The next day we woke up a little bit earlier and decided to visit the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities. This is a massive museum that displays artifacts from the Old Kingdom all the way up to the Greco-Roman Era. We took a cab there and ended up driving straight through Tehrir Square as the museum is only one or two blocks away. On that particular day nothing was going on so we weren’t in danger. (although the next day it erupted into riots and violence).
You are not allowed to take cameras in so I have no pictures. Sad. We wandered through the majority of the museum; it’s so big it’s almost impossible to visit it all in one day. Some of the highlights: Tutankhamun’s whole gallery (his throne chair, sarcophagi, golden mask, jewelry), the exhibit on Akhenaten and Nefertiti (though Nefertiti’s bust is in Berlin. I saw it there last year.) and the mummy room. It was absolutely amazing to see, upclose, Ancient Egyptians like Ramses II and one of the few female pharaohs, Hatshepsut.
The next day was a full day of shopping. I found and H&M and went crazy. I’m glad we got everything we needed because the day after that, Cairo really blew up with protests and police. We had an inside day. We slept in and laid around watching movies and using Ryan’s superfast internet.
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