The Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotels in Hurghada has opened an educational museum that includes replicas of artifacts from the Pharaonic, Roman, Coptic and Islamic eras to train tourist guides.
Unlike in other museums, the students are allowed to touch and photograph the replicas.
The museum, which opens to the public in the evening, exhibits replicas of King Tutankhamun's treasure, his gold mask and his throne. It also exhibits the Nefertiti bust, which is displayed in the Berlin Museum, the Rosetta Stone, which is displayed in the British Museum, the statue of Akhenaten, the Sphinx and miniature models of the Philae, Karnak and Abu Simbel temples.
What distinguishes this Tutankhamun mask from the original is that its beard is intact.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
