Egyptian Antiquities Museum

The other day, I went to the Egyptian antiquities museum. The price difference between foreigners and Egyptians is ridiculous. But it was well worth it and the museum was amazing. 

A tour guide took us through the museum. The bottom floor is a lot of the same kind of statues and hieroglyphs you see in Luxor, but the biggest thing is upstairs. The mummies. 

There were mummies for all of the King Ramses (I, II, etc), another I couldn't remember and my queen. I saw my queen, Queen Hatshepsut. I love Queen Hatshepsut so I was so excited to see her mummy. 

Some of the mummies (all were 3000+ years old) had hair and most had teeth. They didn't look like rotting corpses at all. 

Also, they had all of King Tut's stuff. They found his tomb complete and untouched. He died at 19, so a lot of his stuff was child stuff. Most of it was covered in gold. 

His body was found in a coffin, in a coffin, in a coffin, in a box, in a box, in a box, in a box, in a cave, in a mountain. 

Ancient Egyptians things are very beautiful. There's a lot of gold, but a lot of paint too. Jewelry and coffins and all kinds of things like that are gold, and blue, and red. It's so awesome. 

So, when a king or queen dies, all their stuff is buried with them to use in the after life. Their slaves and servants live on, obviously, so they put statues in the tomb and then they will go to the second life when the king calls them. 

I couldn't take pictures in the museum, but I was so so great. Like everything in Egypt, it's incredible. All of this stuff is so old and so beautiful. I'm so lucky to be here. 

Thanks for reading. I hope you enjoyed. 

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Corie.