THE LOWER EGYPTIAN GALLERY
The Lower Egyptian Gallery houses one of the finest collections of Egyptian architecture on display in the United States. A monumental granite sphinx dominates the gallery. Surrounding it are the gateway, columns, doorways and windows from the best preserved royal palace ever excavated in Egypt.
The Lower Egyptian Gallery houses one of the finest collections of Egyptian architecture on display in the United States. A monumental granite sphinx dominates the gallery. Surrounding it are the gateway, columns, doorways and windows from the best preserved royal palace ever excavated in Egypt.
By looking through the window at the end of the gallery you can see the eastern and southern walls of the tomb chapel of Kaipure, a treasury official of the late Old Kingdom, dating to the third millennium BC.
Other impressive architectural elements for different sites throughout Egypt can also be seen in this gallery. Cases along one wall display objects dating to Egypt’s Middle Kingdom, dating to the second millennium BC. There is also a display of materials from the beginnings of Egyptian history, and the founding of a unified country of Upper and Lower Egypt including of ivory tags that bear examples of some of the earliest hieroglyphs found in Egypt, dating over 5,000 years ago.
By looking through the window at the end of the gallery you can see the eastern and southern walls of the tomb chapel of Kaipure, a treasury official of the late Old Kingdom, dating to the third millennium BC.
Other impressive architectural elements for different sites throughout Egypt can also be seen in this gallery. Cases along one wall display objects dating to Egypt’s Middle Kingdom, dating to the second millennium BC. There is also a display of materials from the beginnings of Egyptian history, and the founding of a unified country of Upper and Lower Egypt including of ivory tags that bear examples of some of the earliest hieroglyphs found in Egypt, dating over 5,000 years ago.
