Fodor's Expert Review Greco-Roman Museum

This museum was founded in 1895 and contains the best of the pieces found at Pompey's Pillar—including a statue of the Apis Bull—and two statues from the catacombs at Kom el-Shoqafa. This is Egypt's finest museum covering the period from Alexander the Great's conquest in 332 BC to the third Persian occupation in AD 619. There are a great many pharaonic pieces here as well; indeed, the most impressive thing about the museum is that it shows the scale of cross-fertilization between pharaonic culture and the Greek and Roman cultures that followed. Highlights of the collection include early Christian mummies, remnants of a temple to the crocodile god Sobek, and a courtyard full of sun-drenched statuary.