US Edition'We Are Writing a New Chapter': Egypt Unveils Grand Museum at Giza
The museum's 100,000 artefacts highlight Egypt's ancient heritage and aim to boost tourism, which saw 15 million visitors generating $12.5 billion in the first nine months of 2025.
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With presidents and royalty in attendance, Egypt unveils $1bn cultural 'GEM'
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 collections of antiquities.The...
"We are writing a new chapter on the history of the present and the future, on behalf of this former homeland," said President Al-Sisi at the opening of the museum, which cost about a billion euros.
"The idea for the museum dates back about thirty years," the Egyptian prime minister stressed.
The museum, which is the size of seventy football fields and was built next to the Giza pyramids, will display the entire contents of Tutankhamun's tomb for the first time.
President Sisi places final piece in GEM model, officially announcing its opening
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi placed the final piece bearing the name of Egypt into the miniature model of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), where each piece carried the name of a participating country in the opening, thereby announcing the official opening of the museum. The kings, presidents, and princes of the brotherly and friendly nations had earlier received a miniature model of the GEM, with each piece bearing the name of their respective…
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