The Royal Mummies Hall in Fustat is the most affecting room in Cairo. Ramesses II, Seti I, Hatshepsut and nineteen others lie in individual cases in low light, with no photography permitted. The main museum upstairs runs the whole span of Egyptian civilisation from prehistory to the present, which is a useful frame if you are arriving cold.
We go mid-morning, when the mummies hall is quiet. The hall is deliberately cold and dim and takes about forty minutes. Upstairs afterwards for the main chronological gallery, which most visitors skip and should not.
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Tell us and we will change it, or cancel it, at no cost. There is no cancellation fee and no deadline to worry about, because nothing has been paid up front. If plans shift while you are already here, we will rearrange what we can on the day.
The tourist regions are heavily policed and we work in them daily. Your guide stays with you at every site. If you are travelling alone, tell us - we will match you with a guide accordingly.
Pairs well with
Best seller The world's largest single-civilisation museum, then the plateau it was built to face.
Best seller The plateau on its own, in four hours, without the museum attached.
The old museum, still holding the Old Kingdom masterpieces the new one did not take.
