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Ivory statue of Egyptian King Khufu on a pedestal.
King Khufu The ivory statue of Khufu, displayed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, is the only known 3D likeness of the king.

Egyptian Museum

museum, Cairo, Egypt
Also known as: Al-Matḥaf al-Miṣrī
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Egyptian Museum, museum of Egyptian antiquities in Cairo, which was founded in the 19th century by the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette and which housed the world’s most valuable collection of its kind into the 21st century. The Egyptian Museum was founded in 1858 at Būlāq, moved to Al-Jīzah (Giza), and settled in its present site in downtown Cairo in 1897–1902. The building was designed by the French architect Marcel Dourgnon in Neoclassical style and was...

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