Photo Set: Inside Cairo’s Egyptian Museum

Enter Cairo’s Egyptian Museum and step inside a magical place, filled with the treasures of legendary Pharaohs and mummies galore.

Take a look through our photos from the production of Museum Secrets: Inside Cairo’s Egyptian Museum, and you’ll soon realize that not all of the museum’s secrets are kept inside its walls. We explored an underground necropolis to find out why ancient Egyptians mummified cats, baboons and falcons by the millions and we discovered the cryptic inscriptions of a pyramid’s capstone that reveal the secret of its spiritual power.

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Do you have any photos you’d like to contribute to our Group Page on Flickr?
We’ve got a group going called Museum Secrets: Intriguing Artifacts, intended as a place for sharing the best photos of museum artifacts, art, and hidden spaces from museums around the world. Sometimes you discover intriguing historical objects outside the museum walls, so feel free to submit those as well — for a good example, check out our great shot of animal mummies found in an underground necropolis in Egypt.

Please join us in building an incredible collection of the world’s greatest treasures!