The mummy of one of Egypt’s most famous female pharaohs, Hatshepsut, is set to be moved in a grand parade in Cairo on 3 April organised by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. On Saturday, 22 mummies will be moved from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square to a new home in Fustat’s National Museum [read more]
Shivakiar Ibrahim was born on 25 October 1876 as the daughter of Prince Ibrahim Fahmi Pasha, a member of the Muhammad Ali dynasty of Egypt, and Najivan Hanim. Her great-great-grandfather was Muhammad Ali Pasha, who is considered to be the founder of modern Egypt. Unfortunately, very little is known about her youth. On 30 May [read more]
With many of us stuck at home and unable to travel, the Egyptian Tourist Board has now virtually opened the 5,000 years old tomb of Queen Meresankh III. She was the daughter of Hetepheres II and Prince Kawab, who were brother and sister. She married the pharaoh Khafra, and they had four sons and at [read more]
The Kingdom of Egypt was established in 1922 under the Muhammad Ali dynasty following the Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence by the United Kingdom. The previous Sultan of Egypt became King Fuad I of Egypt. King Fuad was married twice. His first wife was Shivakiar Ibrahim; also his first cousin once removed. Their son Ismail [read more]
She received the name of the most beautiful princess of the Muhammad Ali dynasty in Egypt (her grandfather’s sister, Empress Fawzia, who was the first wife of Iran’s Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi), she was born far away from the country of her ancestors, she never saw her father or other relatives ruling, she has a [read more]
“The Younger Lady” is the title given to the mother of King Tut whose mummified body was discovered in 1898 in the Valley of the King’s in Egypt in the tomb KV35 by archaeologist, Victor Loret. The mummified corpse was found naked and damaged (due to tomb robbers) alongside two other bodies – one of [read more]
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