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museums: Transparent Stone!
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  • sayedaburas
  • Updated By sayedaburas on April 30, 2005
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  • goddess .... - Alexandria
    goddess ....
    by sayedaburas
    Guess!

    Do you need a clue? It was one of the submerged monuments at Abu Qir Gulf!!*

    Let me help!

    Isis is one of the most important goddesses in ancient Egyptian religion. She was the goddess of love and the symbol of devotion as a wife and mother. She was the goddess of maternity, and protector of mother and child.She was worshipped all over Egypt,

    Headless statue of a woman (probably the goddess Isis), in a striding posture, in which the left leg is advanced. She is dressed in a transperent garment that accentuates the beauty of her body. The dress is tied on the left shoulder in a knot. The right arm is stretched along the side of the body and the hand is missing. The feet are also missing.

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  • Address: Alexandria, Egypt
  • Directions: Museum of Bibliotheca Alexandrina
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    museums: The Greek Deity
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  • sayedaburas
  • Updated By sayedaburas on May 3, 2005
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  • Greek god Zeus / Jupiter - Alexandria
    Greek god Zeus / Jupiter
    by sayedaburas
    Ancient Greeks worshipped Zeus, and considered him the father of all their gods.

    The photo is part of a msterpiece bronze statue at Athens. Some think that it may be sea god Poseidon.

    Yes, I can feel yor inquiry...!?*

    Guess! Why is this mentioned here, now?

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  • Address: Athens, Greece
  • Directions: Athens National Museum
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    museums: National Museum of Alexandria
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  • Updated By MalenaN on November 2, 2005
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  • Mummie cases at the National Museum of Alexandria - Alexandria
    Mummie cases at the National
    Museum of Alexandria
    by MalenaN, 3 more photos
    The third day I was in Alexandria I had planed to visit the Graeco Roman Museum, but during breakfast I was told there was a new, very good museum, which was not mentioned in most of the guide books jet. I decided to go there instead, to the National Museum of Alexandria, and I liked it very much.
    The museum is housed in the old Bassili Pasha Palace on Fouad Street (Tariq al-Horreyya) and has impressive historic artifacts from different periods of Egyptian history. On the ground floor (basement) there is an exhibition showing things from Phoraonic period. On the first floor are artifacts from the Graeco - Roman period, and some of the items found during the archaeological underwater excavations in Alexandria. On the second floor are exhibitions of Coptic and Islamic Egypt.
    The artifacts are displayed in a good way with signs and texts to read.
    Entrance fee is 30 pounds (July 2005).

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    museums: Alexandria National Museum
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  • By Tijavi on August 10, 2007
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  • Bust of Akhenaten - Alexandria
    Bust of Akhenaten
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    The Alexandria National Museum is one of the city's latest initiatives to improve its tourist image and capitalize on the millions of visitors that visit Egypt's ancient sites. But unlike Luxor's little great museum and the overwhelming Egyptian Museum in Cairo, this one empasizes Alexandria's Hellenic heritage with a sprinkiling of exhibits from the Pharaonic, Ottoman and Islamic periods.

    Sort of reflecting its ambition to be one of the leading museums in Egypt, the museum is housed in grand style - in a beautifully renovated palace, the Al-Saad Bassili Pasha Palace (formerly owned by a wealthy merchant). The palace itself is surrounded by sprawling gardens.

    Beyond these grand surroundings, the exhibits are done well with dramatic lighting (in many cases) and professional labeling. My favorite exhibits were the sculptured heads of Akhenaten (in the picture) and the mosaic tiles from the Hellenic period. The classical Greek sculptures were also a treat.

    Entrance fee as of May 2007: EGP 30

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  • Address: Fouad Street (Tariq al-Horreyya)
  • Directions: From downtown, take a cab to the museum - costs about EGP 5-10 depending on your haggling skills.
  • Website: http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/alexandrianationalmuseum.htm
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    museums: Graeco-Roman Museum
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  • By kenmerk on January 3, 2004
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  • Graeco-Roman Museum, Alexandria.... - Alexandria
    Graeco-Roman Museum,
    Alexandria....
    by kenmerk
    Quite a pleasant little museum that covers the Greek and Roman periods in Egypt. The museum has many fine exhibits of statues, coins, and other artifacts from these eras. (as well as the various mummies that I have pictured in the other tips here....)

    Located at 5 Al-Mathaf ar-Romani. Costs 16 Egyptian Pounds for admission.

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    museums: MUSEUM OF ALEXANDRIA
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  • By sarrahh on May 9, 2005
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  • MUSUEM - Alexandria
    MUSUEM
    by sarrahh
    More than 1800 archaeological pieces are exhibited chronologically from one floor to the next: the basement is devoted to Prehistoric and Pharonic times; first floor to the Graeco-Roman period; second floor to the Coptic and Islamic era that highlights artifacts raised during recent underwater excavations.
    Attraction type: History museum

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  • Address: Fouad Street, near the centre of the city
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    museums: Graeco-Roman Museum
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  • By mightywease on September 28, 2003
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  • The front of the museum - Alexandria
    The front of the museum
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    The museum houses the largest collecetion of Graeco-Roman artifacts in Egypt.
    Highlights include a black granite statue of an Apis Bull and the god Serapis, from the Serapeum, a small collection of sarcophagi and mummys, a mummified crocodile and statues of Roman gods and goddesses.
    It's a fascinating museum and well worth visiting but the labelling on the exhibits is not always very informative.
    There is a small cafe in the very pleasant courtyard garden.
    Cost: 8.00 Egyptian pounds each

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  • Address: 5 Sharia el-Mathaf
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    museums: greco-roman museum
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  • TomorrowsAngel
  • By TomorrowsAngel on November 11, 2003
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  • museums - Alexandria
    by TomorrowsAngel
    The museum was first built in 1892 as a small building located on Horreya Road, it transferred in 1895 to the present site near Gamal Abdul Nasser Road. It started with eleven galleries, and has been gradually enlarged in later renovation stages. The 25th gallery was inaugurated in 1984.
    It houses collections of rare Greek and Roman relics and coins - about 40 thousand pieces in total. The collection ranges from the Third Century B.C. to the Seventh Century AD, including the "Tanagra" collection. And is a fascinating record of civilization in the process of change as religions merged and society evolved.
    In Alexandria, Greco-Roman and Pharaonic religions mingled in the cult of Serapes; the shift from pagan religions to Christianity can also be seen in the exhibits which include mummies, Hellenistic statues, busts of Roman emperors, Tangara figurines, and early Christian antiquities.

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    museums: Alexandria has lots of...
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  • Sameh
  • By Sameh on August 27, 2002
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  • museums - Alexandria
    by Sameh
    Alexandria has lots of activities to do. It was build by Alexander the gerat. Lots of historical places to go. I will mention only the Romanian Meusem and the ampthy theater

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    museums: The National Museum
    dgines
  • By dgines on July 1, 2007
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  • While smaller than its much larger sister museum in downtown Cairo, the National Museum in Alexandria is much better maintained and organized.

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