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Grandad wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:14 am
Thanks for that Newcastle The exhibits seem to be well displayed and particularly well lit. It could have benefitted with a commentary though because so many items are quite beautiful and an explanation would have been useful.
This is the museum of Egyptian culture and includes faurly recent exhibits. Do I take it that the Tahrir museum continues to function as ancient Egypt? For some reason I was under the impression that the new museum was to replace the old one, but I confess that having not been to Egypt for nearly 10 years I am a bit out of touch........
I think the idea was for it to become a centre of excellence for teaching egyptology, with rotating exhibitions of artefacts. There is also some question over the ownership of its gardens...immensely valuable real estate.
Interesting item on the BBC news site about a statue of Osiris in Manchester Museum that has been mysteriously turning circles
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There's intermittent smoke rising from Abu Haggag area, but it might be from the hager of Ahmeds Shisha. Looking across the river to Luxor all seems reasonably quiet as usual.
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The exhibits seem to be well displayed and particularly well lit. It could have benefitted with a commentary though because so many items are quite beautiful and an explanation would have been useful.
