This room was created in 1940 to the design of Alexander Sivkov, the chief architect of the State Hermitage, to replace the rooms that formed the main Winter Palace canteen.
The display is devoted to the culture and art of Ancient Egypt and spans a period from the 4th millennium B.C. to the beginning of the Christian Era. It includes monumental sculpture and small-scale plastic art, reliefs, sarcophagi, articles of daily use and craft items. Among the museum's masterpieces are the statue of Amenemhat III (19th century B.C.), a wooden statue of a priest (late 15th - early 14th centuries B.C.), a bronze statuette of an Ethiopian king (8th century B.C.) and the stele of Ipi (first half of the 14th century B.C.)
