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After your hotel transfer, you will meet your guide, who will give you all the information you want about the sites and transport you to the Egyptian Museum... You will have a more successful and enjoyable holiday if you have a tour guide.
Auguste Mariette, a French Egyptologist, developed the idea for the museum's founding in 1858... After first selecting the Bulaq region, the archaeological collection was relocated to Ismail Pasha's Palace in Giza in 1891 and eventually to the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, where it is now.
The earliest structure devoted to serving as an antiquities museum is the Egyptian Museum building. Its design was chosen from among 73 designs submitted in the past to officials, with the design by French engineer Marcel Dornion winning. Through a collection of photos dating back to the construction of the Egyptian Museum before its official opening in 1902, as the first concrete building and the first museum to be built and designed to be a museum, rather than a replacement space as was the custom in the past, and published by the "Msafer Khana" page, we recall the story of the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir.
The piece, located in the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, dates back to the Late Period (26th-30th Dynasty, c. 522-343 BC), and was found at Tell Basta, Zagazig. It is a piece of black granite depicting several deities, including the goddess Isis, who bears the title "Pride of Great Magic" as one of her titles.
