Cairo’s mummies get a new home. And a grand procession on the way.

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22 mummies were moved from Cairo's old museum to a new one three miles away.



Cairo’s mummies get a new home. And a grand procession on the way.

[COLOR=var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)]It was a parade unlike any other this city has seen.

[/COLOR][COLOR=var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)]A procession of 22 ancient Egyptian royal mummies streamed Saturday from downtown Cairo, where revolutionaries rose up to topple autocrat Hosni Mubarak a decade ago, to a new museum three miles away that represents Egypt’s future as much as its past.



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[COLOR=var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)]At 8 p.m., the mummies — 18 kings and four queens — left the famed ochre-hued Egyptian Museum near Tahrir Square, where they had rested for decades. They were each atop specially decorated gold-and-blue-hued vehicles resembling boats. Or perhaps the symbol of a winged sun, an ornament worn by Egypt’s ancient rulers and seen as providing protection. Each of the 22 vehicles was emblazoned with the name of the royal mummy it carried.



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[COLOR=var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)]The multimillion-dollar affair — called the Pharaohs’ Golden Parade — had been promoted for months. Egyptian authorities are seeking to attract tourists, a key source of foreign currency, and alter the course of an economy [/COLOR]battered by the coronavirus pandemic, [COLOR=var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)]Islamist attacks and political chaos in past years.


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Most Egyptians saw the parade on television, as the entire route and surrounding bridges and roads were closed for security. With parts of the program prerecorded, viewers were treated to an orchestra and singer playing patriotic music and videos extolling many of the country’s famous temples, churches and mosques.

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The 20 on display, from oldest to youngest, are: Seqenenre Taa II, Ahmose Nefertari, Amenhotep I, Thutmose I, Thutmose II, Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, Amenhotep II, Thutmose IV, Amenhotep III, Seti I, Ramses II, Merenptah, Seti II, Siptah, Ramses III, Ramses IV, Ramses V, Ramses VI and Ramses IX.

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