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Luxor Museum

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The Luxor Museum was inaugurated in 1975. A new extension, including a small visitor centre, was added to the museum in 2004.

Key People

The museum contains a small collection of items from the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun. The royal mummies of two other pharaohs - Ahmose I and Ramesses I - are on display at the museum.

Tutankhamun

Ramesses I

The Luxor Museum is a small, purpose-built museum in the Egyptian city of Luxor (ancient Thebes). Inaugurated in 1975, it stands on the corniche, overlooking the west bank of the River Nile in the city centre.

After the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the Luxor Museum holds the largest collection of items from Tutankhamun's tomb, KV62, in the world. These include his hunting chariot, and various votive weapons. Other key pieces include 26 well-preserved New Kingdom statues, found buried in a cache at Luxor Temple in 1989, the royal mummies of Ahmose I and Ramesses I, and a calcite double statue of the crocodile god Sobek and pharaoh Amenhotep III. Another major attractions is a reconstruction of one of the walls of Akhenaten's temple at Karnak.

The Luxor Museum features a far smaller collection than the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, but this is intentional - the Luxor Museum prides itself on showing a limited number of important pieces in a clear and uncluttered way, with multi-lingual labelling, that does them the best possible justice. The museum is regularly complemented by tourists as presenting a pleasant contrast to the clamour of the over-crowded Egyptian Museum.

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Horemheb

Horemheb was the last Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty from 1319 BC to late 1292 BC.

Before he became pharaoh, he was commander in chief of the army under the reigns of Tutankamun and Ay. During the reign of Tutankhamun (1334 BC -1325 BC) Horemheb was designated as the Boy King's "Deputy" and was the officially recognised as heir to Tutankhamun. However, the boy king died young but Ay became Pharaoh and reigned for 4 years between 1325 BC -1321 BC. When Ay died, Horemheb, at last, became Pharaoh of Egypt

His chief wife and consort was Queen Mutnedjmet, a daughter of Ay.

After he became Pharaoh, he reformed the state, demolished the monuments of Akhenaten and resued their remains to create his own building projects.

He appointed his deputy Paramesse as his successor, and it was he who assumed the throne on his death, as Ramesses I.

Ramesses I

Menpehtyre Ramesses I was the founding Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt's 19th dynasty.
The dates for his short reign vary from late 1292-1290 BC is and 1295-1294 BC.

Ramesses, who was known as Paramessu before he claimed the throne, worked closely with Horemheb, the king who preceded him, to restore law and order to a country that had been torn apart by ill-conceived religious reforms.

While Ramesses I is credited with estalishing the 19th Dynasty, his short reign of less than two years marked the transition between the reign of Horemheb and the rule of the powerful Pharaohs of the 19th dynasty, particularly Seti I and Ramesses II.

Ramesses I died and was buried in his unfinished tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Four hundred years after his burial he was moved from his sarcophagus to a replacement coffin and taken from the royal necropolis. Eventually, in 890BC, his mummy was finally laid to rest in a tomb high in the cliffs above Hatshepsut's temple at Deir el Bahri.

Sometime in the mid-1800s, the tomb at Deir el-Bahri was accidentally discovered by Ahmed Abd el-Rassul who sold off off mummies, coffins, and royal artifacts to tourists and collectors. When he was caught and stopped in 1881 the tomb contained 40 mummies, coffins, including that of Ramsses, but there was no sign of his mummy.

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