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Egyptian museum of Cairo
The Egyptian Museum guards the biggest collection of objects of the Pharaonic epoch of the Ancient Egypt, with a whole of more than 120.000 classified objects. The works began in 1897 and it was inaugurated in 1902.
In the Museum there are exhibited objects of all the periods of the Ancient Egypt, increasing the quantity from the year 1922, year in which there was discovered the grave of Tutankamón and all the treasures that it was lodging. The first floor of the museum is dedicated to the sculpture, to the identical reliefs and to the sarcofagi. The first plant is dedicated in most cases to the funeral Tutankamón trousseau.
