Egypt held a five-kilometer procession of 22 ancient mummies to Cairo as they were moved from a museum where they had been for more than a century to the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization on Saturday night.
For the record: Organizers “deliberately” hid in working-class neighborhoods during the nationally televised event celebrating Egypt’s past, locals told the New York Times. Town planner Ahmed Zaazaa noted in New York: “The government says they are making reforms, but the vast majority of Cairo people living in working-class neighborhoods are excluded.”
The carriage carried by the mummy of Queen Ahmose-Nefertari, daughter of Pharaoh Seqenenre Tao II, during the parade. In all, mummies of 18 kings and four queens were transported during the voyage. Photo: Khaled Desouki / AFP via Getty ImagesA performer dressed in costumes designed to look like ancient Egyptian clothes in what has been called the golden parade of the pharaohs. Photo: Mahmoud Khaled / AFP via Getty ImagesA band during the mummy parade that leaves the Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Dictator Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, whom some call “a new pharaoh,” presided over the event, according to the Washington Post. Photo: Khaled Desouki / AFP via Getty ImagesThe wagons with the mummies advance through the roundabout of Tahrir Square. Photo: Mahmoud Khaled / AFP via Getty ImagesPerformers disguised as ancient Egyptians near the obelisk of Ramses II and the four recently discovered and restored sandstone sphinxes, taken from Sphinx Avenue in Luxor, in Tahrir Square. Photo: Mahmoud Khaled / AFP via Getty ImagesPerformers disguised as ancient Egyptians during the parade by the mummies. Photo: Mahmoud Khaled / AFP via Getty Images
