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‘Golden gate of the pharaohs’
In Egypt, 18 kings and 4 queen mummies are being transferred from the Cairo museum to the new Giza museum by a procession called the “Golden Gate of the Pharaohs.”
The mummies were kept in the Neoclassical Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The mummies are taken to the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, 5 km from Cairo, with a multimillionaire procession where intense security measures are taken.
The courtship is organized chronologically according to the period in which the kings and queens were in power.
Egyptian authorities worked for months for this historic ceremony and parade.
Egypt hopes the museum, which will be fully open next month, will also boost tourism.
Among the mummies carried, the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh II. Sekenenre Taa, I. Seti, II. Ramses, V. Ramses IX. Ramses, VI. Ramses, Sekenenre, III. There are also Tutmes, Hatshepsut, Meritamun, and Ahmose Nefertari.
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King II. Ramses ruled Egypt for 67 years from 1279 BC. C., becoming the first known monarch in history to sign a peace treaty.
Queen Hatshepsut, the woman whose mummy was taken, although the traditions of the time did not allow women to be pharaoh, III. Because Tuthmosis was too young to become king, he became the regent of the pharaoh and ruled the country for only 30 years.
The mummies’ journey will take 40 minutes, and each mummy is transported in nitrogen-filled gold-colored preservatives with shock-absorbing properties.
The mummy paths have also been reorganized to avoid shaking.
Mummies were found in the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes between 1881 and 1898.
“The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has done everything possible to fix, preserve and transport the mummies in a climate-controlled environment,” said Salima Ikram, professor of Egyptian studies at the American University in Cairo.
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Dr. “The mummies were frequently moved in Cairo before. In Thebes before Cairo. They were transported to safer coffins than their own,” added Ikram.
The remains of ancient rulers and mummies had previously been transported across the Nile by boat from the city of Luxor (ancient Thebes) to Cairo, and several times by trains with first class carriages.
‘The curse of the pharaohs’
The pharaohs have also been a source of superstitions throughout history. The British Lord Carnarvon, who financed the excavations in 1922 with a young pharaoh, died months after the tomb was opened from blood poisoning. One of the first investigators to enter the tomb died the following year. These events gave rise to the rumor of the ‘Curse of the Pharaohs’.
With the transport of the mummies, this rumor came to light again. Recently, there have been a number of disasters in Egypt. Dozens of people were killed in the train accident in Sohag last week, and at least 18 people died as a result of a building collapse in Cairo.
While preparations for the move were underway, the Suez Canal in Egypt was also blocked due to the grounding of the Ever Given freighter. The overlap of these events was shared on social media with the jokes “The curse of the pharaohs returned.”
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Saturday’s courtship was broadcast live on the Internet.
The mummies can be visited from April 18 at the new museum in Giza.
The new Great Egyptian Museum near the Giza pyramids, which houses the famous Tutankhamun collection, is also scheduled to open next year.
