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Cairo Day Tours -High Lights

Written By Unknown on Jul 10, 2014 | Thursday, July 10, 2014

Cairo Day Tours -High Lights- is a Cairo day tour where you will explore Cairo main high lights. The Egyptian Museum in Cairo contains the world’s most extensive collection of pharaonic antiquities; no visit to Egypt is complete without a trip through its galleries. The original collection was established in the late 19th century under Auguste Mariette and housed in Boulaq. The objects were moved in 1891 to the palace of Ismail Pasha in Giza before being transferred in 1902 to the current building at Tahrir Square, which is the first purpose-built museum edifice in the world. This nice museum which was the first museum ever built in Egypt and  The museum houses approximately 160,000 objects covering 5,000 years of Egypt’s past and a variety of Pharaonic, Greek and Roman masterpieces.
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