Inaugurated in 2003, the Alexandria National Museum is located in a renovated Italian-style palace in Tariq Al-Horreya Street. Split into three floors

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Inaugurated in 2003, the Alexandria National Museum is located in a renovated Italian-style palace in Tariq Al-Horreya Street. Split into three floors, it contains over 1800 monumental exhibits tracing the history of the city and Egypt as a a whole. Here we see a Hathoric Capital - this is the capital of a stone column decorated with the head of the great goddess, Hathor. These were popular in Egyptian monumental architecture from the Middle Kingdom onwards. Hathor was a major goddess in the ancient polytheistic Egyptian religion who played a wide variety of roles. As a sky deity, she was the mother or consort of the sky god Horus and the sun god Ra, as well as the symbolic mother of their earthly representatives, the pharaohs.

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