World News for Students of English

09-04-2021 07:00

Organizers in Cairo, Egypt, hold a special ceremony. They move 22 mummies of kings and queens to a new museum.

The mummies of Queen Hatshepsut and King Ramses II are among the mummies. Ramses II is one of the greatest kings in Ancient Egypt. He is a king for 67 years.

When kings and queens die in Ancient Egypt, people make mummies from them. They take out their body parts and put a special material around them. They believe that people can live forever as mummies.

Special vehicles take the mummies to the new place. They look like old boats. These boats take dead kings and queens to their tombs in the past. It is 3,000 years ago.

Officials hold the ceremony because they want to make tourists come to Egypt. They want to show the best of Egypt.

Difficult words: ceremony (a special event for people that celebrates something important), mummy (a dead body which people change so it lasts longer, and they hope that the dead person will live forever), tomb (a large stone building where dead kings and queens stay).

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