The Egyptian Museum in Cairo

Definition: The Egyptian Museum opened at Tahrir Square in Cairo on November 15, 1902. French architect Marcel Dourgnon built it in the neo-classical style. It contains 107 exhibition halls, more than 120,000 objects, with the larger statues on the ground floor. The Egyptian Museum houses a library and a photography section as well as the following

• Tutankhamon's treasures
• pre-dynasty and Old Kingdom monuments
• first intermediate period and Middle Kingdom monuments
• monuments of the Modern Kingdom
• monuments of the late period and the Greek and Roman periods
• coins and papyrus
• sarcophagi and scrabs.

A hall for the royal mummies was opened at the museum, housing eleven kings and queens. More than a million and half tourists visit the museum annually, in addition to half a million Egyptians.

Source: Tour Egypt.

Also Known As: The Egyptian Antiquities Museum