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Why the
Egyptian Museum is special
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo displays over 100,000 artifacts
covering 4000 years, from 3500 BC to 500 AD.
King Tut exhibit
The small exhibition room #4 displays a pittance of those
antiquities, but what treasures it holds. It's the main King
Tutankhamun ("Tut") room, which draws travelers from around the
world eager to see King Tut's famous gold burial mask, an
artistic masterpiece (see photo).
That room also houses King Tut's innermost coffin, made of solid
gold (his mummy remains in his tomb in the distant Valley of the
Kings).
King Tutankhamun was an obscure pharaoh who died at 18, too
young to have much chance to leave his mark on history. He's
famous only because his precious burial treasures were
miraculously found intact in 1922, untouched by the ancient tomb
robbers who stripped the burial chambers of the major
pharaohs.We can only imagine how magnificent the treasures in
those tombs must have been.
Mummy Room
The Egyptian Museum has more displays that render visitors
speechless, including the royal Mummy Room where famous pharaohs
lie in state. You come face-to-face with the exposed mummified
head of Rameses II, the greatest pharaoh of all time.
What leading travel books say about the Egyptian Museum
The Egyptian Museum contains some of the world's most
extraordinary antiquities.
Exploring Egypt
Fodor's
Some of the mightiest men in ancient history lie in the Egyptian
Museum's Mummy Room.
Egypt
Cadogan Guides
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