Watching mummies!

I am watching a programme on TV about a 'lost' Egyptian Pharaoh Queen, Hatshepsut and these documentaries are done particularly well by channel 5. How much of what they have discovered is 100% true is really something we will never know, but I do find it absolutely incredible how much can be discovered by using modern CT scans and even DNA technology. Even more surprising is the remarkable quality of preservation of the mummies, most of them from the museum in Cairo.
Ancient Egypt and the Pharaoh dynasties have always been one of my interests and I was fortunate enough to have a quick visit to the museum in Cairo some years ago when my partner and I had a holiday in Cyprus. We went on a mini cruise which gave us a day in Israel where we went to Jerusalem and Bethlehem and visited the church of the Nativity and then we had a day in Egypt where we had a fleeting visit to the museum after travelling down from Port Said along the banks of the Suez canal, and then we went to see the pyramids.
The museum was somewhere that I could have quite happily spent a whole week in and I was staggered by the jewellery and other artefacts that have survived over the thousands of years since everything was made and packed into the tombs because it looks as though it was only made yesterday.
Perhaps one of my regrets is that we didn't study any of the history of Ancient Egypt and the Pharaohs when I was at school, but I know that my grand-children have because I was able to help them with some of the homework and provide some of the photos that I took in the museum.