The Egyptian Museum is considered one of the first museums in the world to be established as a public museum, unlike the museums that preceded it. The museum includes more than 180,000 artifacts, the most important of which are the archaeological collections found in the tombs of the kings and the royal entourage of the Middle Dynasty in Dahshur in 1894. The museum now includes the largest collection of archaeological sites in the world, a world that expresses all stages of ancient Egyptian history.