As tanks lurched to the sides of the main roads leading into the square, AFP reported that civilian volunteers helped the soldiers to remove the metal barriers, barbed wire and burned wrecks of cars left over from the 18-day uprising.
They also began dismantling the barriers around the nearby national museum, home to a treasure trove of Egyptian antiquities.
Mubarak stepped down from the presidency Friday night in the face of weeks of unprecedented street protests against his three-decade rule.
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