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Ramesses II was issued a passport in order to be able to travel to France in 1974.
1974年，為了能夠前往法國，拉美西斯二世被簽發了護照。
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I read about this today and honestly, it was both funny and mind-blowing to me.
我今天讀到了這件事，老實說，這對我來說既有趣又令人振奮。
The Egyptologists had fears that the mummy is deteriorating and wanted to send it to France for examining but apparently the Egyptian law didn't allow even deceased people to leave the country without any documentation. So this became the first passport of a mummy!
埃及學家擔心木乃伊的保存情況正在惡化，想把它送到法國檢查，但顯然埃及法律甚至不允許死者在沒有證件的情況下離開埃及。因此，這成了木乃伊的第一本護照！
Another reason is that a passport established a legal reference and guarantees the Egyptian right to demand the return of the mummy if France decided to hold on to it.
另一個原因是，護照為法律保障提供了參考。即如果法國想要留下木乃伊，那麼埃及有權要求歸還木乃伊。
The picture above is not from the actual passport but is an illustration of what it would have looked like.
上圖並非來自實際護照，而是說明它的樣子。
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