With pharaoh-like fanfare, Egypt unveils a huge new museum dedicated to its ancient civilization

In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, Egypt on ...

Egypt’s vast $1bn museum to open in Cairo after two-decade build

The Grand Egyptian Museum finally opens in Cairo after many delays. This epic museum displays over 100,000 artefacts, including the colossal statue of Ramses II. After decades in the making, Egypt’s ...
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President Sisi officially opens grand museum, calls it 'new chapter in history'

Egypt at last opened the $1 billion Grand Egyptian Museum on Saturday night as performers dressed in white tunics embroidered ...

Egypt opens colossal new antiquities museum after two-decade wait

Prime ministers, presidents and royalty descended on Cairo on Saturday to attend the spectacle-laden inauguration of a sprawling new museum built near the Pyramids to house one of the world's richest ...
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Grand Egyptian Museum opening is 'new chapter' in nation's history, says El Sisi

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi addressed the evening event and hailed the museum as opening a "new chapter" for the nation. Egypt was "writing a new chapter in the story of this ancient nation's ...

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 ...