On this day, August 10, 1793 AD, the Louvre Museum was opened in the French capital, Paris, a year after the French Revolution stormed it. Before that, it was known as the Twis-Le-Rey Palace, as it was the residence of the kings of France before the French Revolution.
And the Louvre Museum in Paris includes a large number of Egyptian antiquities, where the Egyptian civilization has a special status, and about 6000 thousand artifacts are displayed in the section on Egyptian antiquities.
The show in the Louvre is divided into halls that display topics specific to Egyptian civilization, namely: the Nile, writing, crafts and industries, furniture, clothing and decorations, music and games, the temple, animals and gods.
While the other part of the exhibition halls displays the historical sequence of the ancient Egyptian civilization through its eras until the Greco-Roman.
The museum is the most important art museum in the world, which is located on the northern bank of the Seine River in Paris, the capital of France. Later, it turned into a royal palace known at the time as the Louvre Palace, inhabited by the kings of France.
The last to take it as an official residence was Louis XIV, who left it to the Palace of Versailles in 1672 to be the seat of the new government, leaving the Louvre to be a headquarters that contains a group of royal antiques and sculptures in particular, and in 1692 the building occupied two academies of representation, sculpture and painting, which opened its first salon in 1699, It occupied the building for 100 years.
Wed, Aug. 11, 2021
