The Egyptomaniacs review: The Egyptian Museum App

If you are visiting the Egyptian museum, this app by tagipedia will provide you with a nice guided tour, so you can explore the museum and enjoy the trip without wasting time or getting lost. If you're not visiting the Museum soon, this app give you a good summary and a lot of things to look forward to. 

The app provides a simple mini map to all of the rooms in the museum besides information on the most important pieces and collections.

The Egyptian Museum app logo by tagipedia

It contains a highlighted tour that will introduce you to some of the highlights of the museum's collection including some significant pieces like:

  • Replica of  the Rosseta Stone and the Narmer Palette
  • Statue of Hetepdief and the Statue of Djoser
  • The Menkaure triads
  • The treasures of Hetepheres
  • The sphinx of Hatshepsut
  • The Royal mummies

Museum room map

New Kingdom artefacts

Main navigation window




Features

Highlight Tour of the Egyptian Museum

  • 36 Highlight tour of the Egyptian museum 
  • Artefact search and locator

  • Entrance fees
  • Museum Operation hours
  • Current events
  • Simple map of the rooms and collections
  • Supports 2 languages (Arabic and English) 

Bugs and downsides

The app contains many errors and bugs which we hope the developers fix as soon as possible, including:

  • Java errors
  • Bluetooth feature of detecting nearby items isn’t working
  • Items Scanner isn’t functional
  • The app isn’t updated regularly so it misses many events
  • It’s supposed to be supporting french language also but it’s also bugged.

The bottom line

Apps supporting museums in Egypt are scarce and this app has great potential in a lacking market regardless of all the present bugs. We recommend giving it a try but do hope the developers at tagipedia work their way around the many bugs. 
The app is only available on Play Store for free download. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The myth of Jason and Medea: Love, Sacrifice and Revenge

Image
Jason and the Golden Fleece  One day there was a king named Aeson who was ruling the province “Iolcus” in Thessaly. Until, Pelias, the half-brother of Aeson deposed him and took the throne of Iolcus, threatening to kill any who disputed his claim.  Meanwhile the queen Alcimede , wife of Aeson was pregnant with a boy. She claimed that the boy died as she was giving birth to protect the child.  Aeson sent his son Jason (Iason in Greek) to the old Centaur Chiron who was living on the mountain of Pelion in Thessaly. Chiron brought up Jason and taught him how to fight and use all kinds of weapons until Jason became a strong, well-built young man.  After many years, Jason decided to return to Iolcus to regain his kingdom from Pelias.  Pelias felt guilty for what he had committed against his half-brother, so he asked his Oracle about the fate of his throne. The Oracle gave him a prophecy warning him of (a man with one shoe). This man was no other than Jason who helped an old woman to cross t
Read more

The Amduat: The ancient Egyptian book of the underworld

Image
Imi dw3t, means the book of what is in the Duat "Netherworld". It also means the book of the hidden chamber. It was an important funerary text of the New Kingdom of Egypt. It tells the journey of the sun god Re through the Netherworld. It is often believed that the king takes the same journey and becomes one with Re in eternal life. The Amduat is divided into twelve hours according to the twelve hours of the night: it begins when the sun sets in the west and rises again in the east. The boat of the sun god faces many obstacles and the journey becomes a drama. The earliest complete copies of the Amduat are retrieved from the tomb of Thutmose the Third. The hours of the Amduat The first hour: the sun god enters into the Netherworld "the gate which swallows all" represented as ram-headed Ba. It describes the Netherworld's inhabitants and there's  a list of 741 deities in the burial chamber. The second and third hour: it describes the  fertile farmlands of the
Read more

The Ka and the Ba

Image
Understanding the pivotal concepts of Egyptian identity is a necessity to understand hieroglyphic writing. The Ka and the Ba are among the most important and complex hieroglyphic ideograms. "Ka" is a concept deeply rooted in the Ancient Egyptian Persona. In the simplest terms, it is the idea that each one of us has a soul consort mirroring our own souls, our spiritual double. This double takes after our own bodies "ghet" for it can only materialise with it to form us as a whole. This consort lives on even after our own death. Offerings to the Ka were a necessity since, like the person's physical body, the Ka needed nourishment. The idea is a bit similar to the Qareen in Islamic religion, however the nature of the Ka remains much more ambiguous. The phonetic biliteral sign with the predominant ideogram of the Ka represents the breast and outstretched arms of a person pictorially. Ka can also mean personality, individuality and even a man's fortune or his posi
Read more