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Very cool. Hope to check it out someday. The original Egyptian Museum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Museum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Mus
by breck 2y ago
Very cool. Hope to check it out someday.
The original Egyptian Museum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Museum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Museum) is my favorite of all time. They have so many artifacts that some items, thousands of years old, that might be the centerpiece of a museum in the far younger United States, were used as benches.
I was there in 2011. One day I was the only visitor.
I hung out in the Pharaoh room for a while. Just me and a couple of guys who used to rule the world (https://breckyunits.com/egypt.jpeg https://breckyunits.com/egypt.jpeg).
- stubish 2y agoTourist numbers dropped after the '97 Luxor massacre, then after the first gulf war, and probably further after the second. It was reasonably busy when I visited several months before the second gulf war, but nowhere near as much as you should expect. There was a queue to see the famous gold death mask.