Information technology and culture: The State Hermitage Museum presents a tour “Ancient Egypt” with a mobile audio guide

The State Hermitage Museum is a tour of "Ancient Egypt" on the application "Audio Guide through the Hermitage". This is the fourth official tour of the Hermitage application "Audio Guide", released in the summer of 2014. The app is available for iPhone and iPad.

The culture of Ancient Egypt attracts with its mystery and originality: these are famous pyramids, sphinxes and mythical and mysterious Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Numerous and diverse in composition ancient Egyptian collection of the Hermitage allows us representing the face of the greatest ancient culture and history of all kingdoms, and Hellenistic Egypt, including the reign of the last Egyptian queen - the famous Cleopatra, and the conquest of the country by Rome, and the era of Egypt under Byzantine rule.

Fascinating thematic tour of the Hermitage application immerse users in the extraordinary atmosphere of the pharaohs and sphinxes. During the tour, they will be introduced to 20 exhibits hall of ancient Egypt, including the most famous and mysterious ancient Egyptian artifact collection of the Hermitage - a well-preserved mummy of the priest Pa-di-Istan, who lived 3,000 years ago.