1. parts of the egyptian museum feel like a warehouse, stacked with badly-labeled yet jaw-droppingly impressive relics from egypt's ancient past. about half of the second floor was taken up by hundreds of ornate sarcophagi, almost all from pharaohs i've never heard of, and any one of them would be the premier attraction in almost any other museum in the world.
2. i now get why tutankhamen is such a big deal. his stuff had far and away the best preserved, most pretty and sparkly stuff of all the mummies in da mathaf. unfortunately, seeing the sparkle involves putting up with hordes of annoying tour groups, which pretty much cancels out all the pleasure of seeing tut's riches.
3. the annoying tour groups pretty much ignore everything but tut and the mummies.
