The "Egyptian Museum" page on the social networking site "Twitter" has published a number of ancient Egyptian artifacts that have been on display for more than 160 years in the Antiquities Museum in Bulaq, which is the first official authority to protect antiquities.
It is known that the Egyptian antiquities were subject to looting, looting and destruction until Khedive Abbas Helmy I issued orders to the directorates to impose strict control on foreigners and Egyptians who were stealing, hiding and selling antiquities.
When "Auguste Mariette" came, who discovered the entrance to the Serapeum in Saqqara, and made excavations in the cemetery of the calf Apis, which lasted nearly three years, and who sought to convince the first of the matter to establish an Egyptian Antiquities Service and an Egyptian Museum.
On June 19, 1858, Khedive Said approved the establishment of an Egyptian Antiquities Authority, and appointed him as the commissioner of antiquities work in Egypt and the administration of excavations.
Mariette began to work extensive archaeological research programs, and established a storehouse of antiquities on the banks of the Nile in Bulaq, which was transformed on February 5, 1859 into a museum upon the discovery of the treasure of Queen Iah Hoteb in the Daraa Abu al-Naga area in Thebes, and one of the most important pieces discovered was the coffin inside which a group of jewels and jewelry The weapons, which were of a high degree of magnificence, incited Khedive Saeed with enthusiasm for the establishment of a museum of Egyptian antiquities in Bulaq.
It was built during the reign of Khedive Ismail and was opened to visit for the first time in 1863, and the museum was in its inception a huge building overlooking the Nile and called (the House of Antiquities or Antikhana), but it was exposed to the flood of the Nile in 1878 and flooded the halls of the museum to the extent that a group of exhibits with Scientific artistic value has been lost.
Mon, Oct. 19, 2020
