Watch a tour inside the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir before the royal mummies procession

The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir is one of the most important and prominent world museums, and it contains extremely rare artifacts, dating back thousands of years, and a global procession will depart from the museum in the coming days for the exit of 22 royal mummies to go in their permanent display at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, and for this the seventh day was conducted A tour inside the Egyptian Museum before the transfer of mummies.

The establishment of the museum came after Khedive Ismail approved the project to establish a museum of Egyptian antiquities in 1863, and behind the idea of ​​establishing the museum was the French Egyptologist August Mariette, the first officer to occupy the antiquities and head of the Antiquities Authority in 1858, and he found that there must be an administration and a museum of antiquities, so he chose the Bulaq area To establish a museum of Egyptian antiquities and transfer to it the antiquities found during excavations (such as the effects of the tomb of Aahhotep).

The design of the museum was chosen from among the 73 designs presented in the past to officials, while the design of the French engineer, "Marcel Dornon", who built it in the style of classical Greco-Roman architecture, and the facade of the museum is in the French style with circular arches, decorated with marble paintings of the most important and famous archaeologists in the world And on either side of the wooden entrance door are two large pebble statues of two women in the Roman style, but with pharaonic heads.

On November 15, 1902, Khedive Abbas Helmy II officially inaugurated the Egyptian Museum, and the museum included more than 150 thousand artifacts, the most important of which are the archaeological collections found in the tombs of the kings and the royal entourage of the middle family in Dahshur in 1894, and the museum now includes the greatest archaeological collection in the world that expresses all Phases of ancient Egyptian history, as it includes King Mentuhib II and a group of statues of some kings of the 12th family, statues of Hatshepsut, Tuthmosis III and Ramses II, and a large number of royal coffins.