Egypt holds spectacular parade transporting 22 mummies of its most famous pharaohs to museum
Advertisement Egypt on Saturday held a spectacular parade to transport 22 mummies of its most famous pharaohs from central Cairo to their new resting place at a museum. The ceremony snaked along the Nile corniche from the Egyptian Museum overlooking Tahrir Square to the newly opened National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat, Cairo, where Egypts first Islamic capital was located. The mummies - 18 pharaohs and four other royals - were transported in climate-controlled cases loaded onto ...
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