Egypt from the Air is part of the Wings over the Pyramids: Will Egypt's Treasure Survive exhibit designed and curated by Museum Studies graduate students at San Francisco State University, under the guidance of Professor Linda Ellis.

This blog attempts to capture, document, and make accessible some of the hundreds of thousands of videos, articles and photographs relating to the dramatic events that have swept across Egypt since early 2011.

Wings over the Pyramids opens April 4th, 2011.

4/5/11

Egyptian Museum of Cairo

Museum Syndicate is a independently owned and operated website that showcases over 75 museum's collections from around the world.  You can search the Brooklyn Museum to the National Portrait Gallery in London.  Naturally, I checked out the Cairo Museum.

There are 122 objects images from the Cairo Museum on Museum Sybdicate. They are photographed and thumb-nailed in a simple but clear catalog format.  While this catalog is nowhere near a definitive collection of the thousands of objects in the Cairo Museum, it can give a person a taste of what is housed inside.  

Here is a sample:

If you are particularly interested in the "Giant Statue of Akhenaten" , for example, click on the name of the object, and  it brings you to a page with that looks like this:

Giant Statue of Akhenaten by Unknown Artist


TITLE:Giant Statue of Akhenaten
OWNER:Egyptian Museum of Cairo
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:Egypt
DATE OF CREATION:1350 BC
TAGGED WITH:Ancient Egypt Sculptures and Carvings
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