22 Mummies Are Moved in a Glittering Display in Cairo
But the made-for-TV spectacle also underlined the jarring divide between Egypt’s celebrated past and its uncertain present.
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22 Mummies Create Spectacle Moving Through Downtown Cairo
Riding on top of custom-made vehicles, the mummies were moved in a procession on Saturday from a museum where they had been kept for more than a century to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo.
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Riding on top of custom-made vehicles, the mummies were moved in a procession on Saturday from a museum where they had been kept for more than a century to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo.CreditCredit...Reuters TV