1The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, which occupies a large building south of Cairo, was partially inaugurated in 2017 and opened its doors this Sunday after the great parade of royal mummies through the city.
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2Interior of one of the museum rooms.
The procession concluded inside the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, where the mummies were received with 21 cannon shots and by the country's president, Abdefatá Al Sisi.
The mummies will not be exhibited to the public until April 18.
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3The museum where the mummies will now rest, in southern Cairo, has hosted temporary exhibitions since 2017. In the picture, a visitor walks past the logo of the Hall of the Pharaohs.
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4A visitor looks at the statue of Akhenaten, the tenth pharaoh of the 18th dynasty.
The museum has completely opened its doors with the arrival of the mummies, which coincides with the inauguration of its two main rooms: the central one and the one reserved entirely for newly landed kings and queens.
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5The 135,000-square-meter museum will be the only one in Egypt to offer an overview of all of the country's historical periods.
In the image, a girl observes one of the exhibitors.
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6The center runs from the predynastic and ancient Egyptian phases to the contemporary, with the Greco-Roman, Coptic and Islamic phases.
In the image, visitors photograph one of the rooms.
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7The mummy room will be its jewel in the crown, and it is designed to create in the visitor the sensation of being walking through the Valley of the Kings.
In the image, a couple observes an exhibitor with pharaonic jewels.
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8Sarcophagus of Sennedjem, who was one of the most prestigious craftsmen at the end of the reign of Pharaoh Sethi I and at the beginning of that of Ramses II, exhibited in one of the rooms of the new enclosure.
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9Golden sarcophagus on display in the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, photographed this Sunday.
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The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization opens its doors
2021-04-04T17:43:40.195Z
In a spectacular parade, 22 mummies of kings and queens of Ancient Egypt left the Egyptian Museum this Saturday and toured Cairo aboard armored vehicles with pharaonic decoration, accompanied by horse guards and priests as in ancient times to the new enclosure. This act coincides with the inauguration of its two main rooms, the central one and the one reserved entirely for the newly landed kings and queens.
