The mummy of Ramesse I backs in Egypt

It left the country in 1871 to be displayed in Canada, it was sold to the museum in Atlanta in 1999. Ramses’s I mummy returns to Egypt after 130 years. The mortal remains of the first king of the dynasty will be displayed in the museum in Cairo and then moved to the temple in Luxor. Wrapped in the Egyptian flag, protected by a case of solid wood, Ramses’s I mummy, the first king of a dynasty that governed the Country for decades, has returned to Cairo. Ramses’s I mummy, the only King in Egypt whose mortal remains are abroad, so returns to his homeland after around 130 years of exile and will go to rest in the Temple in Luxor, near other kings who governed Egypt in ancientness. Ramses’s I mummy, had left Egypt in 1871 to be displayed in Canada and was sold for two million dollars to the museum in Atlanta. The museum in the capital in Georgia decided that it would freely return the pharaoh’s mortal remains to Egypt, but only after that the Egyptologists had studied them. In fact, the doubt remains that the ones bought weren’t really the mortal remains of the first king of the Ramses dynasty. An accurate study, several years long, at the end of which the Egyptologists declared that the one in Atlanta is very probably Ramses’s I mummy. The pharaoh, known mostly because he ordered to build the famous columns in the temple in Karnak in Luxor and a sumptuous tomb in the Vally of the Kings, he reigned for a fey years, but he began the dynasty that made Egypt great.