Egypt tour 5/8 (2)

£ ½ £ ½ £ ½ £ ½ £ ½ £ ½ £ ½ £ ½ £ ½ Egypt Museum = =

Egypt Museum was opened in 1902, is the world's most famous and largest museums of ancient Egypt.

The Museum collection of ancient Egypt from prehistoric times to the Roman period in Greece, statues, paintings, gold and silver utensils, jewellery, handicrafts, coffin, Tablet, Papyrus documents more than 30 million, of which most of the exhibits dating more than 3000 years.

The Museum is divided into two levels, including more than 100 showrooms and a large library.

Museum entrance design incorporates the features of ancient Egypt art: the gate of the exterior is a round arches, and arches on both sides of the niche there is a will in the Pharaoh of the relief image of continental, one holding a paper Sedge, another holding Lotus, a symbol of ancient Egypt respectively, North and South.

1 layer display BC 27 ~ 22 centuries before the time of ancient Egypt to the 5-6th century Roman domination epoch of history and heritage; 2 layer set mummies, jewellery, coffins, paintings, funerary objects, Papyrus instruments and other thematic showroom.

Most notably 18th pharaonic sakaltutan scammon tomb unearthed more than relics of 1700, with golden throne, Golden mask, gold coffin, gold ornaments, sakaltutan scammon and Queen of exquisite brief relief like, Pharaoh's silhouette car carriers and hunting with bow in order, the mosaic of ivory and stained glass furniture, Queen of jewellery and suitcases.

Because the Museum is not to take pictures, trembling sly mobile phone according to down several sheets.

Egypt Museum, if you have time, you should at least take a day to look at.

(3300 years ago Akendengue NATHON pharaonic statues)

5.2 Alexander Pompeii ruins of Castle columns Lighthouse & & Eastern Mediterranean Summer Palace library

Early morning departure from Cairo, travel nearly three hours, we arrived at the Roman Tomb near Alexandria.

Tomb belonged to Roman times, compared to Cairo's monuments in time till it was too late for thousands of years. But quite spectacular scale underground tomb, built in a well, a total of three layers. The bottom layer was submerged, not open to visitors. Since the ancient period are not allowed to bring your camera, so images can not be left behind. Tomb mural incorporates ancient Egypt and the ancient Roman painting features, but the line stiff, sketch rough, compared Pharaonic times of murals in the arts.

In around half an hour, when feeling comes out of the blue sky, especially, the fresh air especially.

So hidden tomb or after the 1st Millennium was found and opened to visitors, for passing people, in the end it says what it means is unclear.

Pompeii columns, was built in a.d. 297 years root length 20.75, consists of a block of red granite chisel, originally to have over 400 pillar surrounds this Optimus Prime, is now around the stone columns have disappeared in me, but still has left Pompeii column.

1000 years, Alexander has undergone tremendous changes, many famous monuments or in ruins, or disappeared, but this root Pompeii-standing erect, now a symbol of the city of Alexandria.

Pre-column two Sphinx, is said to be from the Luxor Temple handling.

Columns left and right side also in mining, Nile have in column on land, as before, there was also built theatre and other buildings. You can see, scattered on the floor of stone engraved with ancient Egypt in the pictographs and some sculpture painting.

(Pompeii column)

Lighthouse ruins in Alexander Ross island outside the law, founded on 280 years BC.

According to written records, the lighthouse by 4-layer composition, the lighthouse area of about 930 m 2, up to 180 m, all-white limestone, granite, marble and bronze, the weather is great.

But after several earthquakes, lighthouse in 1435, completely destroyed.

1480, with its stone castles in situ to King named Coach Carter. The Castle, facing the Eastern Mediterranean, from the top of the Castle overlooking the beautiful Eastern Mediterranean.

(Castle)

Montaza Palace Garden, also known as a summer resort, located in the eastern city of Alexander, 155.4 hectares, surrounded, is a style of garden architecture in Florence, you can view the Eastern Mediterranean, the landscape is very beautiful.

It is Egypt last King Farouk's Palace, now it has been read Guest House.

The garden is full of family fun with out from the crowd and the young women and men walk hand in hand.

(Montaza Palace)

Alexandria Library was founded in the 3rd century b.c., 2000 years ago exactly what it look like, but no one knows.

Today only sporadic from historical documents recorded in understanding, because it's not even a real also left no stones; whereas a large number of archaeological clues seem to have no conclusive. People only know the Alexandria library built in 259 BC. Then Chinese bamboo prevalence is about; Lao, Confucius, Cambridge University Press ideas began to spread across the ages. It is said that Alexander library collections about 54000 volumes.

Now the Alexandria Library in 1995 after reconstruction, the occupying a land area of 4 thousand square meters, its styling is from 77 countries design optimization, external to the Eastern Mediterranean slant allegedly circular building as both Miss the ancient circular port

And think of the universe.

Steel-framed glass roof and roof of the winged lens into the diffusion of light, and as the Sun moves constantly changes.

Library of wall consists of 2 m wide and 1 m high stone built, 6300-square stone walls carved with Arabic text, designs, symbols, in addition to music and mathematical symbols, and world cultures of text symbols; these designs are hand-chiseled. We find the Chinese characters for "class".

(Bibliotheca Alexandrina)

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