Museum of Egyptian archaeology Petrie – fourth in the world after Cairo, the British and the Berlin Museum of Egyptology for the amount and quality of exposure. It has more than 80 thousand exhibits, and your life is a colossal Assembly shall be obliged to two people. One Egyptologists-contemporaries have long considered just a fan, the second was a journalist and a traveler.

William Matthew Flinders Petrie received only education at home, but at the age of eight already knew French, Latin and Greek. At 24, he developed a method of Dating historical events and determining the age of Stonehenge. In the early 80-ies of the XIX century went to Egypt to study the pyramids and was shocked by the speed at which they are destroyed. Petrie lived in Egypt for forty-six years and became the largest specialist in this ancient civilization. He discovered and described in detail previously unknown treasure: the colossus of Ramses II, Fayum portraits, artifacts of the Mycenaean civilization, the stele of Merneptah – the first historical document that mentions Israel. Amateur-Egyptologist became the founder of the British school of archaeology, Professor of the University of London. In 1923, the Queen granted it to the knights.

Journalist and writer Amelia Edwards in 1873 went on a trip to Egypt and passionately love this country. His collection of Egyptian antiquities, she bequeathed to the College, University of London. As patron of the Egypt exploration Fund it has appointed Petrie Professor of Egyptology in College, and he was able to continue her research. In 1913 Petrie has also donated his collection to the College – formed a unique Museum collection.

Local exhibits illustrate the life in the Nile valley from prehistoric times until the Islamic period. Flint saw madriskogo period of more than five thousand years, topping the Royal scepter ersascope period younger than fifteen centuries. Copper adze worked as a carpenter Pharaoh of Snefru, father of the famous Cheops. Priceless alabaster stele with the image of the Pharaoh reformer Akhenaten, his wife Nefertiti and daughter Merytaten (XIV century BC). There are also the earliest Egyptian iron objects, the world's oldest papyri, which recorded medical texts on gynecology, dress dancers, made four and a half thousand years ago.

Spacious halls of the Museum, the exhibits can be viewed from all sides. Part of the collection is in dark areas for better safety of objects, the bright light can have a detrimental effect. Formed over several decades, the collection is no longer updated: now the export of artifacts from Egypt prohibited.