Luxor - Museum of Ancient Egyptian Art

From the entrance hall a short flight of steps leads to the ground floor. Notable items here include an alabaster group depicting Amenophis III under the protection of the crocodile god Sobek (from Dahamsha),

Also on the upper floor is the museum's pièce de résistance, the so-called Wall of Akhenaten. 56ft/17.17m long and some 10ft/3m high, this consists of 283 sandstone blocks (talatat) covered with painted reliefs out of a total of 6,000 such blocks, originally belonging to Akhenaten's Temple of the Sun at Karnak, which were found built into Horemheb's Ninth Pylon during restoration work in 1968-69. On the right hand half of the wall temple servants are depicted at their everyday tasks; on the left hand half Akhenaten, sometimes accompanied by his wife Nefertiti, is shown worshiping the Aten, the divine solar disc with rays ending in hands. Altogether some 40,000 of such talatat have been recovered, coming from the various temples which were built by Akhenaten in honor of the sun god and which were later pulled down.

In the rotunda is the gilded head of a cow goddess (from the Tomb of Tutankhamun).

In the entrance hall, on the right, is the head of a colossal statue of Amenophis III in reddish granite (from Qurna).

Notable items here include a head of Sesostris III in reddish granite (found at Karnak in 1970), a statue of Tuthmosis III in greenish graywacke (from Karnak), a bust of Amenophis 11 wearing the double crown (reddish granite; from Karnak), a large and historically important limestone stela celebrating Kamose's victory over the Hyksos (from Karnak) and a squatting figure of Yamu-Nedieh in black granite (from Qurna).

The Interior of the museum is attractively laid out on two levels, and the many valuable items in the collection are excellently displayed and lit.

A number of items are displayed in the area in front of the museum, including a statue of Amenophis III from Qurna and a stela from Karnak with a figure of Amenophis II as an archer.

From the ground floor a ramp (on the wall Coptic tombstones, half way up a niche from a Coptic church in the Luxor area, at the top a head of Tuthmosis I) leads to the upper floor. First come a number of cases containing small objects (amulets, jewelry, silver bowls, foundation deposits, coins, etc.), grave goods and tomb furnishings, mythological papyri, votive tablets, dedicatory stelae, prehistoric pottery, etc., together with a chest containing canopic jars from Queen Hatshepsut's Temple at Deir el-Bahri. Other items of interest include a seated figure of the Vizier Amenhotep (son of Hapu; 12th Dynasty) writing, a head of Amenophis IV (Akhenaten) in the Early Amarna style, reliefs from Hatshepsut's granite chapel in the Temple of Karnak (depicting musicians, dancers, acrobats, etc.), various small objects from the Tomb of Tutankhamun (including his sandals) and portraits and statues of the Roman period.