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  2. British Museum Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan

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    The seven permanent Egyptian galleries at the British Museum, which include its largest exhibition space (Room 4, for monumental sculpture), can display only 4% of its Egyptian holdings. The second-floor galleries have a selection of the museum's collection of 140 mummies and coffins, the largest outside Cairo. A high proportion of the ...

  3. List of museums of Egyptian antiquities - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. British Museum - Wikipedia

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    The seven permanent Egyptian galleries at the British Museum, which include its largest exhibition space (Room 4, for monumental sculpture), can display only 4% of its Egyptian holdings. The second-floor galleries have a selection of the museum's collection of 140 mummies and coffins, the largest outside Cairo. A high proportion of the ...

  5. Exhibitions of artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun

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    It was first shown in London at the British Museum in 1972. After a year of negotiations between Egypt and the United Kingdom, an agreement was signed in July 1971. Altogether, 50 pieces were chosen by the directors of the British Museum and the Cairo Museum to be shown at the exhibition, including 17 never before displayed outside Egypt. For ...

  6. 9 scientific breakthroughs that resulted from Napoleon's ...

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    The Rosetta Stone is housed at the British Museum. Fox Photos/Getty Images For centuries, no one could read hieroglyphs, the pictorial writing that covered many Egyptian monuments.

  7. Which artefacts have the British Museum been urged to return?

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    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 ...

  8. List of museums with Egyptian mummies in their collections

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    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 ...

  9. List of largest museums - Wikipedia

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    Egypt: Museum of Science and Industry: Chicago: 1933 Science and technology: 37,000 m 2 (400,000 sq ft) [12] more than 35,000 United States: Minneapolis Institute of Art: Minneapolis: 1883 Art 50,600 m 2 (545,000 sq ft) [13] 32,000 m 2 (340,000 sq ft) [14] More than 100,000 [15] United States: National Museum of Natural History: Washington, D.C ...

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