A year ago from now, the world’s attention turned towards Egypt, on April 3, 2021, to follow the golden journey, so called the majestic royal procession, which included 22 kings and queens, which came out in a scene consistent with the greatness and nobility of the ancient Egyptian civilization, and to highlight the ongoing efforts of the state to develop and modernize Cairo and other The ancient cities, who is the first king to leave the Egyptian Museum and the last king to leave the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir to the place of their permanent display at the Museum of Civilization through the procession of royal mummies?
According to the sequence of historical events, the first person to leave the Egyptian Museum of Civilization and the leader of the royal procession is King Seqenen Ra Taa, one of the kings of the seventeenth dynasty. He was the ruler of Thebes (now Luxor) who started the war of liberation against the Hyksos and completed the war after him by his two sons Kamose and Ahmose I.
The rulers of Egypt in the seventeenth dynasty under the leadership of the southern king Seqenen Ra Taa II began to resist the occupation of the Hyksos, especially since there was nothing left of the independent land of Egypt except a narrow strip in Upper Egypt that was enjoying a kind of autonomy under the control of the rulers of the ancient city of Thebes, and it extended from Al-Qusiya In Assiut Governorate (the last border of the Hyksos in the south) and to the Elephantine region in Aswan, the good rulers began to feel strong, and began to ally themselves with their neighbors from the princes of Egypt in the north and south, and wrote their names in cartouches preceded by royal titles to defy the Hyksos and to express their Egyptian selves in the face of the brutal occupier .
One of the Egyptian papyri shows us the beginning of the conflict and friction between the rulers of Thebes and the Hyksos, a story that tends to the mythical atmosphere and explains the story of the clash between the ruler of Thebes, Seqenen Ra Taa II, and the Hyksos king Abebe or Apophis in the first battles and wars to liberate Egypt from the plight of the abhorrent Hyksos occupation.
He adds the book "Warrior Pharaohs: Diplomats and Military" by Dr. Hussein Abdel Basir. This story shows the Hyksos king Apophis trying to find a justification to clash with the ruler of Thebes, Seqenen Ra. We see him sending him a strange message in which he complains about the sounds of hippos swimming in the sacred lake. At the temple of the god Amun in the area of Thebes, which disturbs the Hyksos king and prevents him from sleeping in his distant capital, Avaris, which is located in the Nile Delta and hundreds of kilometers away from Thebes! This is a symbolic reference to the Hyksos’ knowledge of the preparations made by the ruler of Thebes to expel the Hyksos. The heroic king Seqenen Ra responded to him in a clever response showing his desire for peace. He also honored the delegation of the Hyksos delegation after the men of his court advised him to do so.
Recently, new and important details of King Seqenen Ra were announced, with a CT scan that was conducted by Dr. Zahi Hawass, an archaeologist, and Dr. Sahar Selim, professor of radiology at the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, where modern medical technology helped tell the story of a king in ancient Egypt who died in order to reunify Egypt. In the sixteenth century BC, in the research published today, February 17, in the journal Frontiers in Medicine.
Dr. Sahar Selim, Professor of Radiology at the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, said that the CT scan of the mummy of King Seqenen Ra revealed that he had been hit in the head and face and was fatally wounded, adding that the history books did not mention the circumstances and causes of King Seqenen Ra’s death, and that the regular rays conducted on the mummy revealed About the king's injury to the head only, pointing to the study of the Hyksos weapons, which are in the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, and comparing them with the effects of wounds on the face of King Seqenen Ra.
She pointed out that the study revealed a great similarity between the Hyksos' weapons and the King's wounds, which reveals his heroic role in confronting the Hyksos during their occupation of Egypt.
The mummy of King Seqenen Ra Taa was found inside a huge cedar-wood coffin in the cache of Deir el-Bahari, west of Luxor in 1881 AD, and studies indicate that the king died in his forties, and that the king’s skull was broken, which led to severe injuries to his head during the battles against the Hyksos .
As for the last king to leave the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir at that time, according to the history sequence of the most recent ancient Egyptian history, the last king to leave the Egyptian Museum and therefore the last to arrive at the place of its permanent display in the National Museum of Ancient Egyptian Civilization is King Ramses IX.
He is the grandson of King Ramses III, the eighth king of the Twentieth Dynasty, and it is estimated that King Ramses IX ruled for about eighteen years, and his reign was characterized by a kind of stability.
His main contributions were in the Temple of the Sun in Heliopolis, and he also decorated the northern wall of the seventh edifice of the Temple of Amun-Re at Karnak. Most of his activities focused on Lower Egypt, where he ruled from the capital of “Bar Ramses” in the Delta, which allowed the priests of Amun to extend their control in Upper Egypt.
The original burial place of Ramses IX was his tomb KV 6, but his mummy was moved several times and was found in the Deir el-Bahari cache west of Luxor in 1881 AD.
It is noteworthy that the number of mummies that will be transferred is 22 royal mummies, dating back to the 17, 18, 19 and 20 families, including 18 mummies of kings and 4 mummies of queens, they are "King Ramses II, Ramses III, Ramses IV, Ramses V, Ramses VI". Ramses IX, Thutmose II, Thutmose I, Thutmose III, Thutmose IV, Seqenenre, Hatshepsut, Amenhotep I, Amenhotep II, Amenhotep III, Ahmose Nefertari, Meret Amun, Siptah, Merneptah, Queen Tiye, Seti I, Seti II.
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