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 statue of the great God Amun, possibly sporting a splitting headache due to having lost a large chunk of his head over the millennia. Amun, god of the air, was originally one of the eight great Egyptian deities. But his role and importance grew over the centuries, eventually becoming the King of the deities. He eventually merged with Ra, the ancient sun god, to become the supreme Amun-Ra. Nice promotion.

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