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Cairo Museum has A LOT ancient artefacts from Pharaonic Egypt! Not pretty a lot of them don't have tugs in English :( And the museum's cashier lies me :(
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Date of experience: January 2021
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Huge Museum. Lots to see, plan on spending at least two hours in the Museum Amazing to see ancient history and architecture. would suggest definitely take a guide to explain everything
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Date of experience: January 2021
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Was a great few hours to see all the history displayed here. There was just soo much to see. Stag were pleasantly helpful
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Date of experience: January 2021
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Can't say enough about this place. It probably has more monuments than all other countries combined. Need to visit again as it was not enough.
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Date of experience: January 2021
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We visited the museum in January 2021. Its genuinely huge, and I can see it getting Very Very crowded when COVID isn't going on. I feel like we saw most of it. The highlight is the King Tut exhibit. There is a no-camera/no-pone section that contains Tut's mask, I would run to this first (2nd floor, middle-back of the museum). Only 10 people are permitted in at a time, so get there early. Our plan was to see the royal mummies next, but it was closed, as they seem to be moving the royal mummies to a new museum. I won't go into everything in the museum, but I did enjoy the animal room, mummified fish the size of a bean bag chair.... crocodiles, baboons, it was pretty amazing. We spent 4ish hours there overall, at the end of our 2 week Egypt trip. Like other parts of Egypt, there are touts outside who want to help you with everything, and get money from you too. I find this annoying, and I find their persistence to be even more annoying, but this is not the fault of the museum.…
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Date of experience: January 2021
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