Egypt Opens Colossal New Antiquities Museum
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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.
The hotly anticipated new museum boasts some of the greatest treasures of antiquity. But there are some notable exceptions.
Many of the 50,000 artifacts in the GEM were moved from the Egyptian Museum, a packed, century-old building in downtown Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Others were recently unearthed from ancient cemeteries, including the Saqqara necropolis, another complex of pyramids and tombs about 14 miles (22 kilometers) south of the museum.
Explore the Grand Egyptian Museum: A new home for 7,000 years of history and Tutankhamun’s treasures
Head to the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo, housing Tutankhamun’s treasures and Ramses the Great’s obelisk, near the Pyramids of Giza
By Hatem Maher 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,
A MAJOR new museum is opening and it will be the largest archaeology museum in the world. The Grand Egyptian Museum based in the winter sun spot of Cairo, will officially open to the public this