Parade of The Royal Mummies
The royal mummies parade is an international event held on Saturday, April 3, 2021, involving the departure of 22 royal mummies from the Egyptian Museum located in Tahrir Square .
The mummies date back to the dynastic eras from Seventeen to twenty, among which are the mummies of Kings Ramses II, saqnen-Ra, Thutmose III, Seti I, Ramses IX, Ramses VI, Ramses V, Thutmose III, Queen Hatshepsut, Queen Mertamun, wife of King Amenhotep I, and Queen Ahmose Nefertari, wife of King Ahmose I.
The concert was shown in full on the YouTube channel of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
The Itinerary of The Royal Mummies Parade
The procession started moving from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, then passed in front of the obelisk of King Ramses II in Tahrir Square, then headed to Simon Bolivar Square in Garden City and then to the Nile Corniche until it reached Qasr Al-Aini, from there to the wall of the eye stream, then to the Nile gauge.
Mummies participating in the parade
The number of mummies participating in the procession amounted to 22 Royal pharaonic mummies, eighteen mummies of kings, and four mummies of Queens, and the carriages carrying them moved in the order of the reign of the Kings as follows:
King saqnun Ra TAA
Queen Ahmose-Nefertari
King Amenhotep I
Queen meritamun
King Thutmose I
King Thutmose II
King Hatshepsut
King Thutmose III
King Amenhotep II
King Thutmose IV
King Amenhotep III
Queen t
King Seti I
King Ramses II
King Merneptah
King Seti II
King sebtah
King Ramses III
King Ramses IV
King Ramses V
King Ramses VI
King Ramses IX
Event highlights
The parade began at eight in the evening (six in the evening GMT) with musical and light shows in the areas of the parade passage. The motorcade provided motorcycles, as it began the journey of about seven kilometers between the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in the city of Fustat. The mummies walked according to the chronological order of the reigns of kings and queens as above, and King saqnun-RA of the seventeenth Egyptian dynasty led the procession of kings.
The mummies were carried on carts decorated with Pharaonic drawings and inscriptions and equipped with an atmosphere containing nitrogen to make the mummies in suitable conditions for transportation, and each cart bears the name of the king in Arabic, English, and Egyptian hieroglyphs. Amid tight security, the procession left a century-old museum, accompanied by extras in pharaonic costume, horse-drawn carriages (pharaonic war wheels), under the beating of drums of a brass band, and against the background of symphonic music. The Pharaonic chariots arrived at the new museum around half past eight in the evening, and the artillery fired twenty-one shots and was received by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The procession took about 40 minutes, during which it covered seven kilometers.
The concert was interspersed with musical performances by Egyptian artists. "The whole world will watch this royal procession, it will be forty important minutes in the life of the city of Cairo,"Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass told AFP. Before the show started, the celebrations were opened with a song by Egyptian singer Mohamed Mounir, and Egyptian actors including Ahmed Helmy, Mona Zaki, and Tunisian Hind Sabri read texts about Egyptian civilization. Earlier in the evening, President Sisi visited the National Museum of Egyptian civilization accompanied by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay, to view some of the collections. Preparations for the parade took a total of four months.
Speech of the President of the Republic
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi wrote on Twitter on this occasion: "With pride and pride, I look forward to receiving the Kings and Queens of Egypt after their trip from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir to the National Museum of Egyptian civilization. This majestic spectacle is a new proof of the greatness of these People, The Guardians of this unique civilization that stretches deep into history.»
He added: "I invite all Egyptians, Egyptians, and the whole world to follow this unique event, inspired by the spirit of great ancestors, who preserved the homeland and created a civilization that all mankind is proud of, to continue the path that we started. The path of construction and humanity.»
Objective
The event aims to promote tourism, culture, and security, healing the wounds of the Egyptian revolution of 2011. Salima Ikram, professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, who specializes in mummification, tells AFP: "The new building that provided the mummies aims to display them in better conditions the mummies will be displayed in more modern boxes for better temperature and humidity control compared to the old museum.». During an official visit to Egypt, UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay, former French minister of Culture, said: "seeing the procession of these mummies entering the new National Museum of Egyptian civilization, and knowing that they are now more accessible to the world, is the culmination of tireless efforts to preserve and display them better."There are strong ties between UNESCO and Egypt, and they go back in time, in particular, to the rescue of antiquities in Nubia, including the temple of Abu Simbel "1963-1968", which was behind the drafting of the Unesco convention for the protection of the World Heritage concluded in 1972.».
The mummies will make an individual presentation next to their coffins, simulating the underground tombs of Kings, accompanied by biographies, and radiographs of some of them. "The mummies will be presented for the first time in a beautiful way, for educational purposes and not for the sake of excitement," says Egyptian Egyptologist Zahi Hawass, according to him, "the frightening form of mummies was a reason in the past for few visits, and he says "I will never forget when I took (Princess) Margaret, the sister of Queen Elizabeth II, to the museum: she closed her eyes and ran away.». Mummies will not be ready for viewing before April 18th. Mummies have not left Tahrir Square since the beginning of the twentieth century.
Statements about the event
A source at the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities promised before the event that "it will be like the time of the Pharaohs.». Egyptologist Salima Ikram stated,"Through an event like this with its lights and pomp, the mummies will receive the tribute they deserve". Some Egyptian netizens and media described the March as a historic show.
Senior visitors
The ceremony was attended by the secretary general of the World Tourism Organization Zurab polulikashvili, the president of UNESCO Audrey Azoulay, the Greek minister of Tourism Haris Theocharis, the Saudi minister of Tourism Ahmed Al-Khatib, twenty ambassadors the ambassadors of Japan, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Czech, Hungary, Belgium, Romania, France, the European Union, and the United States.
The history of mummies
The 22 mummies participating in the procession were discovered in two crypts. The first was discovered in 1881 in the maritime monastery on the West Bank in Luxor in the cemetery of 320 Tiba. The second was in 1889 in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor in the Crypt of the Tomb of King Amenhotep II, Tomb 35.
Logo
The design and colors are inspired by the ancient Egyptian civilization. It was designed by the Egyptian-Armenian designer Karim Mokhtajian, the designer of the chemical design company
Television broadcasting
More than 400 TV channels from different parts of the world broadcast the parade of royal mummies live. The event photography department was handled by the director of photography Ahmed Al-Mursi, while the decor engineer Mohammed Attia was responsible for setting up the festive decorations
Artists
The event was attended by artists such as Yusra, Mona Zaki, hind Sabri, Amina Khalil, Hussein Fahmy, Ahmed Helmy, Asser Yassin, Khaled Nabawi, Mohammed Mounir, Ahmed Ezz, Ahmed SAQA, Kareem Abdul Aziz, Nesma Mahjoub and Amira Salim.
Participants
The royal mummies transported twenty-two cars belonging to the commands of the parachute forces of the Ministry of Defense for each Mummy car, sixty motorcycles for honorifics from the ministries of Defense and Interior, one hundred and fifty horses for honorifics, twenty-two chariots of pharaonic-style war wheels made by the state Ministry of war production pulled by forty-four horses for each wheel two horses, three hundred and thirty students from the Faculty of physical education military music of the Ministry of Defense
The music of the concert was prepared and composed by the musician Hisham Nazih, the work was conducted by Maestro Nader Abbasi, and the musical notation of the musical work was performed by Ahmed Al-Moji, the lyrics of the anthem was discovered by the musician Raymond Malak, conductor of the Philharmonic Union choir, which is an anthology of hymns to the majesty of the goddess Isis in the temple of Deir el-shalwit in Luxor, and the linguistic and historical review was performed by Professor Dr. Maysara Abdullah Hussein, professor at the Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University, and sung by the choir consisting of 90 Singer and played by a hundred of the most skilled orchestra players the Philharmonic Union is led by Maestro Nader Abbasi.
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