As part of the project to develop the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, the display of a number of artifacts was changed to highlight them and show their artistic creations, including the statues of Kings Djoser, Khufu, and Khafre, Menkaure, Geese of Meidum, and the Blue Faience.
Sabah Abdel Razek, Director-General of the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, explained that the statue of King Djoser has been changed to display on the ground floor of the museum in one window for the first time next to the blue faience tiles, which were found on the sides of the corridors below his pyramid in Saqqara, Giza.
Renovation work and transportation were made about a month ago.
The statue of King Djoser is the oldest known life-size Egyptian statue, found in 1925, in a crypt room attached to the Step Pyramid of Saqqara, and it is made of colored limestone.
Dr. Hassan Selim, a member of the scientific committee of the museum development project, indicated that the places for displaying the statues of King Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure’s triptych were changed so that the statues of the builders of the Giza Pyramids are displayed together in one hall on the ground floor.
In addition the location of the Geese of Meidum painting was changed and will be displayed on the ground floor with the rest of the inscriptions the tomb of Nefer Maat and his wife, from which the painting came.
It should be noted that the project to develop the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir is implemented by the Egyptian Scientific Committee and the trustees of the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, with a grant from the European Union in cooperation with five European museums, namely the Louvre in Paris, the Egyptian in Turin, the National Antiquities Leyden, the Egyptian in Berlin, and the British in London.
Translated by Ahmed Moamar
