Egypt’s Grand Museum fully opens in gala ceremony after 2-decade build

Egypt on Saturday held a glittering ceremony attended by world leaders to mark the long-awaited full opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum.

With pharaoh-like fanfare, Egypt unveils a huge new museum dedicated to its ancient civilization

In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, Egypt on ...

Billion-dollar Grand Egyptian Museum to show Egypt's ancient civilisation

Officials have described the vast facility that houses over 100,000 artifacts from across seven millenia of history as a gift ...
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Grand Egyptian Museum inauguration writes “a new chapter of present and future history”: Sisi

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warmly welcomed the distinguished guests of Egypt and the Egyptian people, in a speech, which ...
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World’s fascination with ancient Egypt a 'heritage', Egyptologist says

The world’s fascination with ancient Egypt is a cultural "heritage" passed down from the Greeks and Romans, said Vincent Rondot, Egyptologist and former director of the Egyptian Department at the ...

King Tut's treasures haven't been all together in more than a century. Until now.

For the first time since the boy king's tomb was discovered in 1922 all the items will stored in one place, a museum director ...
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Egypt unveils a huge new museum dedicated to its ancient civilization; AP explains

Two decades in the making, the museum located near the Giza Pyramids and Sphinx showcases over 50,000 artifacts detailing ...

Long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum inaugurated with lavish ceremony

Egypt held the official inauguration of the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) near the Pyramids on Saturday, in a lavish ceremony with dancers and stars wearing colourful and golden pharaonic ...