A trove of greater than 160 treasures from the tomb of King Tutankhamun has been transferred from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo to the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, forward of its lengthy awaited launch on 3 July.
In response to the Egyptian Gazette, the 163 gadgets handed over embrace a ceremonial chair relationship from the New Kingdom (round 1550-1070 BC) inlaid with ivory and gold, and an accompanying footstool “embellished with intricate gilded motifs depicting Egypt’s conventional enemies”.
The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities says in an announcement that the transfer is “a part of a plan to switch and show the whole assortment of the younger king for the primary time in a single place”. The museum’s restoration crew will perform conservation work as required on key objects, provides the ministry.
In a Fb publish dated 10 Could, The Egyptian Museum in Cairo says that it “nonetheless retains the foremost and distinctive artifacts within the museum’s exhibition so far [including] the well-known funerary golden masks and golden coffins of the king”.
The museum says on-line that the golden masks is the “most well-known of all of the artefacts of historical Egypt, a real icon of the pharaonic civilisation”. It goes on to say that the article would be the final to be transported to the brand new museum in Giza.
The Grand Egyptian Museum, positioned on the Giza Plateau, is because of open to the general public 3 July. In a preview, we revealed how guests will ascend a large slope—residence to the world’s first hanging obelisk—in direction of a pyramid-shaped doorway flanked by hieroglyphs. Contained in the huge atrium stands a monumental, 3,200-year-old statue of Ramesses II, encircled by shallow swimming pools.
