Within the walls of this vault-like exhibit area, you will find precious jewels, stone carvings and giant tombs. While many of the precious pieces of art lie behind glass walls, some of the most impressive stone carvings and slabs lie right in the middle of the floor, with nothing between you but the temptation to touch. I was transported to a world long gone, and I found myself feeling faint. The collection consists of approximately 36,000 objects dating from the Paleolithic to the Roman period

Besides the other disturbances previously listed, one of the things I didn't find so appealing was the lack of consistency in the sections. They did not flow logically from one place to another. This added to the accumulating exhaustion. Another aspect that bothered me was the language used in the markers and labels used in depicting the items. To a non-native English speaker, it would be extremely difficult to understand what was being said. I think that clearly this illustrates that the exhibition is geared to an audience that must have, at least, college level historical education. It would be fair to say that this could use some improvement. Everyone needs a chance, no? All in all, I still believe the exhibition presented very well the aesthetic values, history, religious beliefs, and daily life of the ancient Egyptians, and perhaps one-day perfection may arise.

Locating the beginning of the exhibit was a bit difficult. As I previously mentioned, the exhibit consists of thirty-two galleries making it an extremely large exhibit. Some of the galleries have sub-sections called studies. It wasn't clear to us what this meant and it seemed like no one in the staff really knew what "study" was. The security guards, placed at different points throughout the museum, were not of much help. They send us to a map on the walls that were also a little confusing. Finally we where able to locate the beginning of the exhibit and thus commence the journey. The first thing you see is an illustration of a temple of the Fifth Dynasty with its description. It took me a while to discover that there were thirty-two sections and that there were in chronological order. I was a bit off. What was this temple doing in Gallery 1 Dynasty 0? As no explanation was given, I continued on towards Gallery 2- Dynasties 1-10. Here there where examples of linen, frames for couches, stone plates, statues. All located behind glass walls and with their appropriate markers explaining a little about the origin and assumption or facts about what the piece meant. Gallery 3 to 5 depicted the eleventh Dynasty. Included here was also a sub-section (4A) study. It is in this Gallery that we see the finest preserved artifacts discovered in the tomb of Chancellor Meketre. I did not know this till much later when I visited Gallery 4A where brief explanations were given for the various artifacts throughout the gallery 4. My initial reaction was: shouldn't this be before the models presented in Gallery 4? Another interesting fact is that this small room is almost invisible and not easily perceived. It is almost hidden. If it weren't for my boyfriend who noticed it accidentally, I would h

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