Egypt held a five-mile procession of 22 ancient mummies in Cairo, as they were transferred from a museum where they had been for more than a century to the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization on Saturday night.
For registration: Organizers “deliberately” hid from working-class neighborhoods during the event broadcast on national television that celebrates Egypt’s past, locals told the New York Times. Urban planner Ahmed Zaazaa remarked to the NYT: “The government says it is reforming, but the vast majority of people in Cairo who live in working-class neighborhoods are excluded”
The carriage carrying the mummy of Queen Ahmose-Nefertari, daughter of Pharaoh Seqenenre Tao II, during the parade. In all, the mummies of 18 kings and four queens were carried during the trip. Photo: Khaled Desouki / AFP via Getty ImagesAn artist dressed in a costume designed to look like ancient Egyptian clothing in what has been dubbed the Golden Parade of the Pharaohs. Photo: Mahmoud Khaled / AFP via Getty ImagesA martial band during the parade of mummies leaving the Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Dictator Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, whom some call “a new pharaoh”, chaired the event, according to the Washington Post. Photo: Khaled Desouki / AFP via Getty ImagesThe carriages with the mummies advance along the roundabout in Tahrir Square. Photo: Mahmoud Khaled / AFP via Getty ImagesArtists dressed as Egyptians near the Ramses II Obelisk and the four ancient sandstone sphinxes recently revealed and restored, taken from the Avenue of the Sphinxes in Luxor, in Tahrir Square. Photo: Mahmoud Khaled / AFP via Getty ImagesArtists dressed as ancient Egyptians during the parade for mummies. Photo: Mahmoud Khaled / AFP via Getty Images
