The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum, in Cairo,Egypt, is home to an extensive collection of Ancient Egyptian antiquities. It has 120,000 items, with a representative amount on display, the remainder in storerooms.
The museum's Royal Mummy Room, containing 27 royal mummies from pharaonic times.
The Egyptian Museum of Antiquities contains many important pieces of ancient Egyptian history.
It houses the world’s largest collection of Pharaonic antiquities, and many treasures of King Tutankhamen.
The Egyptian government established the museum, built in 1835 near the Ezbekeyah Garden.
then moved to Boulaq in 1858, because the original building was getting to be too small to hold all of the artifacts
In 1855, shortly after the artifacts were moved, Duke Maximilian of Austria
was given all of the artifacts. He hired a French architect to design
and construct a new museum for the antiquities.
The new building was to
be constructed on the bank of the Nile River in Boulaq.
In 1878, after the museum has been completed for some time, it suffered some irreversible damage; a flood of the Nile River caused the antiquities to be relocated to another museum, in Giza.
The artifacts remained there until 1902 when they were moved, for the last time, to the current museum in Tahrir Square.
During the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, the museum was broken into, and two mummies were reportedly destroyed. Several artifacts were also shown to have been damaged
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