The Grand Egyptian Museum continues to install heavy artifacts on the Great Staircase, where work is currently underway to install statues of King Sonnet I in the place of their final display inside the corridors of the Grand Museum, which is waiting for the world to open, as it will contain more than 50 thousand artifacts, but the question is whether King Senusret is The first other statues will be displayed in the museum?
King Senusret I has a group of statues that will be displayed inside the Grand Egyptian Museum, where the number of statues of the king is 10, which were deposited inside the Great Hall in preparation for placing them in the place of their permanent display in the museum.
Also, the collection of statues of King Senusret I was unveiled in 1894 inside a hole in the funerary temple of the hierarchical group of King Senusret I in the Lisht area in Fayoum, made of limestone, and it was transferred to the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir in 1895 AD, and this group depicts King Senusret I in the youth stage. He is seated on the throne.
Senusret I was one of the most powerful pharaohs of the Twelfth Dynasty, and he continued the policy of his father, Amenemhat the First, and applied his advice in his teachings to him, so he expanded, and carried out two military campaigns in the tenth and eighteenth years of his rule, and determined the official southern borders of Egypt near the Second Cataract and established a military garrison there. He erected a memorial plaque glorifying his military victories there, and this militarily active pharaoh was not satisfied with this, but sent a military campaign to the western oases, and he succeeded in building strong diplomatic relations with the princes of the Syrian and Canaanite cities.
Thu, Mar. 11, 2021
