A procession of Egyptian royal mummies arrives at the Museum of Civilization amidst a majestic historical ceremony

In a majestic historical scene, the procession of royal mummies set off from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, in the center of the Egyptian capital Cairo, on Saturday evening, to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat, south of the capital, where the royal mummies will settle in their final resting place.
The royal procession consisting of 22 mummies (18 kings and four queens) was received upon his arrival at the Museum of Civilization by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, and the guard of honor fired 21 shots greeting the kings of Egypt from in front of the museum. On their recent trip to the Museum of Civilization in a revered way. And that after spending 100 years in the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir.
The procession proceeded through carriages decorated with Pharaonic drawings and inscriptions and equipped with a special atmosphere containing nitrogen so that the mummies were in suitable conditions for transportation, and each carriage bore the name of the king inside, amid tight security guarding, and the motorcade provided motorcycles to the Republican Guard. The procession took about 40 minutes, during which seven were cut. Kilometers ahead of it, King Seknen Ra of the seventeenth Pharaonic dynasty (sixteenth century BC), and at its rear King Ramses the ninth of the twentieth dynasty (twelfth century B.C. It also included King Ramses II and Queen Hatshepsut. Thousands of Egyptians gathered to watch the historical event. Along the procession road, where pharaonic ceremonies began from Tahrir Square to set off carriages carrying the mummies of kings, in a majestic festive atmosphere, it extended to the Civilization Museum, where a concert was waiting for the kings.
Tahrir Square was also adorned with a Pharaonic obelisk brought from Luxor, and the surrounding buildings were decorated with lights. On Saturday evening President El-Sisi opened the central hall of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, which received the procession of royal mummies, and includes nearly 1,600 artifacts about Egyptian civilization throughout its ages From prehistoric times, through the Pharaonic, Greek, Roman, Coptic and Islamic eras, up to the modern and contemporary times, the Mummies Hall receives visitors from April 18, which coincides with World Heritage Day. The mummies will be displayed in special boxes equipped with modern tools to control the temperature and humidity, and each mummy will display its own sarcophagus.

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