Luxor’s Mummification Museum is a must-see.

Luxor’s Mummification Museum (open daily from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5-10 p.m. in the summer; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4-9 p.m. in the winter; no photography allowed) is located at the northern end of the Nile Shopping Center, below the Corniche, and does little to distinguish itself from other museums in the region.

It also does little to distinguish itself from other museums in the region.

It does, however, include a spoon and spatula that were used to extract the deceased’s brain (which the Egyptians did not consider to be a significant organ), as well as a well-preserved corpse of Maser-harti, an XXI Dynasty high priest of the goddess Amun.

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Free archeological lectures are held on Sundays at 7 p.m. throughout the winter months, with specialists such as Kent Weeks (who is now examining tomb KV5 in the Valley of the Kings) and Zbigniew Szafrański ( of the Polish Mission at Deir el-Bahri).

Visitors may access the museum’s Egyptology reference library, which is open daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and is free of charge.

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