The Egyptian Museum: The Final Resting Place
Happy Thanksgiving! :) Today, most families in the US will probably have Turkey for dinner together with family and friends. The start of the festive season, it also marks the end of yet another busy year full of developments and happenings. What better day to mark the end of my posts on Egypt. Today, I end my journey to Egypt with the final resting place for most of Egypt's great treasures: The Egyptian Museum. After thousands of years of history, the final resting place for most of the Egyptian treasures is not located in the Valley of the Kings, nor inside Great Pyramids. Instead, their final resting place is inside the Egyptian Museum or somewhere in a box in its basement. First opened in 1863 my guidebook tells me that the museum had to move twice before settling at its current building in which it has been housed since 1902. Even then, it is still not large enough to accomodate all ...