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The Luxor Museum: Suggested Itinerary While in Egypt

The Luxor Museum is located on the Corniche. It is the perfect fill-in activity, in that it is air conditioned and open in the evenings. The museum is small, but the exhibits are superb and beautifully displayed. There are several interesting pieces from the Tutankhamun tomb, but most of the exhibit consists of statues recovered from a pit in Karnak. They were buried there in ancient times, presumably to make way for more statuary, or to protect them during one of the intermediary periods. The statues are in wonderful condition and you can see some of the finest examples of egyptian sculpture. There is a unique exhibit of a painted wall from the Amarna period. The wall consists of small, uniform blocks that were used at Amarna to construct homes and palaces in a standardized fashion. These talatat blocks are small enough to carry and handle and could be duplicated in size and shape in either stone or mud brick. Amarna, Akhetaten, was built from scratch at a previously unused site, so many buildings were needed to be built quickly. This system of standardized construction was used for other buildings commissioned by Akhenaten in other cities The Penguin Guide gives a detailed description of the exhibits on pages 307 - 312. The Lonely Planet Guide covers The Luxor Museum on page 270.

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