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Alt News 17th April 2021 / 6:56 pm Photos from Egypt, Indonesia shared with #BanRamzanGatherings in India Over 2,000 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Haridwar where more than 35 lakh pilgrims have gathered for the Kumbh Mela. The BJP-led central government has received immense backlash for holding Kumbh Mela this year amid a growing pandemic. Supporters of the party, who had earlier shared a misleading video to claim there are no crowds in Haridwar, have now begun trending the hashtag #BanRamzanGatherings. Two pictures of mass namaz in public have widely been shared since Ramzan be...

An orchestra ushers pharaohs through Cairo — and Egypt to world stage Tala Jarjour April 09, 2021 22:34 A performer rides a two-horse chariot at the start of the parade of 22 ancient Egyptian royal mummies. (AFP) Short Url https://arab.news/49kfp Few city dwellers would not remember at least one instance in which they had to wait for a presidential, royal or other dignitary motorcade to pass before normal traffic resumed. In the Middle East, where security is typically a high priority, such occurrences are rarely announced in advance. Still, they hardly go unnoticed, especially when they in...

Basking in well-deserved and glorious vibes Al Ahram Weekly and Ahram Online The Golden Parade of the mummies of ancient Egypt's kings and queens to their new resting place in the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation was a vote of confident in Egypt today, writes Azza Radwan Sedky   After a week of apparently endless disasters, and what seemed as though the curse of the pharaohs had finally set in, a euphoric stretch followed, a few days that could not have compensated Egyptians for their earlier endurance in any better way.  For six long days, a crisis of global ramifications hovered o...

22 Ancient Pharaohs Have Been Carried Across Cairo in an Epic 'Golden Parade' EMMANUEL PARISSE, AFP 5 APRIL 2021 A procession of floats carried the mummified remains of 22 pharaohs, including Egypt's most powerful ancient queen, through Cairo Saturday evening, in an eye-catching parade to a new resting place.   Under hefty security, the mummies were driven on floats seven kilometers (four miles) across the capital from the iconic Egyptian Museum to the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation. Dubbed the "Pharaohs' Golden Parade", the 18 kings and four queens travelled in order, oldes...

Published on: Monday, April 05, 2021 By: AFP Text Size: The mummified remains of Pharaoh Seqenenre Taa II, ‘the Brave’, who reigned over southern Egypt some 1,600 years before Christ, are the oldest of the 22 mummies being paraded through the streets of Cairo. CAIRO: A procession of floats carried the mummified remains of 22 pharaohs, including Egypt’s most powerful ancient queen, through Cairo Saturday evening, in an eye-catching parade to a new resting place. Under hefty security, the mummies were driven on floats seven kilometres (four miles) across the capital from the iconic Egypt...