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Inside Grand Egyptian Museum showcasing 50,000 artifacts designed by Irish architects

With a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, Egypt on Saturday inaugurated its long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum — which was designed by Irish firm Heneghan Peng Architects ...
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A Look Inside the Grand Egyptian Museum, Now Fully Open

After decades of anticipation, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is finally-and fully-open to the public, thanks to the debut of its long-awaited Tutankhamun galleries. The new exhibition, which gathers ...
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Inside the $1bn Grand Egyptian Museum as 50,000 artifacts go on display from Tutankhamun to Khufu’s solar boat

More than 30 years in the making, the colossal Grand Egyptian Museum will formally open its doors to the public in a lavish ceremony on Saturday. The $1bn project will be the planet’s largest museum ...
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With pharaoh-fanfare, Egypt unveils a huge new museum dedicated to its ancient civilization

Egypt on Saturday was inaugurating the long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum, the world’s largest museum dedicated to an ancient civilization — a megaproject also aimed at boosting the country’s tourism ...
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Museums should ask questions. But does Cairo’s new Grand Egyptian project provoke too many?

There are few cultural projects that have so perfectly captured both a nation’s ambition and its inertia as the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM). Two decades in the making, more than $1bn (€870m) spent and ...
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With pharaoh-like fanfare, Egypt unveils a huge new museum dedicated to its ancient civilization

CAIRO (AP) — In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, Egypt on Saturday inaugurated its long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum, a ...