The Golden Journey

Dr. Zahi Hawass

Tomorrow we will watch an archeological and cultural event that impress the whole world as a dazzling convoy includes the mummies of twenty-two kings and queens on April 3 evening.

The unique event will be live streamed by almost TV channels and press all over the world.

The world may forget the crisis of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) and sit to watch great kings and queens of ancient Egypt.

Intensified security measurements will be taken to protect the mummies as professional troopers from army and police to escort and salute the mummies when they were conveyed throughout the streets of Cairo until they reach the Museum of Civilization that Egypt built at Ain El-Serah in Fustat District which is considered as the prettiest spot in Cairo that looks over churches and mosques.

Every household around the world awaits for this prestigious convoy.

To be assured, strict measurements have been taken to secure the convoy.

Every mummy was stored in a capsule filled with nitrogen to keep heat and humidity inside the capsule.

This was put inside a box.

The tour of the Royal mummies takes 40 minutes and will be aired directly by most world satellite channel.

The Egyptian restorers will take the mummies out of the capsules then put them inside show windows that were also filled with nitrogen gas.

These mummies were found in a cache in Luxor which is known as the Cache of Deir el-Bahari ( the Monastery of the North"), Luxor.

Well-known Abdul Rassoul family members found this cache as they knew very well secrets of Valley of the Kings.

Ten mummies of this cache will be on show.

Ten other mummies were found in other cache inside King Amenhotep II in Valley of the Kings in addition to the mummy of Queen Hatshepsut, which I discovered by using CT scan and DNA technique.

The mummy of the queen was found inside the tomb of her nursing mother in Valley of the Kings.

By examining the mummy of the queen, we knew that she died from a heart attack.

Despite the convoy of the Royal Mummies includes 22 one, the Museum of Civilization shows only 20 mummies because the available furnished show windows are only twenty.

Every mummy will be on show beside the coffin where it was found in.

But there are 17 coffins because thieves of the tombs destroyed the other coffins.

When we watch the coffin of the mummy of the great King Thutmose III, we know how thieves ransacked it.

Beside every mummy, the show window contains a statue and other artefacts of either a king or a queen, CT scan sheets and DNA analysis that unveil the cause of death and disease inflated the queens or the kings who govern Egypt in the golden age when she leads in the ancient world.

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi surprises the world by receiving the Royal Mummies to prove to the whole world that Egypt celebrates her history as her antiquities do not belong to her only but to the entire world.

Translated by Ahmed Moamar