We found ourselves asking this question more than on any other tour so far. We've seen lots of "old," but this stuff is really OLD! We started and ended our tour of Egypt in Cairo. This is quite the city -- 15 million people, traffic, horns, shoe stores, mosques, pyramids, high rises, casinos, vegetable carts, statues, markets, more traffic, louder horns, more shoe stores -- well, you get the idea! We began at the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities where we got to see real mummies including Ramses II and rooms filled with the treasures extracted from the world-famous tomb of the boy-king, King Tutankhamun -- or King Tut as we know him. Sorry, no pictures of the famous golden mask found on King Tut's mummy, but we did see it along with the solid gold coffin
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