الثلاثاء، 12 يونيو 2012

Alexandria National Museum


Alexandria National Museum is a museum in the city of Alexandria in Egypt.
The museum contains over 1,800 artifacts representing most of the ages that passed over the city which was founded in 332 BC. M.
The Museum is a former palace of  wealthy timber merchant in the city, "Assad Basile," which he created the palace in the style of Italian architecture.
The palace was sold in 1954 to the U.S. Embassy with $ 53 thousand Egyptian pounds, and then bought by the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt with $ 12 million Egyptian pounds, which convert it to the national museum of the city. The former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak inaugurated on September 1, 2003.

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