Sombol was too sleepy to open his eyes, let alone interact with the visitor who stood over him seeking human-canine contact.
Sensing the intruder's presence, Sombol opened one eye, looked at the man for a second or two, then went back to sleep.
The winter sun was delightful and the place where Sombol was napping – the vast courtyard of Cairo's Grand Egyptian Museum, or the GEM – was soothingly quiet. So it came as no surprise that he did not want to be a "good dog" and chose sleep over interacting with a human.
Sombol is one of half a dozen stray dogs that have in recent weeks made the showpiece museum near Cairo's Giza Pyramids their unlikely home, sharing the space with King Tutankhamun's treasures and majestic statues.
Their presence has added another, albeit different, attraction to the thousands of ancient Egyptian artefacts that fill the galleries of the $1-billion
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