On Saturday, April 3, Egypt held a spectacular parade to celebrate the transport of 22 of its ancient royal mummies (18 kinds and 4 queens) through the capital, Cairo, to their new home in the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation. Most of the mummies belong to the ancient New Kingdom, which ruled Egypt between 1539 BC to 1075 BC, according to the ministry of antiquities. They included Ramses II, one of the country’s most famous pharaohs, and Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt’s only woman pharaoh – who wore a false beard to overcome tradition requiring women to play only secondary roles in the royal hierarchy.
The mummified remains of the pharaohs and other royals were transported in climate-controlled cases loaded onto trucks decorated with wings and pharaonic design for the hour-long journey from their previous home in the older, Egyptian Museum.
The vehicles were designed to appear like the ancient boats used to carry deceased pharaohs to their tombs.
Many Egyptians
enjoyed the parade as a break from the pandemic, while. others worried that the
mummy migration has brought bad luck. They point to a fatal train wreck in
central Egypt, a building collapse in Cairo, and the bizarre blockage of the
Suez Canal as being connected to “the mummies curse.” "Death will come on
quick wings for those who disturb the king's peace," the warning on the
Tutankhamun tomb read before it was opened in 1922. Read more at The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb
Below are three versions with the first one being the live stream of the events.
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