Merneptah moving from Cairo Museum to the Civilization Museum

I am the king Merenptah, the fourth pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. I ruled Egypt for almost ten years, in the 13^th Century BCE.  

I am the son of Ramesses the great from his wife Isetnofret I, the second great royal wife of Ramesses II. I am the brother of the prince Khaemwaset.

I married the queen Isetnofret II, she was my great royal wife. My son Sety-Merenptah became the king of Egypt after me as Seti II.

I was around seventy years old when I get the throne of Egypt. do you know that I am the first king of Egypt to be identified as "pharaoh", when the term previously used for the royal palace began to be used as the title for the king.

 like father like son, I was a great warrior. in the fifth year of my rule, I fought against the Libyans, who— with the assistance of the Sea Peoples— were threatening Egypt from the west. I led a victorious six-hour battle against a combined Libyan and Sea People force at the city of Perire, I account of this campaign against the Sea Peoples and Libu is described in prose on a wall beside the sixth pylon at Karnak (to see this text please go and visit the great complex of Karnak at my capital Thebes). You also can see my victories recorded on my Stele (in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo), people called it mistakenly as “the Israel Stele “Israel has been wiped out...its seed is no more”, by the way This is the first recognized ancient Egyptian record of the existence of Israel--"not as a country or city, but as a tribe" or people.

I prepared a royal tomb for myself in the Valley of the Kings (KV8) for some reasons my mummy has been moved to KV35, in 1898 my mummy was located along with eighteen other mummies in the mummy cache found in the tomb of Amenhotep II (KV35) by Victor Loret. My mummy was taken to Cairo and eventually unwrapped by Dr. G. Elliott Smith 1907. Then moved to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. and in 2020 my grandsons are preparing to move my mummy to the National Museum of Egypt Civilization in a great royal celebration. 

Come to visit my Royal Mummy in my new destination.

The Mummy of Merneptah