42/50.- Cairo, Egyptian museum, a mummy

This sarcophagus is in the second plant of the museum. It is recommended to visit this plant counterclockwise, starting with room number 45.

This is not a photo of a mummy, but of two sarcophagus: one inside the other. To see the royal mummies you have to buy a special ticket.

In the royal mummies rooms you will see the bodies of some pharaohs who ruled the empire between 1552 and 1069 BC. These rooms were closed several years because the local government thought it was not ethic to show corpses in a museum.

This will be the museum's last photo. Let's take a look at a street in modern Cairo ...

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