Cairo gets decorated in preparation for the "Procession of Royal Mummies"
The streets of Cairo are adorned the day after tomorrow, Saturday, to receive an unprecedented majestic procession that transports 22 mummies of the kings and queens of ancient Egypt under the name of "Procession of Royal Mummies" from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, where they stayed for more than a century, to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.
The mummies of 18 kings and four queens from the ages of the 17th to the 20th Pharaonic families will be transported on carriages decorated in the Pharaonic style bearing their names, respectively, according to the chronological order of their rule.
The seven-kilometer journey takes about 40 minutes, under heavy security guard, until it reaches the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, south of Cairo, which is one of the most important projects carried out in cooperation between the Egyptian government and UNESCO and includes various collections of Egyptian civilization from prehistoric times to Our present time.
The royal procession is led by the Pharaonic King Sqnan Ra Ta'a, who was one of the kings of the seventeenth dynasty in the sixteenth century BC, and he was the ruler of Thebes (Luxor now) and started the liberation war against the Hyksos.
The procession also includes some of the pharaohs, kings and queens, widely known to the masses of Egyptians, such as King Ramses II, the most famous king of the modern state (the Twentieth Dynasty) who ruled Egypt in the twelfth century BC for about sixty-seven years.
Their mummies were found in the Deir el-Bahri cache, west of Luxor, in 1881.
Likewise, Queen Hatshepsut, one of the most famous female figures in ancient Egyptian history, declared herself Queen of the country in the Eighteenth Dynasty.
The mummy of Queen Hatshepsut was found in 1903 in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor.
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