Dr. Khaled El-Enany, Minister of Antiquities, held a meeting attended by Maj. Gen. Khaled Abdel Aal, Governor of Cairo, and representatives of the ministries of Defense, Interior and Tourism, the security agencies and the Supreme Council of Antiquities, to follow up on the procedures needed for transferring the royal mummies and coffins from their current display location at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir to their permanent display location at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat.
It is worth noting that the mummies and coffins to be transferred number 22 royal mummies and 17 royal coffins dating back to the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th dynasties, including 18 mummies of kings and 4 mummies of queens, among them the mummies of King Ramesses II, King Seqenenre, King Thutmose III, King Seti I, Queen Hatshepsut, Queen Meritamun, wife of King Amenhotep I, and Queen Ahmose-Nefertari, wife of King Ahmose.
During the meeting, the measures taken over the past period in preparation for the transfer were discussed, particularly those related to upgrading the roads, bridges and buildings along the route of the transfer from the Tahrir Museum to the Civilization Museum, and the shape and size of the vehicles that will carry out the transfer, in addition to the technical requirements that must be provided during the transfer.
For its part, the company organizing the production of the event presented many ideas and proposals aimed at staging this global event in a manner befitting the greatness of the ancestors and the deep-rooted and unique Egyptian civilization, in a majestic procession over the next few months.
