Introduction to the collection: The museum has three exhibition halls. The ground floor is mainly used to display tall sculptures. The most prominent one is Ramesses II (1299 BC - 33 BC) carved from black diorite. ) and the colossus of Sisi II. The upper floor mainly displays collections representing the entire Egyptian civilization: weavings, farming tools, fishing tools, hunting tools, and ancient documents on papyrus (said to include the world's oldest topographic map). There is also a tomb of Hay and Mari (14th century BC).

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