Egyptian Museum

Established in 1858 on the banks of the nile, only to be ravaged by floods in 1878, because who knew the nile was prone to flooding. Really? Everyone? Oh, well. The collection now rests relatively safely, as long as you’re willing to overlook some revolutionary looting, in Downtown Cairo’s Tahrir Square.The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities (its formal name) houses over 5,000 years of Egyptian history. With the world’s largest collection of pharaonic antiquities, including many from Tutankhamun, the boy king.

Visitors are invited to explore a chronological history of ancient Egyptian culture, focusing on how royalty lived, and also how they were treated when they died. Spoiler alert… Quite well, in both cases.