Royal Mummy Room at the Egyptian Museum
Royal Mummy Room at Egyptian Museum Within the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, on the ground floor, you will find the mummified bodies of Egypt’s pharaohs. You will witness the mummies & their enchanting artifacts and sense the ancient glory of some of the biggest and most famous names in ancient Egyptian history, such as Ramses II, Tutankhamun, and various others.
The Egyptian Museum Mummy Room gives everyone a deeper insight into this ritual that lasted for more than millenniums and a way to be amazed at the ancient Egyptian knowledge and gift in the field of anatomy. New mummies from various periods of ancient Egyptian history are being discovered every single day.
Mummification in Ancient Egypt of Royal Mummy
The Mummification process focused on the religious aspect of Egypt. The concept of death is highly regarded in ancient Egypt and for the pharaohs, it’s viewed as a way to join the gods. The ancient Egyptians used the mummification process to prepare their dead for the afterlife. The process involved the use of special tools and techniques for several days.
so all the moisture was removed from the body leaving only a dried corpse special priests would treat and wrap the body with a linen cloth and put it within his or her grave with selected artifacts and a copy of a book of the dead which held many enchantments and protection spells. The mummies are hard to decay and can be viewed in the Egyptian Museum Mummy Room at any time.
Considered the crown jewel of the museum Royal Mummy
the Royal Mummies’ Hall is specially designed to display the mummies of the ancient Kings and Queens of Egypt. The design aims to give the visitor the feeling of strolling down the Valley of The Kings, where most of these mummies were originally resting. The hall includes 20 Royal mummies,18 Kings, and 2 Queens, from the 17th until the 20th dynasty. The most famous mummies are Hatshepsut (Maatkare), Thutmose III (Menkheperre), Seqenenre Taa II.
The discovery of the Royal Mummies of the New Kingdom was one of the greatest and most unexpected discoveries in the history of archaeology. On this particular occasion, the discovery did not involve the usual architectural and artistic masterpieces, but the sacred bodies of the builders of Egyptian civilization during the New Kingdom. These were the same builders that believed in life after death and devoted a large part of their wealth to defeating death.
In accordance with their beliefs, they preserved their bodies for the sake of their souls. They constructed their tombs within the cliff of the valley on the West Bank of the Nile, near their capital at Thebes, and equipped them with all the necessary objects for life after death. The tombs’ entrances were then blocked and the chambers were hidden in order to allow the mummies to be preserved for eternity and carry out their role as a home for the soul in the Afterlife.
.The Tomb of King Amenhotep II cache (Tomb No.35) Royal Mummy
Another important cache was to be discovered, seventeen years after the cache at Deir el-Bahari. In 1898, Victor Loret, a French Egyptologist, discovered the tomb of King Amenhotep II in the Valley of the Kings. It had another treasure of royal mummies. Amenhotep II, a King of the Eighteenth Dynasty, was found resting in his sarcophagus, and with him lay the famous bow. In another chamber, which had been selected by priests of the Twenty-First Dynasty as a hiding place, he found thirteen mummies including nine kings. Among them were Thutmose IV and Amenhotep III of the Eighteenth Dynasty, Merenptah, Seti II and Siptah of the Nineteenth Dynasty, and Ramesses IV, V, and VI of the Twentieth Dynasty.
