CAIRO, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- The Egyptian Museum in downtown Cairo will exhibit at its foyer three new artifacts every week, said the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities in a statement Sunday.
"The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir will exhibit on a weekly basis at its foyer three of its objects that were located in a hidden display area or recovered or stored in the basement," said the statement.
"The mummy of the unknown man E, a gilded cartonnage mask and a shroud are the three new objects for this week," said Elham Salah, Head of the museums sector at the Ministry of Antiquities.
Wrapped in a sheepskin with trimmed toe nails dyed in red, the unknown mummy possibly belongs to Prince Pentewere, a son of the 20th Dynasty King Rameses III.
As for the the gilded cartonnage mask with a shroud, they were both repatriated from the United States in 2017, according to Sabah Abdel-Razek, Director General of the Egyptian Museum.
Egypt has made several big archaeological discoveries over the past couple of years, the most recent of which was Saturday's discovery of a tomb of an Old Kingdom Pharaonic priestess adorned with intact, rare wall paintings on the Giza plateau near Cairo.
The tomb was built for a lady called Hetpet, a top official at the royal palace during the end of the Fifth Dynasty (2465-2323 BC) and a priestess to ancient cow diety Hathor, the goddess of fertility.
The recent discoveries also included Pharaonic tombs, statues, coffins, mummies and burial sites, remains of a Roman-style Hellenistic gymnasium, ruins of a funerary garden and a pyramid's burial chamber.
On Jan. 25, the ministry moved the 3,200-year-old giant colossus of ancient Egyptian King Ramses II from its storage place at the under-construction Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) to its atrium in preparation for the GEM soft opening later this year.
Located some 2 km north of the Great Pyramid of Giza, on an area of 491,000 square meters, the GEM will be the largest museum in the world that displays the artifacts of one civilization.
