The Imhotep Museum at Saqqara
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The New Imhotep Museum in Saqqara is a major new museum very near Cairo honoring the monuments of this important site.
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August 17th, 2006 at 10:41 pm
As delightful as this article is, it doesn’t do justice to a live tour with Ruth Shilling. I had the great pleasure of discovering Ruth and her sensational tour, Time & Space in the Great Temples of Egypt. I’m an avid globe trotter and have toured all continents with the exception of antarctica. I’m not a tour person, prefering solo discovery to chartered itineraries. That changed when I met Ruth. Her personalized tours are unique and taylored to individual perspective allowing for the discovery of cultural diversity in everyday life while walking through 3000 years of Egyptian history. On Ruth’s tour, I found “time and space” in the Great Pyramid of Giza, where I was able to chant and feel the vibration of the burial chamber in complete solitude. I learned to read hieroglyphics at the Temple of Luxor. I also toured Saqqara with Ruth. Although, when we were there, a fierce sand storm was blowing. The blowing sand was so intense that it was difficult to walk, and the step pyramid was almost completely obscured from view. But, somehow Ruth made even this event magical.
September 19th, 2006 at 8:41 pm
Thanks to Dr Hawass article in Horus of August 2006, Egypt Air’s in-flight magazine, I visited the new museum, and was impressed by the wealth of discoveries from the early dynastic period exposed there, and by the modern audio-visual presentation in the entrance hall.
However, there is need for more textual explanations, especially of the commentary by Dr. Hawass to the film, which should be displayed for reading on the walls of the auditorium. And the relationship of many of the XVIII dynasty finds to the 4th dynasty pyramid of Djoser needs more explanation. Perhaps a forthcoming brochure to be available in the museum might help.
I also hope that the Egyptian Antiquities Department will install a similar museum at the soon to be opened Abusir site.