From time to time we hear the screams that resound in that hall, so we almost die in fear of that, as if we were inside a fictional American movie, where the soul came again in one of those mummies, all of this passes before our imagination in a few seconds, but we remember that they are just dead, nothing more than that.
Those screams always come from some women or children who come near one of those glass boxes on the outskirts of the hall. There we find a mummy imprisoned between the unidentified glass walls. No one dared to mention who that mummy was.
At first, no one knew anything about her except that she was the only mummy. Covered with a white cloth, where terror and terror spread in the hearts of those who saw it at first glance, it is a unique mummy in its kind that differs greatly from the rest of the mummies that were discovered until that moment, perhaps the reason for this is the signs of terror and terror that were accurately drawn on the divisions of that face and the mouth wide open As if it was the last cry in the life of the owner of that mummy two thousand years ago, contrary to all the generalities that inhabit the museum in deathly stillness.
Everyone who stands in front of it is delusional that he hears those cries that echo from the depths of history. It is the mummy of a young man between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five. Legends And curses always hover around her, as if there is a curse that haunts her to this day, so she screams between the walls of the museum to fill its echo all the time, but I wonder why all the mummies lie in silence except for those whose feelings of terror and fear are still depicted on the features of this mummified face?!... And who is that mummy, which some called the screaming mummy?!!... And what is the curse that befell this young man?!!
In 1886, this mummy was discovered by the scientist "Maspero" among a large group of royal mummies in one cache, but it drew attention strongly by what distinguished it from all other royal mummies that were crowding the place. The strange thing is that this mummy was lying in an unusually undistinguished wooden coffin, which indicates at first that it is not for anyone from the royal family and maybe for a person from the general public, but the question that came to the mind of the scientist Maspero at the time... Why does that coffin lie among all those Royal mummies?!!... And who brought them to be among all those distinguished royal mummies?!! Maspero realized at the time that he was facing a new mystery from the mysteries of the ancestors, and perhaps he was facing a great discovery.
Maspero hastened to try to decipher this mystery by examining that sarcophagus, and he did not find a name written on it, as was the custom of the Pharaohs, for the soul wandering in the other world to be guided to its body so that life would come into it again. But this will not happen with that mummy, as if the priests had deliberately done so so that the curse would hit the soul of this young man so that it would remain wandering forever and not inhabit her body again.
All of this aroused Maspero's curiosity and passion to examine that unknown mummy accurately, which filled everyone's hearts with terror from the first moment when they found the features of the face whose owner had died screaming from panic and pain, so he may have been embalmed while he was still alive as a punishment for his crime, but what is this crime that What did that young man do?!!
Maspero was sure that all phenomena indicate that this young
man was embalmed in a very strange way, so the skull was not opened to extract
the brain, and the viscera were not extracted from the abdomen, which is
subject to rot and were not placed in canopic vessels as usual, and the color
of the mummy tends to be dark red, so perhaps this indicates that this young
man was He was embalmed while he was alive. No mummy's face before with such
accuracy expressed the terror that accompanied the recent death tendencies. The
shrunken facial expressions of horror almost certainly indicate that the poor
man had died of suffocation because he was buried alive and his body was
wrapped in goatskin, even though the ancient Egyptian was looking at him. As an
inappropriate material, goats were also considered hostile to the sun god
"Ra", and it seemed as if he was forced to die by poison. It is also
possible that a court decision was issued to embalm him while he was in his
last dying moments before the soul left the body as a punishment.
At first, Maspero was confused as to
who this mummy belonged to, especially since there are no inscriptions
indicating its owner. Some scholars thought that this mummy might belong to a
Hittite prince who was captured and fulfilled inside Egypt, so the priests
decided to deal with his soul with some insult, according to the religious
beliefs that were prevalent at the time, but that theory did not find support
with anything tangible or proof of that, because the sarcophagus of that mummy
was found next to the sarcophagus of King Thutmose I and King Ramses II, and
these are great kings, and this confirms that he is from the royal family
without a doubt, but what did this young man do to be embalmed in this way The
hideous, which was not repeated in the Pharaonic history?!! This mystery
remained mysterious and no one was able to decipher its secrets, but when the
"Turin" papyrus was revealed, which was telling the details of the
conspiracy that was called the harem conspiracy and the attempt to assassinate
Ramesses III, the names and titles of the accused were mentioned except for the
title of the conspiring prince, where he was called the great criminal, and
this is considered a disgraceful matter. He detracts from his royal status, despite
the severity of his crime against his father. The papyrus showed the details of
the trial, which was considered the first coup against the legitimacy of the
king recorded in history, in which many participated, which gave him great
momentum and anger on the part of the priests who dealt with those who were
convicted with all cruelty. and packages. The Turin Papyrus was not only
concerned with the details of that crime, but it is one of the most famous
papyri that revealed to us many mysteries about the ancient Egyptian
civilization. The Italian traveler "Drovni" obtained it in the early
nineteenth century and it was said that he found it in Memphis, where it was
purchased, and the papyrus was in good condition. Good, except that it was
smashed from it and transferred to Italy and placed in the Turin Museum to
preserve it, and its importance is that it contains more than three hundred
names of the names of kings of the Pharaohs and the number of years of rule of
each of them.
But who is Ramses III, whose reign witnessed this crime, and which many of his leaders, priests, and even his son, the prince, tried to get rid of?!!
Ramses III is considered the most famous ruler of the Twentieth Dynasty, who ruled Egypt for the period 1183 BC. M. - 1152 BC M. Historians say that he is considered the last of the great kings in the modern state, and he carried out the same policy that Ramses II followed and one of his most important actions was the defeat of the Libyans in the western delta, and in the eighth year of his rule, the Sea Peoples occupied the north of the country, so Ramses III prepared a campaign and succeeded in defeating them in a naval battle, recorded on the paved walls called it city of Habu in Thebes, and this indicates his accomplishment in establishing a naval warfare force, as he built warships, placing them at the entrances of the Nile River, and this battle became the first major naval battle in the history of naval battles, and it is also said that the first strike And a sit-in that was recorded in history took place during his reign in the country of Nubia, and perhaps this strike had a hand in the conspirators, as we will come in the details of the plot.
The conspiring prince: Opinions differed about the identity of this prince. A pseudonym, but the archaeologist "Duke" believes that it is the real name, as the prince took it to be a nickname for him while sitting on the throne.
"Sili" is likely that the prince who
asked himself to kill the king is Ramesses, the owner of the first scene in the
procession of princes at the temple of the city of Habu in Deir el-Bahari, but The
archaeologist "Youyot" has opposed this idea because Prince Ramses,
son of Ramesses III from Queen "Maisa Taa Hob Gelat", but that Prince
Ramesses is the father of Ramesses VI, who was more entitled to the throne than
Ramesses IV. But how did that plot to assassinate King Ramses III happen, and
did the conspirators succeed in that?!! Harem conspiracy: "Ramses
III" had several sons from several wives, and it was followed that the
king would have one wife, the queen, and her children the right to ascend the
throne, in addition to several wives who would have the royal characteristic,
but he did not specify among the children of his major royal wives from He will
inherit the throne after him, or perhaps he had the intention to nominate his
son, Ramses IV, to take over the throne after him. Who orchestrated an actual
rebellion that almost ended with the assassination of "Ramses III".
It seems that such a plot could not find a more suitable hotbed for growth than
the harem.
Queen "Ti" or
"Titi", one of the wives of "Ramses III", became convinced
that the king would not make her son "Pentaure" crown prince, so she
resolved to kill him, and then declare her son king. Su Ra, and Pa Pak Amun.
The mission of the latter inside and outside the palace was to deliver the
messages of the harem to their mothers and sisters, and it was as follows:
"Arouse the people, incite the enemies to start hostilities against their
master." Some officers and palace guards, a priest, and six harem women
were also involved in the plot and were mediators between the queen and her
partners abroad. Before the conspirators struck, they worked to stir up the
divisions encamped in the country of "Nubia" to break the stick of
obedience against the king, and to launch a sudden attack on Egypt, and the
conspirators were able to win over the chief of the division to their side;
Because his sister (one of the women of the harem) had stopped him for minutes
in this plot. Not only did "Trey" and her aides gather supporters,
but they resorted to magic to seek help in bringing harm and affliction upon
the king and his aides, and the details of this plot have been the subject of
discussion by many researchers, and there is still no confirmation as to
whether this plot has succeeded in eliminating the king. Or did he escape from
it to witness the trial of the accused? And the king was described in the
documents of this conspiracy as "the great king", which is an epithet
given to the deceased king, which prompted some to say that the king had died
and that the trial of the conspirators was during the reign of his son,
"Ramses IV" after he calmed things down, especially in the countries
of The Nuba Queen Trey's plot was exposed, so she, her son, and the rest of the
conspirators were brought to trial before a court specially formed for this
case, and the king left its judges with absolute power to judge the accused.
The court ruled the execution of "Pentaure" and three others, and
they left them to kill themselves with their own hands, while others were
sentenced to imprisonment and amputation of organs. As for the fate of Queen
Tree, it is still unknown and no one knows anything about it, because the
documents did not record the penalty that the queen received, and it is worth
noting that the names of the conspirators were not their real names, but
pseudonyms that they had hidden behind, and there is no doubt. That this does
not help to reveal many of the facts of this conspiracy, and among the penalties
that were applied to the conspirators and accomplices among the employees,
corporal punishments, such as: severing the nose, and saluting the ears, as
indicated by the “Turin” judicial papyrus, as mentioned by each of the
legislations of the two kings. Horem Moheb" and "Ceti I"
But the question now is, was King Ramses III assassinated in that plot?!!
The mummy of Ramesses III was studied using a CT scan device by Dr. "Ashraf Selim" and Dr. "Sahar Selim", professors in radiology at Cairo University, and it was revealed and confirmed that King Ramesses III was killed with a sharp knife that caused a slaughter cut in the neck caused by the killer who surprised him from The back, the wound that reached the bones of the neck was recorded, and a careful CT scan confirmed the presence of the Eye of Horus amulet in the chest, as well as the number of four amulets representing the four sons of Horus. Radiologists confirm that the presence of the sacrificial wound preceded the embalming operations. Dr. Zahi Hawass explained the special arrangements that were taken when embalming the mummy and placing amulets and their places, which are related to protection, preservation, and securing the king's life in the other world, by saying that "embalmers were dealing with the mummy of a king who was treacherously killed." The papyrus indicates that King Ramses III did not die during the conspiracy, and Dr. "Zahi Hawass" says that it did not happen in ancient Egyptian history that it explicitly referred to the killing of the king, but it was said that his soul ascended to heaven, just as the king's death was referred to as a state of grief that afflicts him. Palace men. Hawass adds that the amulets that were placed in the body of Ramesses III were intended to heal the wounds of the conspiracy and to ensure a better life in the other world. The Egyptian team recently studied the DNA of the mummy of an unknown young man in the Egyptian Museum under the supervision of Dr. "Yahya Gad" and Dr. "Sumaya Ismail", and it was found inside the cache of mummies, where it was confirmed through the study that the mummy was linked to the son's relationship to the father or vice versa with the mummy of King Ramesses III.
And because King Ramesses III reached the age of 60
when he was killed. Therefore, the medical team for the study of royal mummies
announced that the DNA analysis of the blatant mummy proved that he belonged to
a first-degree relative of King Ramses III and that he was his son or, at the
weakest possibility, his brother, and the textual evidence says that the
criminal was young and was punished by killing himself. And the agreement of
the textual evidence with the archaeological evidence and the medical results,
it can be said that the blatant mummy is of Prince "Pentaure", the
son of King Ramesses III from his wife "Even", and he is the
perpetrator of the assassination of King Ramesses III around "1184-1153
BC." This is the most famous conspiracy in ancient history and the
evidence Of the identity of the screaming mummy
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