important museums in the world. The Egyptian Antiquities Museum has a long history dating back to 1825, when Mohamed Ali Pasha, ruler of Egypt at the time, issued a decree to create a museum of antiquities from Egypt and the first location of the museum faces the lake Azbakeya between Place de l'Opéra and Atabba today.
The ruler of Egypt at that time I did not realize the true value of antiques and ancient historical discoveries in Egypt and began to give European tourists who visited Egypt in this time period in the mid 19th century.
In the end, the rest of the antiques that were stored near Lake Azabakeya were taken to an abandoned room in the citadel. When the Archduke Maximilian of Austria, visited the citadel and loved the effects of this room.
This is because the Khedive Abbas, the leader of Egypt at the time, gave the Archduke all items that were stored in the room. Then Maximiliano antiqutieis thesis took him to Austria and are still there to this day.
After several attempts and many efforts have been exerted by the great Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, the recent Egyptian Antiquities Museum, located in the famous Tahrir Square opened to the public on November 15, 1902.
About the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities
Located opposite the main entrance of the Museum of Antiquities of Egypt, there is a small artificial lake with some of the lotus and papyrus, the most important to the ancient Egyptians plants.
Papyrus is the long green plant that was used by the ancient Egyptians to produce documents. Also, the word "paper" in English and the word "paper" in French are both derived from the word papyrus.
Sections of the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities
Antiquties Egyptian Museum located in Tahrir Square in Cairo is considered the world's largest museum. With so many pieces put on display at the Egyptian Museum, and up to twice the amount stored in the local stores, guests take days to see everything in the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities.
The Egyptian Museum is antiquties or two floors; the ground floor which accommodates screens as heavy coffins, huge statues and stone carvings.
The screens in this plant are arranged according to historical periods that are the Old Kingdom, the transition period, the New Kingdom, Late Period, Greco Roman period, and antiquities of Nubia.
The top floor of the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities welcomes lighter screens that include appliances and tools, funerary objects, small statues, papyri, wooden coffins, jewels, and especially screens grave Tut Ankh Amon.
Narmer Plate
Among the most important shows that customers should visit the Egyptian Museum during his visit is the Narmer plate or plate of King Menes.
The plate Narmer is a stone plaque and no evidence that still king Narmer or Menes was able to unify the two parts of Egypt, Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt into a unified kingdom, which marks the starting dynastic history of Egypt.
King Menes name is registered on both sides of the plate. King Menes is shown on one side of the long white crown and wear plate is fighting a war prisoner with hands
On the other side of the plate Narmer, the king is shown the door two crowns and walking with his disciples to oversee the process to continue pow.
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