Very glad to hear it. It's possible to spend DAYS in there and still never see anything. But there's so much stuff in there covering more than 5000 years, so it's just so fascinating to those who can appreciate it.
@TheEgyptTravelChannel So true ! There is so much to see, and now I understand why certain areas looked like storage in prep for the new museum. There are gems everywhere. Thanks for sharing
That's the beauty of this museum... at least for now. I think it will very soon no longer be like this. That's why I've encouraged everyone to go visit it now while it's still like this.
This is my favorite museum on the planet. I hope they don't close it down. The building itself is an architectural masterpiece and the building in itself has historical value, giving its age. But combined with all the Egyptian artifacts and the old wooden display cabinets, makes me feel like I just traveled to the 1920's and I cant express enough how much I love it!
That's a VERY good point that many people are missing out on with all of the focus on the big billion-dollar new GEM. I've always told people that you will likely never get another chance to be this up close and personal with priceless artifacts like these ever again. As things here modernize, they will all be put behind glass just like artifacts in most museums around the world. The chance to see these ancient objects up close and in this amazing historic setting is in itself a priceless opportunity.
I do, however, think that they will keep the building as a museum and keep many artifacts still in it. My guess is that they will clear out the central atrium and use that as an event space, with a museum around it. Just a hunch though based on who they awarded the management contract to for the building.
I spent hours in that lovely old place in the 90's...we stayed at the Hilton which is contiguous w/ the Egyptian Museum, just across a narrow alley which made the museum very easy to visit and linger. The museum is an artifact in and of itself. Like the old Winter Palace hotel @ Luxor.
Glad you agree. People don't realize just how MUCH stuff is in there. It's not the best laid-out museum and the large stone artifacts aren't as well taken care of as they should be, but it's the only place in the world where you can see that much ancient history up close and personal.
My first visit to the Egyptian Museum was in 1998 and my second was in September 2023. The place is truly magnificent, the amount of history and cultural wealth contained within is breath taking. However, I was appalled with the negligence and callousness with which the artifacts were treated. Tourist are able to freely touch archeological treasures some of which are 5000 years old. The only deterrent was a small sign at the entrance that says ``please don`t touch``.I think that Egypt has to start taking much better care of its cultural heritage.
Very good observations. I've always said that one of the best arguments in favor of visiting Egypt BEFORE the GEM opens is that you'll never again be able to be so up-close-and-personal with priceless ancient artifacts as you are in the old Egyptian Museum currently. That doesn't mean people have to touch or abuse the artifacts currently on display there. But you'll never be able to even get millimeters away from them with your own eyes and observe every tiny curve and cut of the heiroglyphs and the features on faces, etc. Once this museum winds down its operations, everything will be behind thick glass forever and we'll only be able to see them through those cases at a distance or in photographs. And honestly, while it's easy to say that the reason for the condition of this museum over the past few decades is that Egypt is a poor country and lacked the money to properly display and protects its museum contents, it's not really that at all. It was simply negligence on the part of the ministers in charge back then. They could have easily and very cheaply made that museum 1000% better in 2000, 2010, 2015, and so on, but they chose not to. They failed, preferring instead to pass the buck and wait for the GEM to open. Hopefully this problem will be part of history too very soon.
Dont forget Its a Muslim country and many would Like to destroy everything what was before the muslim aera!They dont do it because they can make Money with it,and thats all!
As a guest to Egypt now 8 times, all up and down the Nile also (Abu Simple, and to a temple, driving at insane speed, supposedly not to be shot at?), I have visited the the Museum most all times, as I have been inside all the major Pyramids, from the Step - to Khufu! The last time a special inexpensive offer a few days before departure, and driving through the desert by fine newly made, separate roads from Hurghada to Luxor and entering the boat, and not going to Cairo.
planning another visit to Cairo, is the mummy's room "half stairs" (Ramses II, and so on) still in the old museum? did they move some of them to GEM? thanks
The Royal Mummy Collection was moved to the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC), which is Egypt's OTHER new museum. This one, however, was opened in in April of 2022 with the massive spectacle of the "mummies parade" that you may have seen back then (if not, google it and enjoy the show). There are still a few mummies in the old Egyptian Museum, such as those of Yuya and Thuya, who were related to the 18th dynasty royal family but not actually pharaohs themselves (although their daughter, Tiye, later became Queen Tiye when she married Amenhotep III and became the mother of Akhenaten and the grandmother of King Tut). The NMEC, which was purpose-built to house the royal mummies, now contains 22 former kings and queens of ancient Egypt.
Honestly, it depends. Sometimes they say they will keep cameras if someone brings one that's too large and not allowed (like a commercial camera), but other times they say they don't store things and belongings need to be left in the car or taken back to a hotel. In the past they had a system to temporarily store items, but not for a while. There are definitely not lockers anymore, and I just generally wouldn't count on being able to store anything there.
They don't want to move Tut's major things over to the GEM until the very last minute so that people don't show up to Egypt and miss the major Tut treasures. They'll probably move most of his stuff in one afternoon to avoid people missing it.
Honestly, can't remember. When I find the track that was used in one of the files containing all of the licensed music used, I'll make a mental note to post it here. It's beautiful indeed.
Very good question!! You can still see mummies at the old museum, including the mummies of Yuya and Thuya (the parents of Queen Tiye), but when you say THE mummies I think you mean the mummies of the pharaohs themselves. Those were moved in April 2022 over to a new smaller museum that was specifically built to house what I call the "Royal Mummy Collection" (i.e., the pharaohs' mummmies). That smaller new museum is called the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (or NMEC for short), although I often refer to it as the mummies museum, since the Royal Mummy Collection is the main exhibit there.
Very good question. We're not yet sure what will happen to the old museum building. It's a historic building and it's right in the center of downtown Cairo on some of the most prime real estate in the country. So they will surely repurpose it, as they are doing with several other former government ministry buildings in the same area. But we don't yet know if it'll stay a museum of some sort or what. My guess is that it will be turned into an event venue and some artifacts will remain inside as decoration.
We visited the museum in october 23 and i was shocked about the way they treated the historical things there inside. Dust, dirt no light. Evveryone could touch them, everywhere around wooden boxes, no signs for the visitors. I have never seen such confusing condition there before! Outside the green garden and the figures were away, only police officer and military. There has been a big change in the last 25 years. On the way to the museum all houses were broken by the government. Only to make a new street for the GEM, thats not true. It looks like there was a war!!!! What about zhe people living there? Sorry i did not like it anymore in the old museum. It eas so awfully i cant explane.
That's true that the old Egyptian Museum was in a very bad state. It's over one hundred years old and the artifact cases in there appear to be nearly the same age. The only exceptions are the rooms in which royal tomb contents are displayed (such as the King Tut room), which are modern and properly done. And before they were moved to the other new museum built to specifically house them, the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (the NMEC), the royal mummies were also in a special temperature-controlled room and properly displayed within the old musuem's "mummies room." Now they are in even better conditions at the NMEC. And once the GEM opens, all of it's contents will be better displayed and protected than 99% of other museums around the world.
The track is called ADVENTURE and it's from an artist simply known on there as Blacksmith and the direct link to it is here: elements.envato.com/adventure-2B6MQE7
Glad you like it. The song is just a background track called simply "Adventure" that's part of a collection of thousands of production music tracks available for licensing. Normally they are a lot shorter, but that was a nice long one that fit the video well.
IS there anyway you can link me to am mp3 of this song? I cannot find a way to search it up and I cannot rip the audio from this video. I simply just want to listen to the beautiful music for leisure. Thank You, Scott.@@TheEgyptTravelChannel
GOOD NEWS!!! I knew I would find the original track eventually if I kept searching, and finally I did. It's a stock audio track from one of the sites I subscribe to for clips and background music and sound effects called Envato Elements. The track is called ADVENTURE and it's from an artist simply known on there as _Blacksmith_ and the direct link to it is here: elements.envato.com/adventure-2B6MQE7
There were just over 5000 artifacts recovered from Tut's tomb, and all 5000 of them have never been on display before anywhere. Only a selection of masterpieces were ever on display in the old museum, and yes most of those are indeed still there and have not been transferred to the GEM. However, when you hear that many artifacts have been transferred or installed in the GEM already, they're talking mostly about the thousands that were never on display at the old museum before. Those were just in storage and ready to put into the GEM immediately. But the major treasures, such as the solid gold burial mask mask and his inner golden coffins and much of his jewelry and his gold throne and guardian statues and beds and chariots and much more is all still at the old museum.
The only object in the Egyptian Museum that is a replica is the Rosetta Stone replica at the entrance to the museum. That's obviously because the Brits stole the original one and won't return it. So Egypt has to display a replica of that looted artifact in order for guides to help explain the historical story of how Egyptian history was rediscovered after hieroglyphs could finally be read once again after nearly 2000 years, thanks to that one object.
@@TheEgyptTravelChannel even rosetta stone is picture of it not replica and they made it to pressure England to return it ,, Egypt wants only 5 main pieces from western museums one of them resotta stone and head of Nefertiti in Germany
Rosetta stone should remain in the British Museum (or maybe to France). Egypt has so many interesting and beautiful artefacts already. The value of the stone is not itself but the added value of the translation in Europe.
Then, by that logic, perhaps the British Crown Jewels belong in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC and not in the Tower of London? Or perhaps the Mona Lisa belongs in Tokyo? "Finders keepers" is not an appropriate basis of law and morality.
Dajjal ...☝️the antichrist seizes the treasures of Egypt during the great tribulation, see the future biblical passage 👇 And he will stretch out his hand against the countries, and the land of Egypt will not escape. 43 And he will take possession of the treasures of gold and silver and all the precious things of Egypt; and the Libyans and Ethiopians will follow him. Daniel 11:42-43
The stone belongs to humanity as a whole, and therefore in a museum where it's safe and can be seen by the public. The multiple lootings of museums in Egypt and the inability of the government to open the GEM is enough proof that artefacts are way better off for everyone in London than in Cairo. #dontreturnthestone.
Saying "the stone belongs to humanity as a whole" is like saying that the British crown jewels or the Mona Lisa or the Statue of David all belong to humanity as a whole too, so if anyone steals those then they don't have to give them back. That's an absolutely absurd argument that has zero logic. Also, your outdated second argument Egypt not being able to protect its own valuable artifacts is dead now too because a) they have protected the MOST valuable artifact - King Tut's Golden funerary mask - for more than 100 years and continue to do so, and b) the British Museum, along with several other British Museums, recently announced that they've had THOUSANDS of artifacts stolen from their museums and created a whole media campaign to call for the return of those stolen items. You can't even make this stuff up!!
@@salmashalaby528Facts are facts. In UK it's safe and FREE for anyone to see. In Egypt not so much, and foreigners have to pay 20 times more than locals to see the artifacts. #dontreturnthestone
@@cy-b these aren’t “facts”. Only last month the British Museum announced that about 1500 pieces in its collection have been stolen, 350 have had portions removed (such as gold mounts for gems), and 140 damaged by tools. Nothing is “safer” with the looters. As for the different prices, the British museums make enough money from exhibits, publications, donations, gift shops, and patronages to help them keep their looted stuff on display, the free admission isn’t out of the goodness of their hearts. Most museums around the world charge money for entry and offer discounts to students, seniors, and/or locals. Also, visiting a foreign museum and seeing artefacts up close for free isn’t a human right. If you can’t afford the Louvre, you don’t demand moving the Mona Lisa to the V&A… you just don’t go. It’s that simple.
By that logic, the British Crown Jewels belong in the USA in the Smithsonian, and Stonehenge too. They can't protect them as well as the Americans can, so just go ahead and transfer all of the UK's cultural valuables over to the better-suited Americans to house and protect them. And while you're at it, send the Mona Lisa over there too, since France has been in nearly constant wars for the past few centuries and invaded so many times. Canada would be a better protector of French cultural valuables than France. Italy too... send all of Europe's collections over to North America for better keeping.
They would of sold it or destroyed it years ago if the British didn’t value history , thats why know so much about the ancient Sumerians . My favourite video from people calling the British thieves is the one where a group of islamists walk into a museum and destroy thousand year old statues
Under that theory, all of the MORE valuable artifacts that they have always have should have been stolen or destroyed long ago. The facts on the ground just don't support your argument. Take the King Tut golden mask, for example. This is probably the most famous and valuable treasure in all of Egypt, and the most famous Egyptian treasure in the entire world. Since it's moment of discovery in 1922, it has not left Egypt. It has been in Egypt the whole time. And it remains here today, perfectly intact. While at the same time, the British Museum admitted last year that nearly 2000 objects were stolen from them and they launched a publicity campaign to get them back. So maybe the British Museum should ship all of it's artifacts to Egypt for safe keeping in the new Grand Egyptian Museum, right?
@@TheEgyptTravelChannelWhy should everything bevin Egypt?It would be better to have some nice Museums around the Word who Show egyptian artefacts!Egypt has way to much of IT!
@@BrunoHeggli-zp3nlwhat do you mean by extremist Muslims in power . Egypt has been in the hand of Muslims for more than a 1000 years,still many temples are intact,.any pyramids are intact. I have met many Egyptians and all of them loves their history and previous rulers. You are putting something on them which they have never done. Just because they changed their religion doesn't mean they will destroy their own history
Would you care to explain that comment a little more? Who stole from Greecy and Italy? And what's who's excuse? Are you sayin the Egyptians stole from Greece and Italy? lol If so, that's not correct at all. There are Greek and Roman artifacts in Egypt because both Greek/Macedonian and Roman peoples invaded and conquered Egypt and built things in Egypt while they were occupying Egypt. Those objects did not come FROM Greece or Rome. Greeks and Romans came TO Egypt and built things IN Egypt.
I was there in October. It was truly magnificent, and I would visit again
Very glad to hear it. It's possible to spend DAYS in there and still never see anything. But there's so much stuff in there covering more than 5000 years, so it's just so fascinating to those who can appreciate it.
@TheEgyptTravelChannel So true ! There is so much to see, and now I understand why certain areas looked like storage in prep for the new museum. There are gems everywhere. Thanks for sharing
I like the warehouse look- its like they have so much- they just store it there- kind of unceremoniously but you can get really close
That's the beauty of this museum... at least for now. I think it will very soon no longer be like this. That's why I've encouraged everyone to go visit it now while it's still like this.
This is my favorite museum on the planet. I hope they don't close it down. The building itself is an architectural masterpiece and the building in itself has historical value, giving its age. But combined with all the Egyptian artifacts and the old wooden display cabinets, makes me feel like I just traveled to the 1920's and I cant express enough how much I love it!
That's a VERY good point that many people are missing out on with all of the focus on the big billion-dollar new GEM. I've always told people that you will likely never get another chance to be this up close and personal with priceless artifacts like these ever again. As things here modernize, they will all be put behind glass just like artifacts in most museums around the world. The chance to see these ancient objects up close and in this amazing historic setting is in itself a priceless opportunity.
I do, however, think that they will keep the building as a museum and keep many artifacts still in it. My guess is that they will clear out the central atrium and use that as an event space, with a museum around it. Just a hunch though based on who they awarded the management contract to for the building.
I spent hours in that lovely old place in the 90's...we stayed at the Hilton which is contiguous w/ the Egyptian Museum, just across a narrow alley which made the museum very easy to visit and linger. The museum is an artifact in and of itself. Like the old Winter Palace hotel @ Luxor.
I was recently there and definitely worth a visit.
Glad you agree. People don't realize just how MUCH stuff is in there. It's not the best laid-out museum and the large stone artifacts aren't as well taken care of as they should be, but it's the only place in the world where you can see that much ancient history up close and personal.
My first visit to the Egyptian Museum was in 1998 and my second was in September 2023. The place is truly magnificent, the amount of history and cultural wealth contained within is breath taking. However, I was appalled with the negligence and callousness with which the artifacts were treated. Tourist are able to freely touch archeological treasures some of which are 5000 years old. The only deterrent was a small sign at the entrance that says ``please don`t touch``.I think that Egypt has to start taking much better care of its cultural heritage.
Very good observations. I've always said that one of the best arguments in favor of visiting Egypt BEFORE the GEM opens is that you'll never again be able to be so up-close-and-personal with priceless ancient artifacts as you are in the old Egyptian Museum currently. That doesn't mean people have to touch or abuse the artifacts currently on display there. But you'll never be able to even get millimeters away from them with your own eyes and observe every tiny curve and cut of the heiroglyphs and the features on faces, etc. Once this museum winds down its operations, everything will be behind thick glass forever and we'll only be able to see them through those cases at a distance or in photographs. And honestly, while it's easy to say that the reason for the condition of this museum over the past few decades is that Egypt is a poor country and lacked the money to properly display and protects its museum contents, it's not really that at all. It was simply negligence on the part of the ministers in charge back then. They could have easily and very cheaply made that museum 1000% better in 2000, 2010, 2015, and so on, but they chose not to. They failed, preferring instead to pass the buck and wait for the GEM to open. Hopefully this problem will be part of history too very soon.
Dont forget Its a Muslim country and many would Like to destroy everything what was before the muslim aera!They dont do it because they can make Money with it,and thats all!
As a guest to Egypt now 8 times, all up and down the Nile also (Abu Simple, and to a temple, driving at insane speed, supposedly not to be shot at?), I have visited the the Museum most all times, as I have been inside all the major Pyramids, from the Step - to Khufu!
The last time a special inexpensive offer a few days before departure, and driving through the desert by fine newly made, separate roads from Hurghada to Luxor and entering the boat, and not going to Cairo.
Wow! 8 times!! That's a lot of visits to Egypt. You must love the place and the history.
planning another visit to Cairo, is the mummy's room "half stairs" (Ramses II, and so on) still in the old museum? did they move some of them to GEM?
thanks
The Royal Mummy Collection was moved to the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC), which is Egypt's OTHER new museum. This one, however, was opened in in April of 2022 with the massive spectacle of the "mummies parade" that you may have seen back then (if not, google it and enjoy the show). There are still a few mummies in the old Egyptian Museum, such as those of Yuya and Thuya, who were related to the 18th dynasty royal family but not actually pharaohs themselves (although their daughter, Tiye, later became Queen Tiye when she married Amenhotep III and became the mother of Akhenaten and the grandmother of King Tut). The NMEC, which was purpose-built to house the royal mummies, now contains 22 former kings and queens of ancient Egypt.
@@TheEgyptTravelChannel thanks, planned a visit to NMEC as well!
Hi 👋🏻 thanks for the video. Do you know if there is a cloakroom in the museum or any lockers?
Honestly, it depends. Sometimes they say they will keep cameras if someone brings one that's too large and not allowed (like a commercial camera), but other times they say they don't store things and belongings need to be left in the car or taken back to a hotel. In the past they had a system to temporarily store items, but not for a while. There are definitely not lockers anymore, and I just generally wouldn't count on being able to store anything there.
@@TheEgyptTravelChannel Thank you so much for the information!
I’m surprised that they haven’t moved Tutankhamen over to the new museum.
It’s been a dream of mine to visit for decades, maybe 2024 will be the year!
They don't want to move Tut's major things over to the GEM until the very last minute so that people don't show up to Egypt and miss the major Tut treasures. They'll probably move most of his stuff in one afternoon to avoid people missing it.
Amazing!!!!
Thanks!!
That's great to know that thx
Happy to help
I love the music in the background. what is it?
Honestly, can't remember. When I find the track that was used in one of the files containing all of the licensed music used, I'll make a mental note to post it here. It's beautiful indeed.
Can you still see the mummies at the old museum? I seem to recall they were moved over to GEM some time ago?
Very good question!! You can still see mummies at the old museum, including the mummies of Yuya and Thuya (the parents of Queen Tiye), but when you say THE mummies I think you mean the mummies of the pharaohs themselves. Those were moved in April 2022 over to a new smaller museum that was specifically built to house what I call the "Royal Mummy Collection" (i.e., the pharaohs' mummmies). That smaller new museum is called the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (or NMEC for short), although I often refer to it as the mummies museum, since the Royal Mummy Collection is the main exhibit there.
Will the old museum be closed and its contents moved to the new one?
Very good question. We're not yet sure what will happen to the old museum building. It's a historic building and it's right in the center of downtown Cairo on some of the most prime real estate in the country. So they will surely repurpose it, as they are doing with several other former government ministry buildings in the same area. But we don't yet know if it'll stay a museum of some sort or what. My guess is that it will be turned into an event venue and some artifacts will remain inside as decoration.
Is the death mask of Tutankhamun still on display as I’m visiting for the first time this month and it’s something I’ve always wanted to see
Yes. That's definitely still on display at the old museum and likely will remain in place there until the very last minute with minimal transfer time.
Excellent museum ~ I enjoyed it immensely.
Cool video!
Is this still the case? We are planing to visit in September?
Am gonna land there in February
We visited the museum in october 23 and i was shocked about the way they treated the historical things there inside. Dust, dirt no light. Evveryone could touch them, everywhere around wooden boxes, no signs for the visitors. I have never seen such confusing condition there before! Outside the green garden and the figures were away, only police officer and military. There has been a big change in the last 25 years. On the way to the museum all houses were broken by the government. Only to make a new street for the GEM, thats not true. It looks like there was a war!!!! What about zhe people living there? Sorry i did not like it anymore in the old museum. It eas so awfully i cant explane.
That's true that the old Egyptian Museum was in a very bad state. It's over one hundred years old and the artifact cases in there appear to be nearly the same age. The only exceptions are the rooms in which royal tomb contents are displayed (such as the King Tut room), which are modern and properly done. And before they were moved to the other new museum built to specifically house them, the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (the NMEC), the royal mummies were also in a special temperature-controlled room and properly displayed within the old musuem's "mummies room." Now they are in even better conditions at the NMEC. And once the GEM opens, all of it's contents will be better displayed and protected than 99% of other museums around the world.
Would it be possible to know the music name ? ❤
The track is called ADVENTURE and it's from an artist simply known on there as Blacksmith and the direct link to it is here: elements.envato.com/adventure-2B6MQE7
@@TheEgyptTravelChannel thank you sooo much ❣️
Amazing...What is the song here? Really wonderful music. I was in the museum in October. Absolutely stunning artifacts...
Glad you like it. The song is just a background track called simply "Adventure" that's part of a collection of thousands of production music tracks available for licensing. Normally they are a lot shorter, but that was a nice long one that fit the video well.
IS there anyway you can link me to am mp3 of this song? I cannot find a way to search it up and I cannot rip the audio from this video. I simply just want to listen to the beautiful music for leisure. Thank You, Scott.@@TheEgyptTravelChannel
GOOD NEWS!!! I knew I would find the original track eventually if I kept searching, and finally I did. It's a stock audio track from one of the sites I subscribe to for clips and background music and sound effects called Envato Elements. The track is called ADVENTURE and it's from an artist simply known on there as _Blacksmith_ and the direct link to it is here: elements.envato.com/adventure-2B6MQE7
@@TheEgyptTravelChannel Thank You. I appreciate this, but I will have to subscribe to that company to download it....
So King Tut's artifacts haven't moved to the GEM?
There were just over 5000 artifacts recovered from Tut's tomb, and all 5000 of them have never been on display before anywhere. Only a selection of masterpieces were ever on display in the old museum, and yes most of those are indeed still there and have not been transferred to the GEM. However, when you hear that many artifacts have been transferred or installed in the GEM already, they're talking mostly about the thousands that were never on display at the old museum before. Those were just in storage and ready to put into the GEM immediately. But the major treasures, such as the solid gold burial mask mask and his inner golden coffins and much of his jewelry and his gold throne and guardian statues and beds and chariots and much more is all still at the old museum.
Wow there's plenty of treasures there. But I need to know which is genuine and which is a replica and the history of everything!
All artifacts in the museum are original what are you talking about ?
The only object in the Egyptian Museum that is a replica is the Rosetta Stone replica at the entrance to the museum. That's obviously because the Brits stole the original one and won't return it. So Egypt has to display a replica of that looted artifact in order for guides to help explain the historical story of how Egyptian history was rediscovered after hieroglyphs could finally be read once again after nearly 2000 years, thanks to that one object.
@@TheEgyptTravelChannel even rosetta stone is picture of it not replica and they made it to pressure England to return it ,, Egypt wants only 5 main pieces from western museums one of them resotta stone and head of Nefertiti in Germany
Rosetta stone should remain in the British Museum (or maybe to France). Egypt has so many interesting and beautiful artefacts already. The value of the stone is not itself but the added value of the translation in Europe.
Then, by that logic, perhaps the British Crown Jewels belong in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC and not in the Tower of London? Or perhaps the Mona Lisa belongs in Tokyo? "Finders keepers" is not an appropriate basis of law and morality.
The British also stole the Elgin marbles from Athens.
Dajjal ...☝️the antichrist seizes the treasures of Egypt during the great tribulation, see the future biblical passage 👇 And he will stretch out his hand against the countries, and the land of Egypt will not escape. 43 And he will take possession of the treasures of gold and silver and all the precious things of Egypt; and the Libyans and Ethiopians will follow him. Daniel 11:42-43
OoooooooK.
The stone belongs to humanity as a whole, and therefore in a museum where it's safe and can be seen by the public. The multiple lootings of museums in Egypt and the inability of the government to open the GEM is enough proof that artefacts are way better off for everyone in London than in Cairo. #dontreturnthestone.
Saying "the stone belongs to humanity as a whole" is like saying that the British crown jewels or the Mona Lisa or the Statue of David all belong to humanity as a whole too, so if anyone steals those then they don't have to give them back. That's an absolutely absurd argument that has zero logic. Also, your outdated second argument Egypt not being able to protect its own valuable artifacts is dead now too because a) they have protected the MOST valuable artifact - King Tut's Golden funerary mask - for more than 100 years and continue to do so, and b) the British Museum, along with several other British Museums, recently announced that they've had THOUSANDS of artifacts stolen from their museums and created a whole media campaign to call for the return of those stolen items. You can't even make this stuff up!!
So to protect them from being looted, they need to be... looted? Such a smart argument lol
@@salmashalaby528Facts are facts. In UK it's safe and FREE for anyone to see. In Egypt not so much, and foreigners have to pay 20 times more than locals to see the artifacts. #dontreturnthestone
@@cy-b these aren’t “facts”. Only last month the British Museum announced that about 1500 pieces in its collection have been stolen, 350 have had portions removed (such as gold mounts for gems), and 140 damaged by tools. Nothing is “safer” with the looters.
As for the different prices, the British museums make enough money from exhibits, publications, donations, gift shops, and patronages to help them keep their looted stuff on display, the free admission isn’t out of the goodness of their hearts. Most museums around the world charge money for entry and offer discounts to students, seniors, and/or locals. Also, visiting a foreign museum and seeing artefacts up close for free isn’t a human right. If you can’t afford the Louvre, you don’t demand moving the Mona Lisa to the V&A… you just don’t go. It’s that simple.
@@TheEgyptTravelChannel the stone in itself is not valuable. The real value is its translation by Europeans.
Fake 🤥 news 🗞️
Egypt is and still in Africa 🌍 it was known as kemet not Egypt 💯 true
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No clue what this means? Is this code for something? lol
These items belong in the British museum
By that logic, the British Crown Jewels belong in the USA in the Smithsonian, and Stonehenge too. They can't protect them as well as the Americans can, so just go ahead and transfer all of the UK's cultural valuables over to the better-suited Americans to house and protect them. And while you're at it, send the Mona Lisa over there too, since France has been in nearly constant wars for the past few centuries and invaded so many times. Canada would be a better protector of French cultural valuables than France. Italy too... send all of Europe's collections over to North America for better keeping.
@@TheEgyptTravelChannel I was just having a bit of a joke at the British museums expense. No offence intended. Have a good day sir!
They would of sold it or destroyed it years ago if the British didn’t value history , thats why know so much about the ancient Sumerians . My favourite video from people calling the British thieves is the one where a group of islamists walk into a museum and destroy thousand year old statues
Like the Rosetta Stone- that belongs in Egypt.
NO!
Why would you give Back the artefacts?You cant trust them!We dont know If in the future some crazys will destroy it all there!
Under that theory, all of the MORE valuable artifacts that they have always have should have been stolen or destroyed long ago. The facts on the ground just don't support your argument. Take the King Tut golden mask, for example. This is probably the most famous and valuable treasure in all of Egypt, and the most famous Egyptian treasure in the entire world. Since it's moment of discovery in 1922, it has not left Egypt. It has been in Egypt the whole time. And it remains here today, perfectly intact. While at the same time, the British Museum admitted last year that nearly 2000 objects were stolen from them and they launched a publicity campaign to get them back. So maybe the British Museum should ship all of it's artifacts to Egypt for safe keeping in the new Grand Egyptian Museum, right?
@@TheEgyptTravelChannelWhat If some crazy extremist Muslims coming to Power?You cant take that risk!
@@TheEgyptTravelChannelWhy should everything bevin Egypt?It would be better to have some nice Museums around the Word who Show egyptian artefacts!Egypt has way to much of IT!
@@BrunoHeggli-zp3nlOnly one word for you.. Colonial Thief.
@@BrunoHeggli-zp3nlwhat do you mean by extremist Muslims in power . Egypt has been in the hand of Muslims for more than a 1000 years,still many temples are intact,.any pyramids are intact. I have met many Egyptians and all of them loves their history and previous rulers. You are putting something on them which they have never done. Just because they changed their religion doesn't mean they will destroy their own history
They stole from Greece and Italy and they are safe? What's their excuse
Would you care to explain that comment a little more? Who stole from Greecy and Italy? And what's who's excuse? Are you sayin the Egyptians stole from Greece and Italy? lol If so, that's not correct at all. There are Greek and Roman artifacts in Egypt because both Greek/Macedonian and Roman peoples invaded and conquered Egypt and built things in Egypt while they were occupying Egypt. Those objects did not come FROM Greece or Rome. Greeks and Romans came TO Egypt and built things IN Egypt.