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Egypt Unveils $1 Billion Grand Museum

Egypt unveils Grand Egyptian Museum dedicated to its ancient civilisation

Cairo is set to open the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum that Egypt hopes will celebrate the nation’s heritage and also revitalise its struggling economy and tourism sector.

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Five things to know about the Grand Egyptian Museum

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Grand Egyptian Museum set for a very grand opening after 3 decades and more than $1 billion

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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

Inside the $1bn Grand Egyptian Museum as 50,000 artifacts go on display from Tutankhamun to Khufu’s solar boat

The building, as big as Vatican City with a collection larger than the Louvre, has been in the making for over 30 years and is finally set to formally open in November, Maira Butt writes

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Tutankhamun treasures, Ramses statue: 5 major highlights at Grand Egyptian Museum

An 11-metre (36-foot) granite statue of Ramses the Great greets visitors in the vast entrance atrium. Ramses II, the third king of the 19th Dynasty, reigned more than 3,000 years ago (1279-1213 BC) and is among the greatest of all the Egyptian pharaohs.

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Garden statues turn out to be ancient Egyptian relics, selling for $265K

A pair of carved stone statues used as garden ornaments have sold for more than 195,000 ($265,510) after it was revealed that they were ancient Egyptian relics dating back thousands of years, an auction house has said. The artifacts were acquired from a ...