Egypt Unveils $1 Billion Grand Museum
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Grand Egyptian Museum costs around $1 billion, houses over 57,000 artifacts chronicling Egypt’s history - Anadolu Ajansı
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
The Grand Egyptian Museum, decades in the making, hopes to show off a nation’s history on the biggest scale possible
Thousands of years and conspiracies have all led to this: the Great Pyramid of Giza may have been built using the basic pulley technology.
Their design was envisioned as a bridge between ancient history and modern innovation. ‘Designing a museum of this calibre, in such close proximity to a landmark as monumental and symbolic as the pyramids,
Egypt is inaugurating the Grand Egyptian Museum, the world's largest museum dedicated to its ancient civilization and an effort aimed at boosting the country's tourism industry and troubled economy.