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

Egypt on Saturday is inaugurating the Grand Egyptian Museum, aiming to boost tourism and revitalize the economy ...

Decades in the making, Egypt's Grand Museum opens with a huge spectacle

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 ...

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

The building, as big as Vatican City with a collection larger than the Louvre, has been in the making for over 30 years and ...
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Egypt's $1 billion museum is finally open after two decades

As a little girl, Egypt always fascinated me. While a lot of my friends were gobbling up American Girl books (don’t worry, I ...
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How Were Egypt’s Great Pyramids Built?

For much of human history, stories about the construction of Egypt’s Great Pyramids were rooted in rumor rather than research. The Greek historian and geographer Herodotus, who famously counted ...

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 ...

How did a small Irish architectural firm come to desigh one of the world’s biggest museums?

Heneghan Peng beat stiff competition to design Cairo’s Grand Egyptian Museum partly by luck, they say, but mostly by ‘looking’ ...