Egyptian Museum

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Egyptian Museum

(also Egyptian National Museum), a museum in Cairo, founded in 1858 by the French scholar and Egyptologist A. Mariette. One of the main centers for the study of ancient Egyptian art, it contains the richest collection of remains of the art and culture of ancient Egypt, including finds from the ruins of the city of Akhetaton and the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamen and statues of the pharaohs Khafre and Amenemhet III and the prince Ka’aper. The museum organizes archaeological excavations. Since the end of the 19th century it has published a series of catalogs of the different sections of the collection. From 1858 to 1891 it was known as the Bulaq Museum; from 1891 to 1900, the Gizeh Museum; and since 1900, the Egyptian Museum.

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The Egyptian Museum.…. Cairo, 1956.

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All who know him declare that they have never met, not even in the Egyptian museum at Turin, so agreeable a mummy.

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27, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly presided the first meeting of the Higher Committee, formed under the supervision of President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi to set scenarios of the opening ceremony of the Grand Egyptian Museum. The meeting was attended by Minister of Antiquities Khaled al-Anani, Minister of Culture Inas Abdel Dayem, Minister of Tourism Rania al-Mashat, Governor of Giza Ahmed Rashed, and officials of a number of concerned authorities.

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The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities started on Sunday an investigation concerning a video circulating on social media showing a tourist "spitting on and insulting"the Seqenenre Tao mummy, placed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Ministry of Antiquities to investigate video of Algerian fan 'spiting' on Egyptian Museum mummy

Work on the 167,000sqm Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is progressing at a steady pace, with structural works fully completed and the surrounding road network almost ready, it has been announced.

Work on Grand Egyptian Museum progressing steadily, government says

Work on the 167,000-sq-m Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is progressing at a steady pace with the structural work fully completed and the surrounding roads almost ready, said a report.

Work in full swing at Egypt's grand museum project

Egypt's Prime Minister Dr Mostafa Madbouli has reviewed construction progress on the Grand Egyptian Museum project that Belgian construction giant Besix is co-building with its 50% owner and Egyptian contracting giant, Orascom, with construction on the 16.7ha museum currently 91.5% complete.

Progress on Orascom-Besix's Grand Egyptian Museum hits 91.5%

Officials said the bus was travelling on a road close to the Grand Egyptian Museum, under construction and located adjacent to the Giza Pyramids, when the blast happened yesterday.

Bomb blast hurts 17 tourists on bus trip; UK & WORLD

The officials said the bus was travelling on a road close to the Grand Egyptian Museum, which is under construction and located adjacent to the Giza Pyramids.

17 injured as tourist bus hit by bomb; Egypt: Device goes off near pyramids

The bus was travelling on a road close to the Grand Egyptian Museum when it was hit by an explosion

17 injured in Egypt tourist bus blast

The priceless artifact, paraded through Cairo on Saturday with a military police escort, was relocated from the Egyptian National Military Museum to its final resting place at the Grand Egyptian Museum.

Egypt moves last chariot of King Tut to new museum

TheAmerican University in Cairo Press (AUC Press) recently opened a bookstore inThe Egyptian Museum, as part of theEgyptian Heritage Exhibition, marking the 115 th anniversary of the Museum.