EGYPT MUSEUM

MY HUSBAND, MY SON, AND I VISITED A MUSEUM DEDICATED TO ANCIENT EGYPT.  THEY ALSO HAVE A PLANETARIUM.  IT HAS THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF EGYPTION ART IN NORTH AMERICA.  IT FEATURES HUMANS AND ANIMAL MUMMIES AND CANOPIES THEY HAVE A GALLERY OF DAILY LIFE THAT WAS FOR A MODEL OF PEOPLE WORK FROM GAMES TO PERSONAL CARE , TRADE, AND EDUCATION AND ARTIFACTS.

IN THERE KINGSHIP AND RELIGIOUS SECTION THEY WIILL HAVE STATUARY AND JEWEL DATING BACK TO THE RULERS AKHAHATEN  AND HS SON KING TVT IN THE 18TH CENTURY.

THE SHRINES GALLERY ARE FULL OF REAL REAL REPLICAS OF ART STUARY AND A SMALL REPLICA OF A STEP PYRAMID.   THE MIDDLE KINGDOM TOMB IS AN EERIE EXPERIENCE.  IT IS A REPLICA BUILT IN 1935 OF AN OFFERING AND BURIAL CHAMBER ADORNED WITH HIEROGLYPHIC WALL PAINTINGS.

CATS WERE FIRST DOMESTICATED IN EGYPT,  THEY WERE WILD IN 6000 B.C. YEARS AGO.  ALL OF CATS TODAY DESCENDED FROM EGYPTIAN WILD CATS.  THE EGYPTIANS CONSIDERED THEM TO BE PROTECTORS OF THE HOUSE.  THEY WERE CALLED 'THE MEOW'.   THEY WERE MADE FROM BRONZE, WOOD, AND MUMMIES.  SOME CATS WERE BURIED  WITH THEIR OWNER.  TODAY THEY STILL QARE TREATED WELL.  SOME OF THEIR STELLA DATE BETWEEN 2195 B.C. AND
2066B.C.
 
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