The Egyption Museum – Cairo
- The museum is opened
daily , from 9.00 a.m.
until 7.00 p.m. The museum is located in the center of cairo , in tahrir square , it was built in
1901 during the reign of khedive abbas hilmi II . The french egyptologist
auguste mariette who founded the museum in
1858 became the director of antiquities . His remains lie in a sarcophagus in
the garden of the museum . There are 120.000 artifacts in the museum . for a
visitor to see the entire museum and look at each piece for just one minute , he
would need 120.000 minutes .
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