, slingshots, axes, bows, and arrows, musical instruments like harps, lyres, flutes, and drums, as well as cultural items such as levels, pens, and palettes. Introduction The Egyptian Museum is located in Tahrir Square in central Cairo. Opened in 1902, it is the world’s most famous and largest museum of ancient Egyptian antiquities. The museum houses a collection of over 300,000 items, including statues, paintings, gold and silverware, jewelry, handicrafts, coffins, stelae, and papyrus scrolls, spanning from prehistoric times through the Greek and Roman periods in Egypt. Most of the exhibits are over 3,000 years old. The museum has two floors, with artifacts displayed chronologically across dozens of rooms. The first floor showcases historical relics from the 27th to the 22nd centuries BCE during ancient Egypt, through to the 5th to 6th centuries CE under Roman rule. The second floor features special exhibitions on mummies, jewelry, coffins, paintings, funerary objects, and papyrus scrolls. Ticket / Opening Hours Adults: 50 EGP, students: 25 EGP. Opening hours: 9:00–16:00 (Friday: 9:00–11:00, 13:30–16:00)

Cairo, Egypt