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Museum of Egyptian Antiquities submitted by Andy B : Some artifacts repatriated from the UK, part of the Repatriated objects exhibition held in 2015 Photo credit: Riham Mahmoud (Vote or comment on this photo)
Home to an extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities. It has 120,000 items, with a representative amount on display, the remainder in storerooms. It is one of the largest museums in the region. As of October 2015, it is open to the public again.

During the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, the museum was broken into, and two mummies were reportedly destroyed and several artifacts were also shown to have been damaged. Around 50 objects were lost. Since then 25 objects have been recovered. Those that were restored were put on display in September 2013 in an exhibition entitled Damaged and Restored. Among the displayed artifacts are two statues of King Tutankhamen made of cedar wood and covered with gold, a statue of King Akhenaton, Ushabtis statues that belonged to the Nubian kings, a mummy of a child and a small plychrome glass vase. More at Wikipedia

A list of gallery items at
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Note: A look at some of the stolen objects repatriated and put on display again in the Egyptian museum. See the most recent comments for more.
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Museum of Egyptian Antiquities submitted by Andy B : A royal relief repatriated from the UK, part of the Repatriated objects exhibition held in 2015 Photo credit: Riham Mahmoud (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Museum of Egyptian Antiquities submitted by durhamnature : Old photo from "History of Egypt..." via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Museum of Egyptian Antiquities submitted by durhamnature : One of the exhibits from "History of Egypt...", via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Museum of Egyptian Antiquities submitted by Orcinus : Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, 2009 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Museum of Egyptian Antiquities submitted by Andy B : A beautiful limestone relief, part of the Repatriated objects exhibition held in 2015 Photo credit: Riham Mahmoud (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Museum of Egyptian Antiquities submitted by Flickr : ANUBIS; MUSEUM OF EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES; CAIRO, EGYPT Anubis was the ruler of the underworld, the god who supervised the enbalming and burial of the deceased and who guided the dead to the underworld. The dog symbol seems to have been associated with the idea of Image copyright: dmclean2009 (Dewey McLean), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Museum of Egyptian Antiquities submitted by Flickr : The Egyptian Museum of Antiquities Coffin Of King Tut present in Egyptian Museum Of Antiquities. Know more at: bit.ly/OceV8k Image copyright: Askaladdin (Ask Aladdin), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Museum of Egyptian Antiquities submitted by Orcinus : Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, 2009. Can anyone help ID these statues?

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Museum of Egyptian Antiquities submitted by durhamnature : One of the exhibits, from "History of Egypt...", via archive.org

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Museum of Egyptian Antiquities submitted by DrewParsons : Tutankhamun's Death Mask made of solid gold. Photographed in August 1988 and subsequently scanned. Located in the Egypt Museum

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Museum of Egyptian Antiquities submitted by DrewParsons : Tutankhamun's Royal Throne Chair photographed in August 1988 and subsequently scanned. Located in the Egypt Museum

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Repatriated objects exhibition in the Egyptian Museum which ran up to Feb 2016 by Andy B on Tuesday, 17 May 2016
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Details of the repatriated objects exhibition held in the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square The exhibition included the most important repatriated objects during the second half of 2014 and 2015. Among these objects, the royal relief of Seti I , which repatriated from the UK, also, a Karnak relief was stolen and out of Egypt illegally, belongs to Thotmose VI .

Riham Mahmoud writes: I guess 2015 was a big year for the repatriation department. As the exhibition also includes Nazlet Khatter II human skeleton which dates to 35.000 represents the upper paleolithic period in Egypt. The skeleton was repatriated from Belgium last August. The exhibition also includes the objects repatriated from UK , the case well-known since a while -Neil Kingsberry who tried to sell these objects by false provenance information.

Also, the Ministry of Antiquities mentioned the names of people , researchers and institutions that helped the ministry to repatriate these objects to its home , Egypt on a panel titled ”List of Honor”.

Lots of images at
https://heritagevsmoney.wordpress.com/

See also Community Archaeology in Eqypt: fixing negative relationship between archaeology and local community
https://www.academia.edu/25362723/
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New discovery solves ancient Egyptian chariot mystery by bat400 on Tuesday, 08 October 2013
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During routine archaeological research as part of the Ancient Egypt Leatherwork Project (AELP) carried out by Salima Ikram, Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo (AUC) and Andre Veldmeijer, head of the Egyptology section at the Netherlands Flemish Institute in Cairo, a collection of 300 leather fragments of an Old Kingdom chariot were uncovered at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Ikram describes the discovery as very important and the collection as “extremely rare.” Only a handful of complete chariots are known from ancient Egypt.

“Even then, they are largely unembellished and not as well-preserved as the fragments we found,” asserted Ikram. Although horse-drawn chariots are often illustrated in ancient Egyptian artwork, she said, archaeological evidence that goes beyond wooden frames is rare due to their organic nature.

“The fragments are in a much better shape than we originally anticipated, and we were able to achieve a sense of how the leather unfolds,” Ikram said.

The archaeological team is now studying the technology and resources used to make the leather chariots in order to reconstruct a complete exact replica of an ancient Egyptian royal leather chariot in 2014.

“The team is also going to test hypotheses about the uses of the different pieces of leather, which may prove to be a challenging endeavour,” said Ikram.

She explains that studies on the newly discovered leather fragments reveal that some pieces are folded over in a crumpled state, and the reconstruction of certain portions while trying to maintain accuracy in reproducing the technologies used might be more difficult than anticipated.

The AELP started in 2008 working on all leather artefacts on display at the Egyptian Museum. During the work, Ikram and Veldmeijer came across a 1950s publication by Robert Jacobus Forbes titled Studies in Ancient Technology with a black and white photograph of ancient reigns and horse harnesses, evidently intact and said to exist at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Thrilled by Forbes's findings, both Egyptologists sought the help of museum curators to locate a cache of leather items related to an ancient chariot, including parts of the bow-case.

According to a press release sent from the AUC press, the findings fit in with a larger multidisciplinary and holistic research venture on leatherwork in ancient Egypt, which also includes the study of other fragmentary chariot pieces, such as those originating from the tombs of Thutmose IV (Carter and Newberry, 1904), Amenhotep II (Daressy, 1902) and Amenhotep III (Littauer and Crouwel, 1985, 1968 and 1987), as well as the leather finds from the Amarna period (Veldmeijer, 2010). This larger project is directed by Veldmeijer and Ikram.

Thanks to coldrum for the link. For more, see http://www.albawaba.com.
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Re: Museum of Egyptian Antiquities by Anonymous on Saturday, 05 February 2011
Andy,

Our blood too is boiling all we can do is to support eachother in our researches and attempts to publish news and pictures.

Please do not give up, The Taliesins rely on you and offer our support and positive thoughts.

Kindest regards

Julian & Valerie Rutherford
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Egyptologists desperate for solid news by bat400 on Saturday, 05 February 2011
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Varying accounts of the impact of the uprising in Egypt on that country's antiquities:

"Archaeologists voiced deepening concern on Thursday after fresh street battles erupted around Cairo's Egyptian Museum housing the gold sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun and other priceless relics.

"Websites and chat-rooms buzzed with anxiety after a break-in last Friday that left a number of glass cabinets smashed and precious objects damaged, including two mummies.

"There were also accounts of pilfering at an antiquities storage depot at Qantara and anecdotal reports of tomb raiding at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara.

"But the country's newly appointed minister of antiquities, well-known egyptologist Zahi Hawass, on Thursday played down accounts of the break-in at the Museum and warned against 'rumours.'
In a posting on his blog (), Hawass said the incident at the museum resulted in '70 broken objects, all of which can be restored.' "

For more, see AFP News.
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Egyptian Museum "Looted by Security Guards" by Andy B on Wednesday, 02 February 2011
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There appears more to this than Dr Hawass is letting on:

The looting and destruction of antiquities in the Egyptian Museaum in Cairo on Friday evening was the work of the museum's poorly paid security guards, a former director of the museum is reported saying on the website of the German news organization Die Zeit.

Wafaa el-Saddik told Zeit Online that the museum's security guards earned about 250 Egyptian pounds, or 35 euros (U.S.$ 48) a month. "We have about 160 security guards plus several dozen police officers who are basically conscripts in police uniforms. These policemen earn even less," Wafaa el-Saddik said. Some of the guards had nothing, she added. One sold everything he had to get medicine for his sick child. Others were hungry "even at home."

http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2011/01/plundering-of-tombs-museums-widespread-in-egypt.html
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Zahi Hawass describes Robberies and Looting in Eygpt by bat400 on Tuesday, 01 February 2011
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Archaeologist Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, reports that several of the country's museums have been attacked by looters taking advantage of the political turmoil in the country.

Source: National Geographic News.
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Cairo's Museum of Egyptian Antiquities during 2011 Protests by bat400 on Tuesday, 01 February 2011
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Museum Secured by Egyptian Armed Forces and Assistance of Tourist Police and Volunteers from among Protesters.
The museum is located next to the ruling party's headquarters and to Tahrir Square, putting it in close proximity to protests.

For more, see this Forum thread: This is a link.
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Math Puzzles’ Oldest Ancestors Took Form on Egyptian Papyrus by davidmorgan on Sunday, 26 December 2010
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“As I was going to St. Ives
I met a man with seven wives. ...”

You may know this singsong quiz, but what you might not know is this:

That it began with ancient Egypt’s early math-filled manuscripts.

It’s true. That very British-sounding St. Ives conundrum (the one where the seven wives each have seven sacks containing seven cats who each have seven kits, and you have to figure out how many are going to St. Ives) has a decidedly archaic antecedent.

An Egyptian document more than 3,600 years old, the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, contains a puzzle of sevens that bears an uncanny likeness to the St. Ives riddle. It has mice and barley, not wives and sacks, but the gist is similar. Seven houses have seven cats that each eat seven mice that each eat seven grains of barley. Each barley grain would have produced seven hekat of grain. (A hekat was a unit of volume, roughly 1.3 gallons.)

The goal: to determine how many things are described. The answer: 19,607.

The Rhind papyrus, which dates to 1650 B.C., is one of several precocious papyri and other artifacts displaying Egyptian mathematical ingenuity. There is the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus (held at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow), the Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll (which along with the Rhind papyrus is housed at the British Museum) and the Akhmim Wooden Tablets (at the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo).

They include methods of measuring a ship’s mast and rudder, calculating the volume of cylinders and truncated pyramids, dividing grain quantities into fractions and verifying how much bread to exchange for beer. They even compute a circle’s area using an early approximation of pi. (They use 256/81, about 3.16, instead of pi’s value of 3.14159....)

It all goes to show that making puzzles is “the most ancient of all instincts,” said Marcel Danesi, a puzzle expert and anthropology professor at the University of Toronto, who calls documents like the Rhind papyrus “the first puzzle books in history.”

Dr. Danesi says people of all eras and cultures gravitate toward puzzles because puzzles have solutions.

“Other philosophical puzzles of life do not,” he continued. “When you do get it you go, ‘Aha, there it is, damn it,’ and it gives you some relief.”

But the Egyptian puzzles were not just recreational diversions seeking the comforting illusion of competence. They were serious about their mission. In the Rhind papyrus, its scribe, known as Ahmes, introduces the roughly 85 problems by saying that he is presenting the “correct method of reckoning, for grasping the meaning of things and knowing everything that is, obscurities and all secrets.”

And the documents were practical guides to navigating a maturing civilization and an expanding economy.

“Egypt was going from a centralized, structured world to partially being decentralized,” said Milo Gardner, an amateur decoder of Egyptian mathematical texts who has written extensively about them. “They had an economic system that was run by absentee landowners and paid people in units of grain, and in order to make it fair had to have exact weights and measures. They were trying to figure out a way to evenly divide the hekat so they could use it as a unit of currency.”

So the Akhmim tablets, nearly 4,000 years old, contain lists of servants’ names, along with a series of computations concerning how a hekat of grain can be divided by 3, 7, 10, 11 and 13.

The Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll, also from about 1650 B.C., is generally considered a kind of practice test for students to learn how to convert fractions into sums of other fractions.

The Rhind papyrus contains geometry problems that compute the slopes of pyramids and the volume of various-shaped granaries. And the Moscow papyrus, from about 1850 B.C., has about 25 proble

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2,400 yr-old star table reveals secrets of ancient Egyptian 'star-gazing' by davidmorgan on Sunday, 21 November 2010
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From coldrum:

The Ancient Egyptians kept close tabs on the Big Dipper, monitoring changes in the constellation's orientation throughout the course of an entire year, a new research on a 2,400 year old star table has shown.

The Big Dipper is composed of seven stars and is easily viewable in the northern hemisphere. Its shape looks like a ladle with a scoop attached. Ancient Egyptians represented it as an ox's foreleg.

If a person were to observe the constellation at the exact same time every night they would see it gradually move counter-clockwise each time they saw it.

Professor Sarah Symons, of McMaster University in Hamilton Canada, carried out the new research. The star table she analyzed is located inside the lid of a 2,400 year old granite sarcophagus, constructed in the shape of a bull, which is now in the Egyptian Museum, reports The Heritage Key.

The table is, "unique, though interesting, a very provocative astronomical object," she said.

Indeed the sarcophagus dates to the 30th dynasty, an important period in Egyptian history. It is the last point of time in antiquity where Egypt would be ruled by native born rulers.

Inside the sarcophagus there is an astronomical table, a section of which has rows that show the foreleg of an ox in a wide range of different positions. "It's quite a jumble," Symons said.

This section, although confusing to read, includes notation for the three Egyptian seasons, Akhet, Peret and Shemu. Each season is broken down into four months. It also has symbols representing the beginning, middle and end of the night - although it isn't known at what exact time these points would have been set.

"(Its) location throughout the course of the night, across the course of the year, was important for them to report."

Symons decided to focus on the orientation of the forelegs, re-drawing them as arrows. When she did this a pattern started to appear.

"In general the motion that it follows is the counter-clockwise motion that we would expect."

But there were problems. Over the course of a year the forelegs sometimes went the wrong way - as if the stars had stopped obeying the rules of astronomy. She believes that this was a scribal error, caused by someone writing down the information in the wrong format.

When the observations were first made they were written on papyrus and the months were probably organized into columns. On the other hand they were written in as rows on the sarcophagus.

"What happens to our table if we just keep all the months together?" And work with them as columns, she wondered. She found that the table had fewer errors and the information fell into place.

"Overall the motion is counter-clockwise throughout the year in general," she said.

The results were presented at an Egyptology symposium in Toronto.

http://www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-81645.html
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