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UTUSN

(76,353 posts) Mon Nov 3, 2025, 11:28 PM Nov 3

The short & the longish (saving time 4 U) views of Egypt's massive museum

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The short & the longish (saving time 4 U) views of Egypt's massive museum (Original Post) UTUSN Nov 3 OP

I hope I can return to Egypt and tour the new museum. I visited the Cairo Museum in 2012 (at the height of the Arab sinkingfeeling Nov 5 #1

Incredible-you! - ain't this museum something! - plus, we can see everything online! UTUSN Nov 5 #2

I would have liked to have seen The Pyramids but that didn't work out. This museum looks fantastic! Powerful.... electric_blue68 Nov 6 #3

sinkingfeeling

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1. I hope I can return to Egypt and tour the new museum. I visited the Cairo Museum in 2012 (at the height of the Arab

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Wed Nov 5, 2025, 09:55 PM

Nov 5

Spring). We were in the Tut exhibit when I turned around and came face to face with the gold Tut death mask. I was within inches of one of the world's most valuable artifacts. It was out of its glass case and being carried by 2 museum workers to be cleaned. It was beautiful and totally shocking. The urge to reach out and touch it was almost impossible to suppress. I think I would have been arrested or shot if I had given into the urge.

UTUSN

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2. Incredible-you! - ain't this museum something! - plus, we can see everything online!

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Wed Nov 5, 2025, 09:58 PM

Nov 5

electric_blue68

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3. I would have liked to have seen The Pyramids but that didn't work out. This museum looks fantastic! Powerful....

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Thu Nov 6, 2025, 07:40 PM

Nov 6

I did see King Tut when they had the exhibition at the Met in NYC.

Many wonderful Egyptian artifacts at the Met.
And the special big room they built to house The Temple of Dendur which would have been buried under water from the Aswan High Dam that was being built. Quite magical.

Thanks for the vids!

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