The 22 mummies will be transferred from the National Museum in Freedom Square (Tahriar) to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in the Fustat district, Cairo, on April 3.
The royal mummies consisting of 18 mummies of kings and four queens, along with 17 coffins from the 17, 18, 19 and 20 dynasties, will be moved to the new museum. The mummies included kings Ramses II, Seti I, Seqnenre and Tuthmoses III, as well as the queens Hatshepsut, Meritamun, etc.
Car procession of Egyptian mummies. Photo: Ahramonline. The procession is said to take the audience back to the ancient Egyptian era, when kings and queens were brought to their tombs and the afterlife. The mummies will be transported on the Nile and then accompanied by a carriage. The Ministry of the Interior of Egypt announced it would close some roads and major bridges in Cairo on the evening of April 3 to move the mummies. Completely closes from 18:00 to 20:30 pm on April 3, including the main points of Tu Do Square and Sadat subway station. Final preparations for the relocation parade are being completed. This is considered a rare event in Egyptian history. It is expected that more than 400 TV channels, international press representatives will participate in this event. The National Civilization Museum of Egypt covers an area of about 135,000 square meters with more than 23,235 square meters of exhibition space in the ancient city of Fustat, Cairo and overlooking Lake Ain Al-Sira, near the Giza Pyramids. This will be the place to display more than 50,000 artifacts about Egyptian civilizations from prehistoric times to the present day. The new museum has a unique architecture that simulates images of ancient pyramids and will be a work not to be missed when visiting Egypt.
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