In 1974, the Egyptologists of the Cairo Museum noticed that Ramses II’s mummy's condition was rapidly deteriorating. It was decided to fly his mummy to Paris for thorough research and medical examination. The former Pharaoh was issued an Egyptian passport, which listed his occupation as The K...
© Jimmy Smith - Mummy of Ramses II Ramses II Facts Ramses II has been identified with at least two figures in the Bible, including Shishaq and the pharaoh of Exodus. Some suggest Ramses II is the pharaoh that ruled during the time ofthe Biblical Exodus story. The story is about the ...
would live on, there was one testament to his power he could not have foreseen. After his death, nine subsequent pharaohs took his name upon ascending the throne, solidifying his stature as “the great” among Egypt’s rulers. (Read why the mummy of Ramses II was issued a modern passport...
Merneptah. He was first buried in the Valley of the Kings, but his body was moved to deter looters. In the 20thcentury, his mummy was taken to France
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Ramses I became the founding pharaoh of the 19th dynasty. The mystery of his mummy would lead to his being well known centuries later.
The mummy became part of the collection of a small museum in Niagara Falls, Canada, in the mid-19th century. When the museum closed in 1999, the collection was obtained by the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University in Georgia, which then verified the mummy’s identity as Ramses I....
This time, the Egyptian government wanted to be sure that they got their mummy back. So, they resorted to a bizarre plan. Shutterstock Advertisement 42. He Even Brought His Passport According to many reports, the Egyptian government actually issued the centuries-old Ramses II a passport for ...
and he took pride in his great family of well over 100 children. The best portrait of Ramses II is a fine statue of him as a young man, now in the Egyptian Museum of Turin; hismummy, preserved in theEgyptian MuseumatCairo, is that of a very old man with a long narrow face, promi...