Luxor Museum is an archaeological museum in Luxor, Egypt. It stands on the corniche, overlooking the east bank of the River Nile.

Collection

Among the items on display are grave goods from the tomb of the 18th dynasty pharaoh Tutankhamun (KV62) and a collection of 26 New Kingdom statues that were found buried in the Luxor statue cache in the nearby Luxor Temple in 1989. The royal mummies of two pharaohs – Ahmose I and Ramesses I – were also put on display in the Luxor Museum in March 2004, as part of the new extension to the museum, which includes a small visitor centre. A major exhibit is a reconstruction of one of the walls of Akhenaten's temple at Karnak. One of the featured items in the collection is a calcite double statue of the crocodile god Sobek and the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Amenhotep III.

Luxor Museum Amenophis III. Statue 05.jpg|Amenhotep III; circa 1390-1352 BC; quartzite; height: 2.49 m

By ovedc - Luxor Museum - 09.jpg|Scribe statue of Amenhotep, son of Hapu; circa 1390-1352 BC; granodiorite; height: 1.3 m; from Karnak (Egypt)

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See also

  • List of museums of Egyptian antiquities

References

  • Supreme Council of Antiquities; Luxor Museum Retrieved 22 August 2013
  • Luxor: The return of two kings