The egyptian museum in cairo is the most famous museum in egypt it has a huge collection of more than 120000 exhibits and there is a royal mummy room with27 mummies when an important person died in ancient egypt people treated the body with themicals and wrapped it in bandages the egyptians also put food and jewels with their mummies to give the dead people some thing to eat and wear in their text life the most important exhibit in the museum is the gold mask of the egyptian king tutankhamun who lived about2700 years ago.