Guide to Egyptian museums
In the past, photography was forbidden in Egyptian museums. Now you can take photos at will in RMB in 25 yuan, but you can't take photos in Tutankhamun exhibition hall and mummy room. If you don't buy tickets, people who occasionally take out their mobile phones or pads to take pictures in the museum will be stopped immediately by the staff.
The Egyptian Museum has only two floors.
The first floor: historical relics from ancient Egypt in the 27th-22nd century BC to Roman rule in the 5th-6th century BC.
The second floor: there is a special exhibition room to display mummies, jewels, coffins, paintings, funerary objects and papyrus documents.
In the National Museum of Egypt, this refers to four or five thousand years of history. There are countless treasures in the town hall, and the amazing sense of age and mystery everywhere is full of purity and mystery. I feel like I'm in a huge coffin shop. Mummies and exquisite wooden coffins are everywhere.
Tutankhamun exhibition
Tutankhamun's exhibition is excellent. It's in a special hall, but you can't take pictures.
The coffin inside is extremely luxurious. Gold is inlaid with various gems, and Tutankhamun's gold mask is really exquisite. Imagine the process more than 4000 years ago, and it can't be completely imitated so far. Compared with some murals and utensils, it is extremely exquisite and gorgeous, and there are all kinds of gold-inlaid jewels he used at that time, which are bright and gorgeous.
Archaeological excavation and "Pharaoh's curse"
Howard carter, born in London, has an obsessive passion for art and Egyptology. By chance, he had an indissoluble bond with the exploration activities of Tutankhamun's mausoleum. Pharaoh held the scepter in his right hand, Hades' whip in his left hand, and his hands crossed on his chest. There is also a humanoid gold-plated wooden coffin in the golden statue coffin. Open the coffin again, and there is a long object wrapped in cloth. Is it a mummy? The atmosphere at the scene was tense, and after the parcel cloth was carefully opened, everyone was ashamed. It turned out that there was a human coffin inside, but it was made of pure gold. This coffin is the mummy of Pharaoh wrapped in linen. I saw him covered with jewels and amulets, wearing a Jin Mianju on his face and a wreath on his chest.
Mummy storage hall
So far, 600 coffins and 170 mummies have been stored here. The Mummy Exhibition Hall is on the second floor. You need to pay 50 yuan RMB for the visit. The world-famous mummy of Ramses II is buried here. There are many mummies on display in the mummy room, but they are basically unopened, unlike those in the Pharaoh's mummy room, they are all open.
Lao Wang's teeth are very good, white and not ground, with high cheekbones and high brow bones. I carefully compared the differences between other mummies and Ramses II. He is a typical Caucasian with high cheekbones on his nose. The most important thing is that he has blond hair. The rest of the mummies are linen and black. I thought it was because of genetic changes that I didn't know it was hair dyeing until I asked. He said that Egyptians were still using hair dyeing technology at that time.
Matters needing attention
1. The cultural relics related to Tutankhamun are on the second floor of the museum, and the treasures of the town hall, Jin Mianju and Jin Coffin, have special exhibition halls on the second floor.
It is not allowed to take photos in the exhibition room of Pharaoh's mummy. Tickets are purchased separately in the independent exhibition room on the second floor. One of the most famous pharaoh mummies belongs to ramses ii.
Tutankhamun's mummy is not in the museum now, but in the tomb of the Valley of the Kings. Tutankhamun is not the richest Pharaoh in Egyptian history, but he is famous because most of the tombs of the Pharaoh have been stolen, and 80% of the funerary objects in the world belong to him alone. Tutankhamun died very young, only 19 years old. When the mummy was unearthed, he was injured in the back of his head and fractured his calf, so he was suspected of being murdered. When the mummy was opened, he was suspected of being murdered.