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They were majestically transferred to new museum 22 royal mummies and 17 sarcophagi in Egypt. Their habitants Cairo witnessed a historical procession, witnessing the main cultural event.
For a long time, the competent authorities were preparing a procession worthy of history. The mummies and sarcophagi were transported from Archeological Museum in Tahrir square in the new Museum, area 135,000 square meters In the area Fustat from old cairo relatively close to its Greek Orthodox monastery Saint George.
The city was illuminated, while there was a special light in the buildings through which the old exhibits passed. Each mummy It was placed in a special nitrogen capsule to ensure its protection and the capsules were transported in special vehicles designed to keep them stable without vibrations.
The vehicles were black with gold motifs, to refer to the funeral ships of antiquity. Accompanied exhibitions cars and horses, since the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt wanted to revive the royal way in which the kings and queens of the country were transported to their last residence.
Around Tahrir Square, traffic was closed to both vehicles and pedestrians. Traffic was also banned along the 7 km route that the procession runs through.
The cars left at 8 pm and arrived at the museum half an hour later, while shots were heard. The Egyptian president was also in the museum Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, while in Cairo there are officials from all over the world.
Archaeologists have discovered mummies in two lots in the complex of “Temples” of Deir el-Bahri in Luxor and surroundings Valley of the Kings, in 1871. It has been staying in a small room since the 1950s.
However, the new museum offers facilities to control temperature and humidity. The decoration will refer to the underground tombs of the pharaohs, with their sarcophagi and personal effects.
The procession consists of 22 Egyptian royal mummies along with 17 royal sarcophagi of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th Dynasties, which belong to the New Kingdom, while among the mummies are those of the kings Ramses II, Set A ‘, Schengen Ra, Tuthmosis and Tuthmosis III, as well as the queens Hatshepsut, Meritamen , wife of King Amedhotep, and Ahmos Nefertari, wife of King Ahmos
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