Luxor Museum

Luxor museum features:

Situated on the Corniche halfway between Luxor Temple and Karnak, this well-designed museum has an excellent collection of statues and artifacts found in temples and tombs in the Luxor area.

Near the entrance is a stunning gilded head of Hathor, the cow-goddess, discovered in the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings.

Also on the ground floor look out for the large pink granite head of Amenhotep III and the beautifully carved figure of a youthful Tuthmosis III.

On the first floor, further exhibits from Tutankhamun’s tomb include a funerary bed and two model barques.

Also exhibited here are two busts of Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) and a reconstructed wall made up of 283 sandstone blocks from Akhen-aten’s temple at Karnak.

The relief scenes depict daily life during Akhenat-en’s reign and show the heretical pharaoh and his wife Queen Nefertiti making offerings to the sun-god Aten.

The spectacular new hall near the exit on the ground floor is a highlight. It displays a collection of beautifully preserved New Kingdom statues, discovered at Luxor Temple in 1989.

Priests are thought to have buried the stone statues in ancient times to make room for new statuary. Twenty-four pieces can be seen, including a nearperfect 2.5-m (8-ft) high statue of Amenhotep III and a statue of the gods Mut and Amun.