Egyptian Antiquities at Le Louvre
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 The Department of Egyptian Antiquities is located in the Sully wing, at the ground floor and the first floor. You will be greeted by the Great Sphinx of Tanis, which is placed there as to allow you the passage like he did with Ulysses, but only if you manage to solve the puzzle! It is: 'What has four legs in the morning, has 2 only at noon and 3 at night?' Submit your answer in the forum here at the left of this page and you will get the result!  Le Louvre, 75001 Paris The Louvre is located in the heart of Paris. By subway: station 'Palais Royal/Musee du Louvre' More original and as easy as the subway: By batobus: Stop at Louvre, Quai Francois Mitterrand By car: Parking is accessible via the Avenue General Lemonier daily from 7AM to 11PM. By bus: Bus 21,24,27,39,48,68,69,72,81,95; Bus 'Paris Open Tour': Stop in front of the pyramid. It happens that the queue line outside the great pyramide is very long. In this case, coming throught the underground commercial center of the Louvre allows you to reach quickly & easily the automatic machines to buy the tickets to visit the museum. N 48°51'37'', E 02°20'18'' Click here to see the route (on a new tab)  |
 The museum is open during the hours specified by clicking on the link here. Two hours are needed to correctly see the Egyptian Collections. Note that the entrance of Le Louvre on the first Sunday of each month is not free anymore (it was free these Sundays since 1996). Disclaimer : The management team of the destination has the possibility to change the opening days and hours without prior communication.  The Department of Egyptian Antiquities presents throughout its 40 rooms the civilization thematically, and then the works presented in chronological order. So you will see: - The sphinx then (Room 1), - The Nile and fields works (rooms 3 & 4), - The writing and scribes (Room 6) - The materials and techniques (Room 7), - Home and furnitures (Room 8), - Adornments (Room 9), - The Temple(rooms 11 & 12), - The Crypt of Osiris and the royal tomb of Ramses the 3rd (Room 13), - The mummy, sarcophagus and the book of the Breaths(rooms 14 to 17), - The gods and the magic (room 18), - The animals and gods (room 19). The html link here below allow to directly open the page of the virtual tour of the department of Egyptian Antiquities. This collection is one of the biggest in the world. |