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After years of delays, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum – set to be the world’s largest devoted to ancient Egypt – will finally open its doors near the Giza pyramids.
GEM is being hailed as the world's largest museum dedicated to a single civilisation, with over 50,000 artefacts chronicling the grandeur of ancient Egypt.
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.
Egypt displayed Monday a cache of ancient artifacts dating back 2,500 years that the country’s antiquities officials revealed were recently discovered at the famed necropolis of Saqqara. The artifacts were showcased at a temporary exhibit close to the ...