The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir held an exhibition of a gaggle of jewels and ornaments of Queen Ahhotep, the mom of King Ahmose the expeller of Hyksos, from the 18th Dynasty.

The sarcophagus of a girl named Isis-weret from the period of the twenty sixth Dynasty, which is displayed for the primary time.

The final director of the museum, Sabah Abdel-Razek, mentioned that the Queen Ahhotep’s jewellery assortment, features a broad necklace of gold, the top of which is adorned with a falcon’s head, and a sequence of gold with a scarab inlaid with lapis lazuli, which is without doubt one of the most lovely items of jewellery from the start of the 18th Dynasty.

There’s additionally a wide range of bracelets made from gold inlaid with, lapis lazuli, agate, turquoise, coloured glass, and different bracelets made from gold beads and semi-precious stones.

The items additionally embody a mirror made from gold and bronze with a deal with of cedar wooden inlaid with gold, and a hand fan made from wooden lined with gold and on it are scenes worshiping King Kamose.

Abdel-Razek mentioned that the exhibited items date again to the start of the New Kingdom, round 1550 B.C., and had been discovered by archaeologist Auguste Mariette within the tomb of Queen Ahhotep in Dra’ Abu el-Naga space in Luxor in 1859.

Queen Ahhotep was the spouse of King Seqenenre Tao II, a historic determine who led a battle of liberation in opposition to the Hyksos, and the mom of kings Kamose and Ahmose.

The latter efficiently expelled the Hyksos from Egypt and established the 18th Dynasty.