Egyptian Museum Shows Statue of King Tutankhamun’s Breastfeeding Mother on International Women’s Day
On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, which falls on March 8 of each year and Mother’s Day which Egypt celebrates on March 21 each year, the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, downtown Cairo, chose a statue of Maya, the nursing mother of King Tutankhamun, to be the March piece, which is displayed in the main entrance hall of the museum.
The museum’s director general, Sabah Abdel-Razek, said that this statue was made of limestone, and was preserved in the museum’s warehouse.
The statue depicts the nursing mother Maya carrying King Tutankhamun on her legs.