Peplum atmosphere and superstar decor at the Grande Halle de la Villette.
After Tutankhamun in 2019, it is Ramses II, on a world tour, who returns to his quarters in Paris.
At least the treasures of Egypt that are linked to it, directly or indirectly.
In 1976, a first exhibition (visited by 1 million people) organized at the Grand Palais by the first woman Egyptologist, "the high priestess of Ramses II" Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, had been made possible by the fact that it was France which treated the 3,200-year-old mummy.
Majestic temples
That year, it had arrived on a special flight at Le Bourget to go under the atomic rays of a Grenoble laboratory to put an end to the fungal infections that were eating away at it despite its air-conditioned Plexiglas case.
Stabilized, she had returned to the historical museum in Tahrir Square, Cairo.
Then, in 2021, it was transferred a few streets further, to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization which was then opening.
This place is where she...
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