Since the opening of ‘Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs‘ exhibition at La Grande Halle de La Villette in Paris on 7 April, the exhibition has witnessed a huge turnout of visitors, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mostafa Waziry said.
On the first day of its official opening, 165,000 tickets were sold. It is expected that the number of visitors will reach one million by its end on September 6, Waziry said.
On display are the sarcophagus of King Ramses II, 181 artefacts from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir dating back to the Ramsside Era (1292-1189 BCE), artefacts discovered by the Egyptian mission in the Bubasteum area in Saqqara, plus objects from the Middle, Modern, New and Late New Kingdoms such as statues, ornaments, cosmetics, paintings, stone blocks decorated with inscriptions, and statues of deities in the form of birds and animals, in addition to some painted wooden coffins.
