Cairo - Egyptian Museum

Room 34: the trilingual Decree of Canopus (238 B.C.), in hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek scripts.

Stone sarcophagi of the Old Kingdom.

Room 13: sarcophagi and grave goods from the Tomb of Yuya and Tuya, parents-in-law of Amenoph is III. Room 12: material from royal tombs at Thebes. Room 17: material from the tomb of the fan bearer Maherpra (18th Dynasty). Rooms 22, 27, 32 and 37 sarcophagi and grave goods of the Middle Kingdom. Room 14: Roman coffins and mummy portraits. Room 19: figures of gods and sacred animals. Rooms 24 and 29: funerary papyri, drawings on limestone fragments, sculptors' models.

Room24. head of a high official (No. 1,184); head of King Taharqa (the Tirhakah of the Old Testament; No. 1,185); the " Pithom Stela" of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (No. 851 ) Room 30: alabaster statue of princess Amenirdis (No. 930).

Room 26. limestone statue of Amenemhet III (No. 284). Room 22 (middle): tomb chamber of Harhotep, with pictures of the dead man's household goods (No. 300); ten over-life-size limestone statues of Sesostris I (Nos 301 ff.).

Room 12: Tuthmosis III as a young man, wearing the crown of Upper Egypt (No. 400); inscription recording Tuthmosis lll's victories (No. 420); statue of Eset (Isis), mother of Tuthmosis III (Case B, No. 424); Chapel of the goddess Hathor and statue of the Hathor cow dedicated by Tuthmosis III (Nos 445-446); relief of the Queen of Punt (No. 452); statues of Amenophis (Nos 459, 465, 476); statue of the god Khons (No. 462). Room 3 (Amarna period): colossal statues of Amenophis IV (Akhenaten) from his temple at Karnak (Nos 6,015, 6,016, 6,182). Room 7: sphinx with name of Queen Hatshepsut (No. 6,139) Room 13 (N portico): stela of Amenophis III (Memnon) and Merneptah (No. 599) Atrium (Rooms 18, 23, 28 and 33): colossal group of Amenophis III with his wife and three daughters (No. 610); painted pavement from palace at Tell del-Amarna (No. 627); bier of Osiris (No. 621). Room 20. granite head of Ramesses II (No. 675).

Room 42. Diorite statue of Chephren (No. 138); wooden statue known as the Village Headman (No. 140); seated figure of King Djoser (No. 6,008). Room 32: limestone statue of Prince Rahotep and his wife Nofret (No. 223); limestone statue of the priest Ranufer (Nos. 224-225); painting on stucco of six geese (No. 136E); embossed copper statue of Phiops I (No. 230).

Room 2: Furnishings of the Tomb of Queen Hetepheres, mother of Cheops.

The Rotunda houses recent acquisitions and special exhibitions.

The best view is by looking down from the upper gallery.