The world watched their golden parade in 2021: twenty kings and queens (Ramses II and Hatshepsut among them) rest in NMEC's Royal Mummies Hall in Fustat — a dim solemn display worthy of royal dead, with a main gallery telling Egypt from stone to modernity. The mummies' hall is the jewel — photography banned within in respect; it overlooks Ain El-Sira lake near the Religions Compound — join both in one Old Cairo run; two hours suffice, calmer than the GEM crowds.