Egyptian Museum

Egypt is spilling over with so much history it is hard to imagine how much time has played a role in her evolution without a point of reference. Over 5,000 yrs of archaelogical finds, symbology, culture, wars, stories, language, and sand which reeks of facts that will blow your mind away. And if that's not enough to interest the easily bored, they are still discovering new sites, new facts and secrets that the pharohs left behind.

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/e/eg/egyptian_pyramids.htm

The museum's collection now exceeds 120,000 objects of 31 egyptian dynasties. The current display is certainly not respectfully represented in that, few items are labled (aside from a number code). And of the few that are, only a sample of those describe the object. Without a guide or at the very least, your Lonely Planet bible, you will have no clue what you're looking at especially since no maps of the museum are provided! Some artifacts just lay there and some that are of high value - well, you would never know it from it's display. I've heard talk of them building a new museum. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/06/22/international/i175921D63.DTL
Ok, judging by this article, the talk was true. Yes, still, more artifacts lie in storage- not sure if or when they are rotated.

One important and most recent discovery is the tomb of Tutankhamun (King Tut) found in 1922 by British archaelogists. Of this discovery, they found Tutankhamun's funerary mask of solid gold (11kg) along with many other treasures and artifacts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun
It was the culmination of months of work; at last the coffin of the young king was revealed, covered in linen shrouds. Howard Carter:
“... and as the last was removed a gasp of wonderment escaped our lips, so gorgeous was the sight that met our eye: a golden effigy of the young boy king, of most magnificent workmanship, filled the whole of the interior of the sarcophagus.

This was the lid of a wonderful coffin in the form of the young king, some seven feet in length, resting upon a low bier in the form of a lion, and no doubt the outermost in a series of coffins, nested one within the other, enclosing the mortal remains of the king. Clasping the body of this magnificent monument were two winged goddesses, Isis and Neith, wrought in rich gold work upon gesso, as brilliant as the day the coffin was made. While this decoration was rendered in fine bas-relief, the head and hands of the king were in the round, in massive gold of the finest sculpture, surpassing anything we could have imagined. The hands, crossed over the breast, held the royal emblems - the Crook and the Flail - encrusted with deep blue faience. The face and features were wrought in sheet gold. The eyes were of aragonite and obsidian, the eyebrow and eyelids inlaid with lapis lazuli. There was a touch of realism, for while the rest of this coffin, covered with feathered ornament, was of brilliant gold, that of the bare face and hands seemed different, the gold of the flesh being of different alloy, thus conveying an impression of the grayness of death. Upon the forehead of this recumbent figure of the king were two emblems delicately worked in brilliant inlay - the Cobra and the Vulture - symbols of Upper and Lower Egypt, but perhaps the most touching, in its human simplicity, was the tiny wreath of flowers around these symbols, as it pleased us to think, the last farewell offering of the widowed girl queen to her husband, the youthful representative of the "Two Kingdoms.”