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Earth & Space Science Museum: Elizabeth: Jo Daviess: Northern Illinois: Science: Operated by the Planetary Studies Foundation, includes dinosaur bones, fossils, and the U.S. space program: Homepage: Easley Pioneer Museum: Ipava: Fulton: Western: Local history: Includes history of World War II Army Camp Ellis: Eastern Illinois University Lab ...
Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts [1] (due to being partly opened in 2018, currently housed in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo) British Museum , London, England: Over 100,000 artifacts [ 2 ] (not including the 2001 donation of the six million artifact Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory) [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, four mummies – the priestess Hortesnakht of Akhmim, [33] the lady Rer of Saqqara, [33] an unidentified man from the 4th or 3rd century BCE (known as "the mummy from Szombathely" after the location of the previous collection he was part of) [34] and a man from the 2nd century BCE (known as "the unwrapped mummy" as he was already unwrapped when the museum ...
The British Museum conducted its own excavations in Egypt where it received divisions of finds, including Asyut (1907), Mostagedda and Matmar (1920s), Ashmunein (1980s) and sites in Sudan such as Soba, Kawa and the Northern Dongola Reach (1990s). The size of the Egyptian collections now stand at over 110,000 objects. [3]
The Keeper of Egypt and Sudan is head of the Department of Egypt and Sudan (formerly Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, Department of Egyptian Antiquities, and Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan). 1893–1924: E. A. Wallis Budge; 1924–1930: Henry Hall; 1931–1948: Sidney Smith [5] 1948–1955: C. J. Gadd; 1955–1974: I. E ...
The British Museum states that it “takes its commitment to be a world museum seriously. The collection is a unique resource to explore the richness, diversity and complexity of all human history ...
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. [3] It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
Over 150 scientists went with Napoleon Bonaparte when he invaded Egypt. They mapped pyramids, dissected mummies, and did more scientific work. 9 scientific breakthroughs that resulted from ...