News: The Pharaohs' Parade

Splendour and Ceremony. On April 3rd, 2021, Egypt hosted a magnificent celebration. Royal mummies, including Kings and Queens, departed their old home and made for a new one. In future, these rulers will reside in the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization. Moving the royal mummies was a complex, grandiose event. I report on the parade, and the historical background of these famous mummies…

• Recordings of the parade on YouTube
• Musical performance by Amira Salim and Ahmed Mounib
• Cairo residents cheer the parade, by Rania Atef on Twitter
• Details of the performance by Heba Abd el Gawad on Twitter
• Photos at Ahram.
• Further details, links, images, and references at The History of Egypt Podcast website.
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Select Bibliography:

•  The Pharaohs’ Golden Parade:
• Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities YouTube stream (Arabic).
• Experience Egypt YouTube stream (Arabic and English).
• Reuters YouTube stream (Arabic and English).
• Performance by Amira Selim with “violin” music by Ahmed Mounib.
• Twitter thread by Heba abd el Gawad.
• The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities on Facebook.
• Maspero, “Les Momies Royales de Déir el-Bahari,” Mémoires publiés par les membres de la mission archéologique française du Caire, vol. 1 (1889): 511–790. Available online.
• Reeves and R. H. Wilkinson, The Complete Valley of the Kings (London, 1996).
• Romer, Valley of the Kings (London, 1981).
• Thompson, Wonderful Things, A History of Egyptology, II: The Golden Age: 1881–1914 (Cairo, 2015).
• Wilson, “Finding Pharaoh,” The Century: Illustrated Monthly Magazine 34 (May 1887): 3–10.
• Winlock, “The Tomb of Queen Meryetamun: I The Discovery.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin33, no. 2 (1975): 77–89.
• Web Archive: Theban Tomb 320 (TT320) also known as Deir el-Bahari 320 (DB320) “The Cachette of the Royal Mummies” Available online.
• KV35 (Amunhotep II tomb) at pl.
• Video: Cairo residents cheer the parade on Twitter.
• Video: A trip to the Royal Cache (TT320 / DB320) on YouTube.
• Mummies:
• The mummies found in TT320 / DB320 at Wikimedia and The Theban Royal Mummy Project.
• The mummies found in KV35 (Amunhotep II) at Wikimedia and SLU.

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