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to purchase another ticket to visit the room with the
                                                               golden mask, but you can easily see it from the door-
                                                               way. No photos allowed in that room.)
                                                                Another highlight for us was the Royal Mummy
                                                               Room. This too requires an extra ticket to view the 11
                                                               mummies on display. We had seen mummies before
                                                               in a San Diego museum, so we weren’t blown away
                                                               by the two rows of leather-skinned remains. But my
                                                               appreciation grew as we realized these were mum-
                                                               mies of some of the most famous rulers in history,
                                                               including the recently discovered remains of Hat-
                                                               shepsut.
                                                                Hatshepsut, we would learn later in our trip, is
                                                               revered as a great queen, much more admired than
                                                               Cleopatra, dismissed as a Greek outsider. Also
                                                               included in the gang of 11 was perhaps the most
                                                               influential of all Pharaohs, Ramses II, who construct-




































                                                               Left to right: A stylized stone sar-
                                                               cophagus. a golden King Tut inner
                                                               death mask, his royal throne, and the
                                                               famous golden death mask.



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