The Weblog of Spring Tours Egypt

While working on the project of developing the Egyptian Museum, a monument cache was discovered near the western door’s stair in the western part of the Egyptian Museum in el-Tahrir.

The cache is part of four other parts of a broken inscription that contain limestone hieroglyphic writing. It was divided into two parts with some hieroglyphic signs.

these monuments were buried in the past in this place through the Egyptian Museum archeologists when they were transferring the monuments from the archeological sites to the museum for storage. The Museum archeologists were examining the ancient monuments to burry the artificial pieces but these genuine ones were buried by mistake. The museum in el-Tahrir was set up and opened in 1902 by Auguste Mariette who was a distant relative of Champollion the decipherer of the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone.

On the other hand, the Grand Egyptian Museum is still under construction, but the opening date is not yet fixed.