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Egypt unveils the world's largest museum dedicated to its ancient civilization

Egypt was inaugurating the long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum on Saturday, the world’s largest museum dedicated to its ancient civilization — a megaproject also aimed at boosting the country’s tourism industry and troubled economy.

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Egypt set to open huge, $1 billion landmark museum dedicated to its past

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The Grand Egyptian Museum showcasing 50,000 artifacts is finally opening

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Egypt unveils the world's largest museum dedicated to a single civilization

Egypt is inaugurating on Saturday the Grand Egyptian Museum, two decades in the making, with the aim of drawing more visitors to revitalize the country's tourist industry.

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Egypt's Grand Museum opens, displaying Tutankhamun tomb in full for first time

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More than $1 billion and two decades later, the Grand Egyptian Museum is — finally — ready to share its treasures

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Egypt hopes vast new museum by the Pyramids will accelerate tourism revival

"The museum accommodates a huge collection that was previously kept in storage due to lack of display space," she said.

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Great expectations: The world's biggest museum dedicated to Ancient Egypt opens its doors

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Inside the $1bn Grand Egyptian Museum as 50,000 artifacts go on display from Tutankhamun to Khufu’s solar boat

World’s largest museum devoted to ancient Egypt to open by Giza pyramids

After years of delays, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum – set to be the world’s largest devoted to ancient Egypt – will finally open its doors near the Giza pyramids.

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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 told NBC News.

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Did Ancient Egyptians Build the Great Pyramid With a Hidden Pulley System?

Thousands of years and conspiracies have all led to this: the Great Pyramid of Giza may have been built using the basic pulley technology.

Boom of the pharaohs

The Grand Egyptian Museum, decades in the making, hopes to show off a nation’s history on the biggest scale possible

Egypt inaugurates world’s largest museum celebrating its ancient civilisation

Egypt has inaugurated the Grand Egyptian Museum, the world’s largest institution dedicated to ancient Egypt, after two decades of construction

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GEM: Where to Watch, When, Who Will Be Attending

Tomorrow marks a historic milestone as the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), the world’s largest archaeological museum dedicated to a single civilization, officially opens its doors to the publ

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Did ancient Egyptians really booby-trap the pyramids?

The ancient Egyptians took a number of measures to safeguard the pyramids. But did they ever resort to booby traps? The answer, Egyptologists told Live Science, is an emphatic no. "No, they didn't use booby traps in the pyramids, but they could make it ...