The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, also known as The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, is one of the world's most important museums. It contains over 120,000 items - with several thousand on display and the rest in store rooms within the museum. You need not be an expert in Egyptian antiquities to appreciate what is on offer. Whether it is the black granite cap of an ancient pyramid, or the jewels of Tutankhamen, you will
find astonishing items from Egypt's glorious past throughout the museum.
Unfortunately, photography is no longer allowed in the museum. The no-flash pictures in The Egyptian Museum in Cairo Screensaver were taken by Pixel Paradox with the express written permission of the director of the museum. The primary digital camera was a Canon Power Shot
S3 IS programmed for low light interior shooting without a flash. Click here for thumbnail sheets of images in the screensaver.
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo Screensaver presents eighty-five images from this fabulous museum. The following items are shown:
- Akhenaton with offering table in his hands
- Alabaster boat with females, one a dwarf - Tut treasure
- Alabaster boat with females, one a dwarf - Tut's treasure
- Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye
- Amenhotep III, 1391 1353 BC, New Kingdom
- Anubis Painted Statuette
- Back Osorkon IV, front Tutmosis III making offering
- Birthing stool relief from Temple of Hathor at Dendera, 330 BC
- Bracelets of Ramses II - gold and lapis lazuli
- Canopic jars chest - Anubis Upwawet
- Canopic jars with the head of Tut on each lid - missing one is on tour
- Canopic mask of Tjuyu
- Canopic shrine that held the internal organs of Tut
- Cedar coffin of Ahmose Meritamum, 1525 BC
- Coffin inlay pieces
- Coffin of Khui, 12th Dynasty - Wadjet Eyes
- Counting cattle models from tomb of Meketre, 11th Dynasty
- Djed amulets
- Double votive statue - Sim Priest of Pharaoh Unas
- Dwarf Seneb and his family
- Egyptian soldiers, tomb of Mehseti, 11th dynasty
- Figures of Isis, Nephthys, Selket and Neith guard canopic shrine of Tut
- Funerary paparus - field of reeds
- Funerary stela of Amenemhet - Painted limestone
- Gilded mummy mask of Yuya, father of Queen Tiye
- Gilded wooden statue of Tutankhamun wielding a fishing harpoon from a boat
- God Annubis guarded Tut's coffin
- Gold Mask of Tutankhamun
- Granite triad of Ramses III, with Horus on the left and Seth - restored - on the right
- Group Statue of Horemheb with Isis, Osiris, and Horus
- Hathor head - Dier El Bahari
- Hatshepsut
- Horus of Nekhen - gold and obsidian - 6th dynasty
- Ivory toy representing three pygmy dancers connected to a string, 12th Dynasty
- Ka-Aper's Wife and male statue from Saqqara
- Ka-statue of Auibre Hor
- King Ramesses II as boy with falcon
- Lid of the coffin of Ramses II
- Limestone scribe, 5th Dynasty - from Saqqara
- Limestone statue
- Lower fragment of the Lybian Palatte, 3000 BC
- Main Hall with Colosus Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye
- Man kneeling on a rectangular base and holding the sistrum, emblem of the goddess Hathor
- Merneptah Stele, aka Isreal Stele
- Mryneit and his wife
- Museum of Egyptian Antiquities - Cairo - 3D model
- Museum of Egyptian Antiquities - Cairo
- Noble tomb statuette
- Nut the sky goddess - underside of King Merenptah's coffin, reused at Tanis by Psusennes I
- Old Kingdom scribes, tomb statues
- Osiris-headed incense burner
- Percussion clappers of hippo ivory in the shape of hands, New Kingdom
- Pharaoh Hatshepsut
- Possibly the sarcophagus of Akhenaten
- Prince Rahotep and Princess Nofret
- Pyramidion of the pyramid of Amenemhet III at Dashur, 1844 BC
- Ramesses II as boy with falcon
- Resin statue of god Ihy, tomb of Tut
- Sankhkare Mentuhotep wall fragment
- Sarchophagus funerary texts exterior
- Sarchophagus relief shows Ba, Mummy, and Canopic Jars
- Sarophagus of Merneptah, reused by Psusennes I
- Senwosret I embracing the god Ptah
- Sesostris I, 1929 BC
- Sphinx of female Pharaoh Hatshepsut
- Sphinx of Hatshepsut
- Statue of Akhenaten
- Statue of an Armana royal female - possibly Meritaten
- Statue of Pharaoh Chefren, aka Khafre
- Statues of Sesostris I cluster round his shrine
- Statuette of Khufu, 2528 BC
- The child Tut on a Lotus - relating him to the Sun god
- The god Khonsu with the face of Tutankhamun
- The third and innermost coffin of Tjuyu, aka Toeja
- Thoth as dog-headed baboon Cynochephalus
- Throne of Tutankhamun
- Triad of Menkaure
- Tut's gilded wooden chariot
- Tutankhamen pectoral necklace
- Tutankhamun Carried by Menkaret
- Upwawet, opener of the passage to the afterlife
- Ushabtis figures from Tut's tomb
- Votive block statue of Amun and consort
- Votive statuette with false door
- Wooden boat models from tomb of Meketre, 11th Dynasty
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