The Egyptian Museum in Cairo Tour | Egypt Travel Blog: Day 09 (Part 58) 08D20

The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities | The Egyptian Museum in Cairo Tour

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Our next stop was the Cairo Museum in downtown Cairo, Tahrir Square. If you only have a short amount of time, seeing the museum can be a daunting task. It has 120,000 artifacts that would take you 9 months to peruse if you spent a minute on each one.

Our guide gave us a tour of some of the items. The museum was so massive that I didn’t know what to photograph/video or what not to. I will describe the highlights of what I remember seeing.

- Tutankhamun’s Mask

- Statue of Khufu

- Statue of Khafra

- Statue of the Dwarf Seneb and his Family

- Amenhotep III and Tiye Colossal Statue

- Masks of Yuya and Thuya

- Merneptah Stele

Some of the statues and cages were all made of gold and for sure I had never seen so much gold in my life.

There were several floors, but I only visited 3 floors near the central area. I saw some animal mummies and there was also a display of daily necessities used by the Royals those days. I saw some flip-flops and sandals. Footwear existed and was invented in Egypt, but was worn only by Royals and rich people.

From here we would go to our last tour in Egypt, the open-market bazaar called Khan El Khalili.