Cairo is the largest Islamic city in the world, it is also the model and the cultural center to which all Arabic speaking people look to. The city's universities, museums, cultural institutions are numerous and of a high level.
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo is one of the largest in the world.
On the ground floor of the museum are displayed great coffins and statues from every period.
In the rooms are located the coffins of the different pharaohs of the New Kingdom, among these the mummies of Ramesses II, his father Sethi I and of Amenhotep III, with many others including mummies of animals of every kind, dogs, cats, as well as crocodiles and mongooses.
The most famous collection in the museum is by far Tutankhamun's Treasure, the New Kingdom pharaoh, whose tomb was discovered almost intact in the Valley of the Kings,by the American archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922.
