Some of My Photographs from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo

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Tutankhamen's famous death mask - New Kingdom - 18th Dynasty - circa 1323 BCE	A wider view of the mask -  New Kingdom - 18th Dynasty
Statuettes from Tutankhamen's tomb - New Kingdom - 18th Dynasty	Detail from one of the funerary beds of Tutankhamen - New Kingdom - 18th Dynasty
Tutankhamen's Canopic Chest and Jars - New Kingdom - 18th Dynasty	A second of the many cases of statuettes from Tutankhamen's tomb - New Kingdom - 18th Dynasty
Life-sized painted limestone figures of Rahotep and his wife Nefert - from Maydum - Old Kingdom - 4th Dynasty - circa 2600 BCE	Djoser - Builder of the Step Pyramid at Saqqara - Old Kingdom - 3rd Dynasty - circa 2611 BCE
The only certain known likeness of Khufu, builder of the Great Pyramid - an ivory figure 7.6 cm high found at Abydos - Old Kingdom - 4th Dynasty - circa 2528 BCE	Snefru - Detail from a stela found at the Bent Pyramid of Dashur - located in the Museum courtyard - Old Kingdom - 4th Dynasty - circa 2575 BCE Click here for a wider view of the stela
Menkaure flanked by two goddesses - from Giza - Old Kingdom - 4th Dynasty - circa 2472 BCE	Colossus of Akhenaten from Amarna - New Kingdom - 18th Dynasty - circa 1353 BCE
Horus guarding the child Rameses the Great, who is represented as a rebus of his own name. New Kingdom - 19th Dynasty - circa 1290 BCE
Compared with the rest of the photos here these images might appear somewhat grainy. Since the Egyptian Museum doesn't allow tourists the use of either flash photography or tripods, the only way to get decent photos in its modestly lit rooms is with high speed film - in this case Fuji ASA-1600, which is decidedly more coarsely grained than slower films.

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All photographs are © Copyright Allan J. Matthews. They may be copied for private non-profit use only.