Museum: Cairo musem offers blind tours

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For the average visitor to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, a stroll through the museums halls, crowded with ancient statues, papyrus, mummies, and gilded relics, offers an unparalleled journey into the visual splendour of Ancient Egypt.

It is a journey that has been, until recently, off limits to the sight-impaired or blind.

But a recent program offering guided tours for the blind or sight impaired by tour guides who are similarly handicapped is now, for the first time, giving them proper access to the greatest treasures from the times of the Pharaohs.