Museum sights in Suez Canal

1. Ismailia Museum

   • Ismailia, Egypt
   • Sights › Museum

   More than 4000 objects from Pharaonic and Graeco-Roman times are housed at the small but interesting Ismailia Museum. The collection includes statues, scarabs, stelae and records of the first canal, built between the Bitter Lakes and Bubastis by the Persian ruler Darius. The highlight of the museum is a 4th-century-AD mosaic depicting characters from Greek and Roman mythology. At the top Phaedra is sending a love letter to her stepson Hippolytus, while below Dionysus is riding a chariot driven by Eros. The bottom section recounts the virtues of Hercules.

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   Military Museum

   • Port Said, Egypt
   • Sights › Museum

   This compact museum houses relics from the 1956 Suez Crisis and the 1967 and 1973 wars with Israel, such as a few captured US tanks with the Star of David painted on them, as well as an odd collection of UXOs (unexploded ordnance).

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