Egypt Unveils $1 Billion Grand Museum
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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 megaproject aiming to give the country’s millennia-old heritage a rich,
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.
By Hatem Maher CAIRO (Reuters) -Egyptian officials are hoping the inauguration of a vast new museum on Saturday will accelerate the revival of a tourism industry hampered for more than a decade by internal upheaval,
Egypt is preparing to inaugurate its new Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in an official ceremony after multiple delays. Construction began in 2005, and the museum entered a partial trial opening phase in 2024. The official inauguration, originally scheduled for July 3, 2025, was postponed to the last quarter of the year due to regional conflicts.