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Egypt opens huge, $1 billion landmark museum dedicated to its past

The Grand Egyptian Museum has taken 30 years to become a reality, but finally opened its doors, with an equally grand opening ceremony.

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Egypt Opens Colossal New Antiquities Museum After Two-Decade Wait

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Egypt unveils a huge new museum dedicated to its ancient civilization

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

Egypt is officially opening what it intends as a cultural highlight of the modern age.

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Long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum inaugurated with lavish ceremony

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Egypt opens grand museum in lavish, pharaonic ceremony

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Unprecedented security plan to secure Grand Egyptian Museum opening

Highly trained female police officers will be participating in securing foreign delegations and VIPs attending the ceremony.

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A 'Fourth Pyramid' Rises: Inside Egypt's New Grand Museum

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Great expectations: The world's biggest museum dedicated to Ancient Egypt opens its doors

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4,000-Year-Old Mystery Solved: New Research Rewrites the Origins of Egypt’s Greatest Temple

Most comprehensive study of the temple complex and its surrounding land and water scapes identifies the earliest period of occupation and points to a possible connection with a creation myth. An inter

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Ancient Egyptian gods have gathered in New York in Met Museum’s first Egypt show in over a decade

It also highlights the methods by which people animated the gods for daily veneration, establishing a crucial link between the human and divine realms.

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Met Museum's first Egypt show in over a decade brings ancient gods, goddesses to life

Ancient Egyptian civilization lasted some 3,000 years; the show, which runs into January, covers all periods and features over 200 objects, from huge limestone statues to tiny golden figurines. It includes 140 works from the Met’s collection, as well as others lent by museums across the globe.

They mummified a modern human with ancient tools. It got messy.

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient mummification techniques.

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Met Museum’s first Egypt show in over a decade brings ancient gods and goddesses to life

NEW YORK (AP) — The powerful gods of ancient Egypt are having a get-together on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. That would be at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s been more than a decade since the museum’s last big Egypt show, so “Divine Egypt ...