Tour the Alexandria National Museum
The history of the world’s greatest cities shows that most experience a long period of growth and expansion and then a longer and slower period of decline. While most remain in existence, they tend to fail to recover from their loss of power or importance.
For example, the long-standing and historic capitol city of Memphis in Egypt hardly has anything to prove that it existed for thousands of years. Interestingly, the ancient city of Alexandria, on the northern coast of Egypt has withstood the many tests of time, and today visitors can trace it's amazing story at the National Museum of Alexandria.
Thousands Years of History
Though the facility is less than ten years old, it houses thousands of years of the country’s remarkable history. The National Museum of Alexandria is in a restored Italian palace near the center of the historic city. Currently its inventory numbers at approximately eighteen hundred artifacts which trace periods from the era of the pharaohs to the modern period.
While five or six thousand years may not seem like that long a time span in human history, for Egypt it was a very busy, active and productive period.
The Alexandria National Museum demonstrates this through its displays of mummies dating back to the earliest dynasties of Pharaonic Egypt, from some of the most recently recovered artifacts taken from the underwater archaeological explorations in the city’s harbor and from the religious artifacts from the many periods of later history.
Because the Alexandria National Museum is of such a young age many of its collections are actually from other museums. In fact, most of the artifacts on display have rarely been seen by the public before because they were items kept in storage due to lack of space or adequate security.
An Open Air Theater
In addition to regular displays, the Alexandria National Museum has also converted some of the existing structure to serve as an open air theater and lecture hall for future speakers and performances.
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