The Egyptian Museum of Cairo : Footwear in ancient Egypt in Video

It has been awhile since I have posted any post or photo or video from my visits to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Now, I am seizing the opportunity to share a very shaky video footage I filmed at the Egyptian Museum when I went there in December.
When I went there for the first time , I found out that the Museum was holding a special small exhibit about footwear in Ancient Egypt.
The "Stepping through time : Footwear in ancient Egypt" exhibit showed how ancient Egyptians regardless of their social status and ranks had known footwear from sandals and shoes for their daily life as well their afterlife.
Yes, closed leather shoes and they looked amazing.
I know that it is not the best video ever and I apologize for the shaky filming in advance. Hope that enjoy and share that shaky Egyptian Chronicles less than 3-minutes production

It is another opportunity as well to share photos from my Egyptian Museum in Cairo photo collection showing ancient footwear just I have done with King Tutankhamen's extraterrestrial dagger.

Stepping through time exhibit was held at one of the vast museum's sections 

Inside the small exhibition held at the ground floor 

You can see how ancient Egyptians used different materials in making sandals and shoes whether fiber or straw or leather of wood.

Remains of wooden open shoes found in ancient Egyptian tombs 

A collection of ancient Egypt leather shoes as you can see 

Remains of ancient Egyptian leather open shoes 

A collection of ancient Egyptian leather open shoes 

A collection of ancient Egyptian fiber sandals and open shoes 

And of course , the famous King Tutankhamen's collection got its own share of Golden sandals found in his tomb in Luxor in 1922.

A golden statue of King Tutankhamen wearing
a sandal 

King Tutankhamen's black and golden sandals depicting him while killing enemies 

King Tutankhamen's golden sandals 

The golden statue of King Tut with his sandal along a collection of ancient Egyptian
deities 

Tutankhamun statue alone 

And King Tut was a human like us and he did not wear golden sandals and shoes all the time. 

Here is an amazing reconstructed model for a colored shoe found at King Tut's tomb in 1922

A sewn leather sandal found at King Tut's tomb

His grandparents "Tjuyu and Yuya" got their collection of fancy fiber sandals

Sandals from Tjuyu and Yuya collection "King Tutankhamen's grandparents"

A close up to one of the sandals 

Now personally , my favorite thing in that exhibit was a pair of amazing red colored leather shoes survived till this day. 

There was a reconstructed model besides that pair on how it should look.

The amazing ancient Egyptian red shoes 

Ancient Egyptians used to enjoy fancy shoes 

Another shot but this time , I used my iPhone and posted on Instagram

A shabti box of ancient Egyptian Pakhuru who used to work in Amun-Ra temples
depicting him while wearing a shoe

This exhibit was actually the best answer to the claim of the ultra-royalists in Egypt that Egyptian peasants loved being barefooted since the dawn of history.

Lately , ultra-royalists "they do exist in Egypt" defend the decision of King Farouk I in 1941 to have a national project to fight barefoot in Egyptian country and give the poor peasants shoes to wear claiming that Egyptians love to be barefoot !!
Rich people detonated to that project.
Historians look to that project as an evidence for the lack of social justice in Egypt during the rule of MohameAli-Royal family.
As you may know , I am a little old royalist but I do not whitewash the errors and cons of that era.