The Pharaoh’s Golden Parade
I know last year was crazy, but how did I miss this? Egypt built a new, more modern museum to help hold their expanding collection of antiquities. They had to move 22 mummified pharaohs and queens to their new home. Moving the fragile mummies in their special nitrogen-filled cases was a logistical nightmare. Moving so many high-profile terrorist targets in the Middle East was a security nightmare.
So what did they do? They glammed it to the heavens! They slathered a thick layer of classy pomp and circumstance over all those logistical and security needs and put on a spectacle that has to be seen to be believed.
I’m told that the morning after the parade, the music composer and many members of the crew got calls from the MCU and invitations to work on Moon Knight.
Now where can I find a cute commemorative toy car….
It’s funny. I assume terrorists would have targeted the mummies out of religious extremism, but in the end that threat inspired the Egyptians to show MORE reverence for the mummies than they otherwise might have done.
I do love how the answer to “how can we maintain security” was, “Get everyone in Egypt to watch this. Our enemies cannot hide from so many eyes at once.”
The full performance included simultaneous ballets at all the high-value archeological sites, AND the President of Egypt was on hand to greet the Pharaohs. They had ALL the high-risk bases covered.
