The Egyptian Museum, in Tahrir, includes many distinctive jewelry, including a necklace belonging to King "Psusnes the First", which is made of 14 gold chains.
The necklace was discovered around the neck of the mummy of King Susunis I (circa 1039--991 BC), one of the kings of the Twenty-first Dynasty in Egypt.
It is one of the three necklaces of King Susunis the First, and it is almost entirely made of gold. It consists of fourteen branched gold chains that end with lotus flowers that end in two of these chains. In turn, it is divided into two other chains, and it is related to five rows of thin golden discs grouped side by side linking them. Central clip with two names of the king.
The necklace was discovered around the neck of the mummy of King Susunis I (circa 1039--991 BC), one of the kings of the Twenty-first Dynasty in Egypt.
It is one of the three necklaces of King Susunis the First, and it is almost entirely made of gold. It consists of fourteen branched gold chains that end with lotus flowers that end in two of these chains, which in turn divide them into two other chains, and are attached to five rows of thin golden discs grouped side by side linking them Central clip with two names of the king.
The history of the establishment of the museum, with the great international attention it received - to the decipherment of the Rosetta Stone at the hands of the French scientist Champollion, and the first nucleus of the museum was in a small house at the ancient pool of Azbakeya in the center of Cairo, where Muhammad Ali Pasha in 1835 ordered the registration of fixed Egyptian antiquities and the transfer of antiquities The value for it was called the Azbakeya Museum, and it was supervised by Rafaa Al-Tahtawi.
The Bulaq area was chosen to establish a museum of Egyptian antiquities, and the antiquities found during the excavations were transferred to it, such as the effects of the cemetery of "Aah Hotep". In 1863 AD, Khedive Ismail approved the project to establish a museum of Egyptian antiquities, but the project was not implemented.
In 1897, Khedive Abbas Helmy II laid the foundation stone for the Egyptian Museum, which is located on the northern side of Tahrir Square, in the center of Cairo.
The design of the museum was chosen from among the 73 designs that were presented to officials at that time, and the design of the French engineer Marcel Dornon, who built it in the style of classical Greek-Roman architecture, while preserving the pharaonic character in the interior design of the museum halls, the entrance hall simulates the shrine of Egyptian temples, and the rooms simulate a temple Edfu, as for the façade of the museum, it is in the French style with circular arches, decorated with marble paintings by the most famous and famous archaeologists in the world, and on either side of the wooden entrance door are two large pebble statues of two women in the Roman style, but with Pharaonic heads.
The museum consists of two floors, the ground of which is designated for heavy monuments such as stone sarcophagi, statues, paintings and wall inscriptions. As for the upper one, it is devoted to light antiquities such as manuscripts, statues of gods and royal mummies, monuments of daily life, images of mummies, incomplete sculptures, statues and utensils of the Greco-Roman era, and relics of other life beliefs, as well as complete collections such as Tutankhamun’s collection, and the museum includes a huge number of Egyptian antiquities since ancient times Before history until the end of the Pharaonic era, in addition to some Greek and Roman antiquities.
On the left side of the museum garden there is a marble cemetery made for "August Marit" in reference to his discovery and preservation of the Egyptian antiquities and the cemetery is surrounded by a statue of him, and around the cemetery there are statues of Egyptian archaeologists such as Ahmed Pasha Kamal, Maspero and others, and in the center of the garden there is a fountain bearing the papyrus plants The lotus, which represent the symbol of Lower and Upper Egypt, respectively, along with obelisks dating back to the nineteenth dynasty of King Ramses II.
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