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Egypt has opened the Grand Egyptian Museum, a massive new archaeological museum. It showcases over 100,000 artefacts spanning ...

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Whether it's an ancient death mask found on an Egyptian sarcophagus or the selfie you have just cropped on your phone, we have been creating portraits for centuries. So why do we love them so much?

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Egypt will inaugurate its Grand Egyptian Museum at a lavish ceremony hosted by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, officially opening the $1.2bn project it hopes will help attract millions of tourists to ...