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The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the Egyptian Museum (Arabic: المتحف المصري, romanized: al-Matḥaf al-Miṣrī, Egyptian Arabic: el-Matḥaf el-Maṣri [elˈmætħæf elˈmɑsˤɾi]) (also called the Cairo Museum), located in Cairo, Egypt, houses the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world. [1]
Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts [1] (due to being partly opened in 2018, currently housed in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo); British Museum, London, England: Over 100,000 artifacts [2] (not including the 2001 donation of the six million artifact Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory) [3] [4]
The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) is a large museum (490,000 square metres (5,300,000 sq ft) located in Old Cairo, a district of Cairo, Egypt.. Partially opened in 2017, the museum was officially inaugurated on 3 April 2021 by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, with the moving of 22 mummies, including 18 kings and four queens, from the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo, in an ...
The very biggest news in Egypt, though, is the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), an estimated billion-dollar architectural marvel on an over 120-acre site on the Giza Plateau, near the pyramids and ...
Museum of Egyptian Railways: Cairo: Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo: Cairo: Museum of Islamic Ceramics: Cairo: National Museum of Egyptian Civilization : Cairo: 2017: Museum of Modern Art in Egypt: Port Said: contemporary and modern art: 1995: National Museum of Sharqeya [2] Herriat Raznah: archaeology: 1973: Nubian Museum: Aswan: 1997
In 1972, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the tomb, the British Museum negotiated an agreement with Egypt to send 50 Tutankhamun objects—including the famous gold mask.
As a result, museum trustees flew to Egypt to meet with the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, where they worked out a mutual agreement for a seventh stop. Profits after exhibition expenses resulted in $10+ million going to the Egyptian Museum for refurbishing. [16]
A team of archaeological divers found pieces of ancient Egyptian artifacts that have been sitting at the bottom of the Nile River since the area was flooded in the 1960s and 1970s.. During an ...