Grand Egyptian Museum set to open
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Egypt is inaugurating on Saturday the Grand Egyptian Museum, two decades in the making, with the aim of drawing more visitors to revitalize the country's tourist industry. Located just outside Cairo on the Giza Plateau which also includes the three pyramids and the Sphinx,
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.
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King Tut's Treasures Are Finally Reunited
For the first time since Howard Carter uncovered Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, all of the boy pharaoh's treasures are back under one roof. The Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, poised for its grand opening on Saturday,
An archaeologist performs restorations on the sarcophagus of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the restoration lab of the Grand Egyptian Museum in 2020 — Khaled DESOUKI As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and ...
The golden funerary mask of King Tutankhamun is displayed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo A man stands by ancient stone sarcophaguses displayed at the Egyptian Museum After nearly a century in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, King Tutankhamun's iconic gold ...
CAIRO (Reuters) - The Egyptian Museum in Cairo acknowledged on Saturday that one of its greatest treasures, the mask of King Tutankhamun, had been crudely glued back together after being damaged, but insisted the item could be restored to its former glory.