Sunday, January 31, 2010

The Egyptian Museum

I spent almost 6 hours here and barely scraped the surface. If you saw the King Tut exhibit that toured the US, everything from that exhibit and much more is in this museum. There is an entire room with nothing but mummies (20 or more?). It's eerie because their heads have been unwrapped and they are very life-like, even after 4000 years.
There is so much here, but it is the proverbial dusty museum with some exhibits identified with nothing more than a number hand written in ink. A new museum is in the planning stages, but even with all the dust, it is still one of my favorite museums.
It also has given me a new cause - Bring Back the Rosetta Stone!!. The only reason that we can now read hieroglyphics is that the Rosetta stone was discovered in the town of Rosetta, Eqypt. It had the same text written in hieroglyphics and 2 Greek languages. Translating has allowed us to unlock many secrets of the ancient Egyptians. The Rosetta stone is in a British Museum, but I support taking it back to Egypt, its original home.
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