Procession of royal mummies (Kings of Ancient Egypt)

Tomorrow, Saturday 3 April 2021, the world's attention will turn to Cairo to follow the events of the mummies transport procession, from the Egyptian Museum to the Museum of Civilization in Fustat.

Dr. Zahi Hawass: The transfer of the mummies of 22 king and queen is a global event that will not be repeated

A majestic sight .. Details of the transfer of 22 kings and queens to the Museum of Civilization

Followers are awaiting the start of the majestic procession to transport 22 royal mummies through the streets of Cairo, as the procession includes a number of royal mummies dating back to the ages of the family (seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth), including 18 mummies for kings and 4 mummies for queens, and among the kings' Ramses II, Seqnen Ra, Thutmose III, Seti the First, Hatshepsut, Merit Amon, Ahmose and his wife Nefertari

The procession is supposed to start at sunset on April 3, and the procession is supposed to take between 40 and 45 minutes, to get from the Egyptian Museum to the Museum of Civilization

The rams in the middle of the square will be unveiled and lit with the obelisk and all the buildings and facades of the square, and shots will be fired upon the start of the procession in tribute to the great kings. With the participation of a group of famous artists

The procession enjoys special media coverage, as advertising space has been purchased in Arab and European countries, and the presence of a number of international dignitaries has been confirmed, as well as 400 TV channels have confirmed their transfer of the event, half of which are international channels

The second museum of civilization includes the oldest mummy of a young man dating back more than 35 thousand years that was discovered in the Nazlat Khater area in Sohag city

The mummies were fully secured by placing them in capsules and restoring them appropriately, and qualifying for presentation on April 18th. The Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Dr. Khaled Al-Anani, said: “The safety of the mummies is the first basis before any activity.”

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On the future of the Egyptian Museum after the transfer of mummies, the Ministry of Antiquities stated that all royal statues continue in the Egyptian Museum, in addition to 100,000 artifacts, while those wishing to see mummies go to the Museum of Civilization

A number of Egyptian artists will participate in the ceremony, including Hend Sabry, alongside the artist Yousra, Mona Zaki, the artist Ahmed Helmy, the families of Yassin, and Hussein Fahmy

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It is worth noting that the transfer of mummies is part of a huge project to develop methods for displaying antiquities, and reorganize their distribution in museums as a result of the increase in their number in the Egyptian Museum, and this came through the official page of the Ministry of State for Information

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CNN: The Parade of Royal Mummies is a grand celebration of Egypt's history and its greatest treasures

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The American CNN network shed light on Egypt's preparedness for a procession to transfer royal mummies to the Museum of Civilization in Fustat, and said that 22 kings and queens will be transferred from their current resting place to a new home after they roam the streets of Cairo in a majestic royal procession

She said the transfer looks like the plot of a movie, but is in fact part of a luxurious celebration of Egypt's history, and a project to transfer some of its greatest treasures to a new high-tech facility

On Saturday, the mummies of Ramses II and 21 of his pharaohs will participate in what is called "The Golden Show of the Pharaoh", a long-awaited event organized by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities

It is reported that the celebrations will include horse-drawn carriages and choirs singing in ancient languages ​​and a large number of movie stars and VIPs, but the Egyptian authorities have kept the official details of the event secret

 The network shed light on the enthusiasm of the Egyptians, who recently followed the rehearsals in central Cairo and quickly posted photos of mummies vehicles made especially for the event and decorated with old golden decorations, on social media

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The final step

She said that the aim of the show is to transfer 18 kings and four queens of Egypt, along with their coffins and possessions, from their old home in the Egyptian Museum. They will be transported five kilometers south, to their new high-tech headquarters at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC)

The Network explained to its foreign readers that the Museum of Civilization is not the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, which is scheduled to open to the public later this year. She said the Museum of Civilization is a completely different museum in the Fustat neighborhood of Cairo that would complement a trio of must-visit Egyptian-style museums in and around Cairo

Although the Museum of Civilization was partially opened in 2017, the show will signify the grand opening

"The whole idea is not the mummies, the whole idea is how to display the mummies ... It's the way you tell the story, it's the environment, it's the atmosphere you feel when you enter them," said Ahmed Ghoneim, executive director of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization

Ghoneim says that visitors entering the Royal Mummies Hall will experience something like entering a tomb in the Valley of the Kings

 

All 22 royal mummies date from the New Kingdom, an era in which underground tombs were built with hidden entrances to ward off tomb robbers, in a clear difference from their Old Kingdom counterparts who built massive pyramidal tombs.