Dr. Khaled El-Enany, Minister of Antiquities, will tomorrow open two temporary exhibitions at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, running for two months, on mummy caches and education in ancient Egypt, on the occasion of the celebration of 117 years since the museum's opening.
The first exhibition features a selection from 4 caches found previously, including two caches of royal mummies: the Deir el-Bahari cache, announced in 1881, and the cache in the tomb of King Amenhotep II in 1898, in which a number of royal mummies were found, including the mummies of Kings Ramesses I, II and III, Seti I and II, Seqenenre and others, in addition to the Bab el-Gasus cache, discovered in 1891, which contained dozens of mummies of priests and priestesses of the god Amun, as well as the Al-Assasif cache, which the Egyptian archaeological mission found last October in the Al-Assasif necropolis on the West Bank in Luxor.
The second exhibition highlights education in ancient Egypt by displaying a unique collection of pieces illustrating the form of the educational process in ancient Egypt and its various patterns, which contributed to shaping ancient Egyptian civilization in general, and its influence on other civilizations.
