Egypt opens world's largest museum of its ancient civilization

World leaders will attend the grand opening of the $1-billion facility near the Giza Pyramids on the edge of Cairo. | ITV ...

Egyptian president Sisi to inaugurate new mega-museum

Egypt will inaugurate its Grand Egyptian Museum at a lavish ceremony hosted by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, officially opening the $1.2bn project it hopes will help attract millions of tourists to ...

Egypt's Grand Museum opens, displaying Tutankhamun tomb in full for first time

The launch of the billion-dollar site sees fresh calls for the return of antiquities held in museums overseas.
Greek Reporter

Egyptian Boy Who Revealed Tutankhamun’s Tomb Finally Honored a Century Later

Grand Egyptian Museum honors the 12-year-old Egyptian boy who helped reveal Tutankhamun’s tomb, says his son, Nubi Abdel-Rasoul.

Egypt opens Grand Egyptian Museum, centerpiece of its tourism industry

The colossal project dates back to the 1990s. The huge site, next to the pyramids of Giza, is billed as the largest museum in ...
Artnet

Scholars Thought Plague Emptied This Ancient Egyptian City. New Research Says Otherwise

The 17-year reign of Akhenaten ranks among the most dramatic in all of ancient ... First of all, that there was an unusually ...

King Tut's treasures haven't been all together in more than a century. Until now.

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 ...
Ahram Online

Rare Photos of the Golden King

As Egypt celebrates the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), Ahram Online revisits rare photos of the Golden King collection from its first display at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir in the early ...
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Storied Ancient Egyptian City Wasn't Abandoned Because of a Plague, Archaeologists Say

A new study, published in the American Journal of Archaeology, aims to show that the ancient Egyptian city of Akhetaten was ...