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After breakfast four of us walked across the street to the Egypt Museum.

Canopic Jars – a set of four jars that held mummified internal organs. The organs were guarded in the afterlife by the four sons of Horus: Hapy (baboon) – lungs; Imsety (human) – liver); Duamutef (jackal) – stomach; and Qebehsenuef (falcon) – intestines. Canopic Chests hold the jars, and Canopic Shrines hold the chests.

Yuya and Thuya – the parents of Queen Tiye, grandparents of Akhenaten, great-grandparents of King Tut. Yuya was an advisor, and father-in-law, of King Amenhotep

King Tut – most artifacts cannot be photographed.

Nile River


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