THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION: THE MAIN HALL, MUMMIES HALL, DYE HOUSE

MAMAZORAYAS August 02, 2022

The first museum in the Arab world dedicated to the ancient Egyptian culture. It is Egypt's sole museum that provides a basic overview of all of Egypt's historical periods. This museum serves as a cultural, educational, recreational, and research centre for local and international visitors and academics.

This has been treated as a layered cumulative result of the Egyptian people's connection with their throughout history. This was constructed with a multidisciplinary theme approach meant to highlight Egypt's tangible and intangible legacy.

CONTENTS

THE MAIN HALL
MUMMIES HALL
DYE HOUSE
THE FATIMIDS ERA
MUSEUM ADDRESS AND TICKET ORDER AND PRICE
THANK YOU FOR THE PHOTO OWNER

THE MAIN HALL

The main hall houses the museum's display section. It features several unique objects and designs to provide visitors with a comprehensive sense of the history of Egyptian heritage and to provide a closer look into traditional Egyptian popular culture. The exhibitions showcase the most significant from various eras.

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This museum displays a variety of objects designed to teach visitors about the Egyptian culture across several significant historical eras, beginning with the predynastic and ancient Egyptian periods and continuing through the graeco-roman, Coptic, Islamic, and contemporary modern periods.SOURCE

MUMMIES HALL

The royal mummies hall, considered the museum's crown treasure, is expressly created to showcase the mummies of Egypt's ancient kings and queens.

The design intends to evoke the sensation of wandering along the Valley of the Kings, where the majority of these mummies were once lying. The hall has 20 royal mummies, including 18 kings and 2 queens from the 17th to 20th dynasties. Hastepsut is the most well-known mummy (Maatkare). Seqenenre Taa II, Thutmose III (Menkheperre).SOURCE

DYE HOUSE

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The museum includes its western edge and an exclusive archaeological dye house dating back to the first century of the Fatimid dynasty (AD 369 -1171). The archaeological site was rediscovered during the preparatory excavations that preceded the construction of the museum between 2003 and 2004.

The dye house is very amazing since it is the sole well-preserved example of old dye houses in Cairo. The dye house industry has survived since the time of the Egyptians and has progressed through the Islamic centuries to the present day, making the dye house a popular site for museum visitors.SOURCE

THE FATIMIDS ERA

Conquest of Egypt and transfer of the Caliphate to Cairo

The Fatimids conquered Tunisia under the Abbasid Caliphate and constructed the city of "al-Mahdiyya" he Shiite dynasty dominated lands along Africa's Mediterranean coast, eventually becoming Egypt the caliphate's capital. The caliphate covered, in addition to Egypt, various territories of the Maghreb, Sudan, Sicily, the Levant, and the Hijaz at its peak. Egypt became the empire's political, cultural, and religious centre, spawning a new and "original Arabic" civilization.

The Fatimids built Cairo's Al-Azhar Mosque between 970 and 972. In 969, Jawhar conducted a well-planned and successful invasion of Egypt, which had been under the power of the Ikhshidids, another regional dynasty whose legal allegiance was to the Abbasids. Al-Mu'izz had given Jawhar particular instructions to carry out after the conquest, and one of his first activities was to establish a new capital named al-Qhira (Cairo) in 969. The name al-Qhirah, which means "the Vanquisher" or "the Conqueror," alludes to the planet Mars, "The Subduer," which was rising in the sky at the time the city was being built. SOURCE

MUSEUM ADDRESS AND TICKET ORDER, PRICE

MAP OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION