A new day dawned, and we hit the road to arrive at our first destination of the day: the Cairo Museum. Last time I was in Egypt, we had rushed through it in an hour because of our packed day. While we got to see the highlights, there was much left unseen. Thankfully that was mostly corrected this time, spending about 3 hours there.
The museum is over a century old. The artifacts are jumbled around it, separated by time period and category. They’ve been working on a new museum for over a decade, which should be open “soon”. We weaved our way with the mᴀsses of fellow tourists, feasting our eyes on thousands of ancient artifacts. Statues of pharaohs, boats, Tutankhamen’s treasures, wooden models, stone coffins, monuments, paintings, and much more spanning millennia are crammed into a building too small for its grandiose contents.
Here is a small sampling of the museum:
