Yesterday, I had the opportunity to visit, easily and better known as the Egyptian Museum. I loved the museum and I learnt so much. Cairo is bringing me way back to the BC years. It makes me feel really the best of strangeness and fuzziness inside knowing this country holds so much pride in their history, ancestors and cultures. We are not just talking about a century; we are talking about forgotten history found again. It brings a shiver down my back thinking of the hidden treasures under centuries of earth rumbles. Egypt is the anthropological heaven.

The museum is the famous house for many Pharaohs and has an extensive collection of priceless Egyptian antiquities. It is also the house of the iconic and perhaps the Pharaoh that most of us are most familiar with; the boy King Tutankhamun. He ascended to his throne at a tender age of 9 and died at an early age of 18. His sudden death has left many anthropologists and historians’ clueless till today. Most speculate that he died of malaria because they found the deadliest strain of malaria in his DNA as well as an infection of his badly broken leg. He bought revolutions to the history of Egypt and the God they believed in. It was surreal to meet him or his tomb and see his life unfold through his belongings, not forgetting his celebrated golden mask. His tomb was found almost a century ago, to be precise in the year 1922, almost intact by Howard Carter and George Herbert.

The Egyptians love their perfumes and incense. They used to carry their perfumes everywhere they went in very pretty containers usually made of porcelain and ebony. The Egyptians are also huge believers of afterlife hence they embalm the dead with perfumes made from natural products, trying to keep the body as intact as possible. They put perfumes in the tomb of the dead because they want their souls to be accompanied by their perfumes to heaven. Centuries later, all we can find in the museum is this containers, the perfumes have all worn off. There are claims that when King Tutankhamun was found after his death, there was still a waft of the smell of his perfume which shows how potent the perfume was and how good their perfume making skills were.

Unfortunately, I could not tour the entire collection because I did not have enough time on my hands. The museum has seven different, large sections. I did not get to see the coin and papyrus. Had glimpses of the some of the many sarcophagi and some of the amazing artefacts before it was closing time. Sadly, as you know museums do not let one carry a camera inside. I cannot show you the beauty of the past…not that the pictures would do any justice than seeing it in person.