EGYPTIAN MUSEUM

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 CONTENT
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 Introduction
 History
 Interior Design
 Speciality of Egyptian Museum
 Egyptian Mummies
 Current Status Of Museum
 Conclusion
WORLD MAP
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CONTINENT MAP
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 STRUCTURE OF
EGYPTIAN
 MUSEUM
INTRODUCTION
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 Build in : 1835
 Location : Cairo, Egypt
 Type : History Museum
 Collection Size : 1,20,000 items
 Director : Sabah Abdel-Razek
 Co-ordinates : 30.047778N,31.233333E
 HISTORY
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YEAR EVENT
 1858  Museum established at
Boulaq, under the direction
of Auguste Maritiette.
 1878  Museum damaged in the
flood of Nile.
 1891  Collections were removed
from palace.
 1902
 Egyptian government was
established.
 2011  Mummies were destroyed.
INTERIOR DESIGN
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EQUIPPED WITH
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COINS ITEMS

STATUE
GOLD
S

SILVER COFFINS
 FIRST FLOOR
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First floor artifacts are from two dynasities of egypt
Includes:
Thutmosis 3
Thutmosis 4
Amenophis 2
Hatsheput
Courtier Maiherpri
Two special rooms :
 a number of mummies of kings
 royal family members of the new kingdom.
It features a monument to Auguste Mariette, surrounded by 23 busts.
 SPECIALITY OF
MUSEUM
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 Room no:32 statues of Nofret and Rahotep and
furniture from Giza Plateau.
 Room no:37 Senab’s family ,chair, bed canopy and
jewellery box.
 Room no:161 unfinished head of Nefertitive the wife
of Akhenatan.
 EGYPTIAN MUMMIES
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 Mummification: Preservation of dead body as a
religious practice.
 It continued and developed for 2000 years into the
Roman period .(ca 30 B.C-A.D.364)
 The best prepared and preserved mummies are from
the eighteenth century through the Twentieth
Dynasities of the New Kingdom(ca 1570-1075 B.C)
 MUMMIFICATION
PROCESS
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 It took seventy days.
 First Step: Removal of Internal Parts
 Second Step: Inserting special instrument in order to
pull the bits of brain.
 Third Step: Removal of organs from the abdomen
 Fourth Step: Leave the heart in the same place
believing as the center of the intelligence.
 Fifth Step: Buried and then organs were wrapped
and replaced with in the body.
CURRENT AFFAIRS OF
THE MUSEUM
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 It emerged that Tut’s beard-perhaps the world’s most celebrated
artifact had been broken by clumsy crucators.
 Museum’s chief conservator was moved to a rather less glamarous
position at the museum of royal vehicles.
 Walls - repainted with pistachio green , restoring the interior to its
original colour.
 Exterior of museum - swamped by the nearby traffic jams and
building works .
 Inside - cluttered and impressive to the most visitors.
 showcase - installed with the protective glass
 Machine - installed to control the temperature and acidity of the
air.