We got up and then we got on our bus to go to the Ancient Egyptian Museum and the entrance had all of these ancient Egyptian god statues and there were mostly intact! We saw the real life Narmer pallet that recorded the first pharaoh to unify upper and lower Egypt. Upper Egypt was represented by a lotus flower and lower Egypt was represented by a papyrus plant. We saw a scribe statue, fully painted, all original colors. We also saw Egyptian figures at work around the palace. Some kneading dough, some brewing beer, some cooking, and more! There was also a statue of the pharaoh with two goddess at his side. We also saw King Tutankhamun’s jewelry and he had a bunch of necklaces, bracelets, huge earrings, and all of them either had huge charms, or all of the other stuff was made of gold. Now I think I know why a pharaoh was carried around in a chair all day. Whenever the pharaoh traveled, he had a portable cot that was rolled up with the rest of the luggage and when the night came, they got out the cot and the pharaoh slept. There was also these four shrines, which were basically huge boxes built to fit inside each other. And then inside of the smallest of the four was the sarcophagus with the mummy. We got to see real mummy’s and how preserved they were! The museum was super cool! Then we went shopping in a bazaar and I got a scarf! Then we went back to our hotel and then got ready for a dinner that we were having at one of my moms friends parents house. The dinner was really good. Then we went back to the hotel and went to sleep.
Eliza Green 