I finally got to see the mummies. Of course you can’t take your camera inside the museum, so I didn’t get any photos of the mummies, but I got to cross it off my list. All I could think of when I was watching the looting of the museum on TV at my parents’ house last year was, “I never even made it there!” Now I have.
The grounds in front have some interesting sculptures. Not sure where they’re from, since I’m not a detail-oriented museum goer. I’m more of the “ooh, that looks cool . . . moving on” variety.
The building that was burned last year. The initial reports were that the museum was on fire. Thankfully people banded together to protect the museum from fire and looters.
The mummies were amazing — the idea that the Egyptians developed these preserving techniques, obviously having no idea how successful they would actually be. It was a good reminder to the kids — see these kings? They were once great, but now they’re just bones and tufts of hair. Nothing on this earth is eternal.
I also may have uttered a few threats like, “Pay attention because when you study this stuff or read about it in books someday, I want you to remember that I took you here and you saw these things in person!”
The other great exhibit was the King Tut room with all of his gold and the big face mask thing (that looks even better in person) and his many different coffins, gold body ornaments, and the things he “took to the afterlife with him.”
Leaving the museum — we stopped to buy some Tahrir square T-shirts and the guy gave the boys (and baby) flags.
funny graffiti
We came back to the hotel to find that housekeeping had turned the towels into sculptures.
