The Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s Tahrir Square is celebrating its 126th anniversary with putting the artifacts that were used in its construction on display for the first time.
The displayed pieces include a hammer, shovel and a commemorative medal engraved with the name of Khedive Abbas Helmy II, which was especially designed and made to commemorate the event of laying down the foundation stone, in addition to the feather and ink pen that were used to commemorate this important event.
The museum had implemented a renovation scheme in accordance with the original plan of the museum’s French architect Marcel Dourgon who was selected following a competition in 1895.
These renovations had been carried out by the Egyptian scientific committee and the museum’s inspectors in collaboration with five European museums: the Turin Museum in Italy, the Louvre in Paris, the British Museum in London, the Egyptian Museum in Berlin, and the Rijksmuseum Van Oudheden in Germany.
The Egyptian Museum is the oldest archaeological museum in the Middle East; it houses the largest collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities in the world.
The museum displays an extensive collection of artefacts from the Predynastic Period to the Greco-Roman Era.
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