The ground floor of the building can be divided into five sections. Each one parallel to the next. The middle section (Third section) being the main hall with the largest artefacts. I started with the corridor on the extreme left. As you walk down this corridor, you have access to the artefacts in the first two sections of the ground floor of the Egyptian museum in Cairo. From what I understand, the left sections hold the treasures that are the oldest. They belong to the Old and Middle Kingdom. The last room in the second row is where the New Kingdom begins. As you exit out of the corridor you will find a room that spans all five sections. This has the displays of the New kingdom.

From the first two sections I made my way to the last to sections. I.e. Section four and five. The first room in section four is a continuation of the New Kingdom. As you head down the corridor you can visit the rooms on your right which ae part of section four and the artefacts in section five. The remaining rooms are for the late period, the Graeco Roman period, The Meroitic Numbian period and the Ptolemic period.

With this done you will find yourself back at the main entrance. It’s now time to enter the main hall which houses the largest artefacts in the museum. Two large boats flank the hall on either side. You wouldn’t think much of them but considering their size and the fact that wood was very expensive (and not available) in ancient Egypt meant that the boats were expensive. The large 20,000-ton statues of Amennotep III, his wife and three children however is the artefact that demands attention.