Category: akhenaten
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Akhenaten, Stelas, Paintings, Obelisks
Many Roman Emperors celebrated their rise into power by bringing an obelisk from the province of Egypt to Rome, by that time, capital of the Roman Empire. And obelisk is a one piece, solid rock, architectural structure with ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs weighting at most 1300 tons. With today’s technology is very hard to move one…
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The Egyptian Museum Cairo
UNESCO World heritage site The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the Egyptian Museum, located in Cairo, Egypt, houses the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world. It houses over 120,000 items, with a representative amount on display. Located in Tahrir Square in a building built in 1901, it is the largest museum…