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22 Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Mummies, Including Ramses II, Taken To New Resting Place In Style
Golden Parade : 22 ancient Egyptian pharaoh mummies, including Ramses II, taken to new resting place in Egypt’s capital Cairo in style.
The 18 kings and four queens were transported in climate-controlled cases loaded onto trucks.
The twenty-two (22) customized golden-finished trucks were decorated with wings and pharaonic designs.
Egypt on Saturday held a spectacular parade to transport mummified remains of 22 Egyptian pharaohs to their new resting place at National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat, Cairo.
Queen Hatshepsut, the most powerful female pharaoh, Queen Ahmose-Nefertari, daughter of Pharaoh Seqenenre Tao II, and Ramses II, who ruled Egypt for 67 years, were among the mummies on the journey.
Dubbed the ‘Pharaohs’ Golden Parade’, the pharaohs, the 18 kings and four queens were transported in climate-controlled cases loaded onto trucks. The twenty-two (22) customized golden-finished trucks were decorated with wings and pharaonic designs.
The pharaohs were originally buried around 3,000 years ago in secret tombs in the Valley of Kings and the nearby Deir el-Bahri site.
22 ancient Egyptian pharaoh mummies, including Ramses II, taken to new resting place in style
22 ancient Egyptian pharaoh mummies taken to new resting place in style
Egypt president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was in attendance during the hour-long journey
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In attendance during the hour-long journey from their previous home in the older, Egyptian Museum, is Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
He tweeted:
‘This majestic scene is a new evidence of the greatness of this people, the guarding of this unique civilization that extends into the depths of history’
Yesterday’s historical parade is part of Egypt’s efforts to revive a tourism industry left reeling following the 2011 popular uprising.
