Grand Egyptian Museum opens
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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 told NBC News.
After innumerable interruptions, delays and setbacks, the world’s largest museum dedicated to a single civilization comes to life.
CAIRO - The official opening of Egypt's Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is expected to boost the country's tourism industry and inject fresh momentum into its economy, tourism experts said, as the long-awaited landmark adds a new attraction to Egypt's cultural landscape.
CAIRO (Reuters) -Egyptian officials are hoping the inauguration of a vast new museum on Saturday will accelerate the revival of a tourism industry hampered for more than a decade by internal upheaval,