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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King Tut Museum -- Photo Courtesy of the official Egyptian Museum website CAIRO -- 11 March 2018: The Restoration center at the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is close to put an end for the restoration process of the tunic discovered in King Tutankhamun's tomb back in 1922, however, the item of clothing was never shown to the public before.

GEM to reveal King Tut's tunic

The Ministry of Antiquities plans to complete the first phase of the Grand Egyptian Museum before the middle of this year.

Insurance coverage of King Tut belongings to be shown abroad valued at $862m: El-Anany

Before the painting work, the photographer, Idan Dodson received permission from the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities and the Egyptian Museum to remove the protective glass case that covers the Nefertiti mummy to examine it.

Skin color deemed 'too fair' in 3D reconstruction of Egypt's Queen Nefertiti

Egypt moved an 83-tonne, 3,200-year-old statue of King Ramses II to the atrium of Cairo's new Grand Egyptian Museum on Thursday in a complex operation undertaken by army engineers and specialist contractors.

Colossus of ancient King Ramses moved to new home

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.

AUC Bookstore Opens in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo

The Grand Egyptian Museum will be housed in a vast, spectacular building on a 117-acre site.

Pyramids to get super museum; TRAVEL

When it opens next year, visitors to the Grand Egyptian Museum will be able to see the Great Pyramid of Khufu and the Pyramid of Menkaure through the glass wall that fronts the galleries.

Grand Museum to Showcase Egypt's Ancient Culture (But Hebrew Slaves will Not :-) be Used This Time)

A year after the beard was accidentally knocked off and hastily reattached, the 3,300 year-old burial mask of King Tutankhamun is finally back on display at The Egyptian Museum after more than two months of restoration by a team of experts from Henkel Adhesive Technologies.

Henkel puts Tutankhamun's famed golden mask back to its full glory

Following a botched repair job by Egyptian museum workers -- after the ancient mask was broken more than a year ago -- it needed to be taken apart before it could be permanently fixed.

King Tut's Broken Beard

But a closer look at the gold relic on exhibit at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo will show scratches and a tiny slant of the attached beard.

Controversy over the regluing of King Tut's beard

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo is one of the city's main tourist sites, but in some areas, ancient wooden sarcophagi lay unprotected from the public, while pharaonic burial shrouds, mounted on walls, crumble from behind open panels of glass.