Egyptian Royalty’s Establishment under Inauguration

By: Ali Abu Dashish

CAIRO, Dec. 13 (SEE)- Egyptian museum, located in Tahrir, is organizing on Thursday’s evening a temporal monumental exposition titled “Egyptian Royalty’s establishment in the fourth millennium B.C.” The event is going to be celebrated in cooperation with Bon Institute for Egyptian Monuments.

Head of the museums sector Ilham Salah said, “The exposition is going to last for two months and will take place in hall 32 at the ground floor. 101 monumental pieces are going to be exhibited. The pieces belong to the first political state known in history, located at Egypt’s Nile valley, at the end of the fourth millennium B.C.”

She added that the most important pieces are: an ivory card that belongs to king Djer, Narmer’s Palette, and a part of a royal palette.

Sabah Abdel Razek, the museums general manager, explained “During this period, the art of writing and expressing through photography notably developed, also social and economic lives, decimal number’s system was made, and different measurement units were determined.

She elaborated that this formative stage of the Egyptian history represents a major importance to the world’s history. Clear evidence is Narmer’s palette considered one of the important reference monuments that hides multiple interpretations.

Translator: Maydaa Abo El-Nadar