The Cairo Museum costs LE40 to visit. The Luxor Museum costs LE55 and is worth the extra charge although it is smaller. It is air conditioned for a start, and is a modern building with displays that are similar to leading museums all over the world. Here's just a few of the treasures that can be seen there. The emphasis is on quality, not quantity. An extension to the museum opened in early 2004, containing military items, as well as the mummies of Ahmose and Rameses I.

Amenohotep III stands guard outside the museum. He also appears several times inside the museum - to the right are a basalt statue of the Pharaoh and a giant head in red granite.

He was one of Egypt's most powerful pharaohs, and the father of Akhenaten.

Another of the more powerful pharaohs - Tuthmosis III, Below the basalt statue is a relief from his temple at Deir-el-Bahari - he was the son of Tuthmosis II, husband of Hatshepsut, and as he came to the throne as a young child, his step-mother acted as regent. Hatshepsut became pharoah in her own right, effectively usurping Tuthmosis. On her death, he finally came to the throne, reigning for more than 50 years. He was one of the empire-building pharoahs, and also built many monuments at Karnak. Strangely enough, he began his destruction of Hatshepsut's memory after more than 20 years on the throne - if he was that bitter about her, why did he wait so long?