Upon entering the newly opened Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo, visitors are greeted by a nearly 40-foot-tall granite statue of King Ramses II, setting the tone for an unparalleled journey through what ...

Egypt Opens Colossal New Antiquities Museum After Two-Decade Wait By Alexander Dziadosz CAIRO (Reuters) -Prime ministers, presidents and royalty descended on Cairo on Saturday to attend the ...

CAIRO (AP) — In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, Egypt on Saturday inaugurated its long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum, a ...

The long-anticipated Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Giza opened to the public on Tuesday, November 4, after a dramatic pyrotechnic inauguration ceremony attended by local and European leaders last ...

The Dec. 12 opening of the museum’s reimagined Egypt galleries will feature more than 1,000 artifacts, interactive exhibits ...

BERLIN — When Monica Hanna first visited Berlin in 2007, even before checking into her hotel, she rushed to the Altes Museum to visit Nefertiti. The Egyptian archaeology graduate student was eager to ...

Cairo — Egypt's government hosted dozens of foreign leaders and dignitaries on Saturday as it held an official opening ceremony for the Grand Egyptian Museum, a $1 billion project decades in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an effort to attract more international tourists, the Egyptian Tourism Authority announced the opening of the Grand Egyptian ...

Egypt Hopes Vast New Museum by the Pyramids Will Accelerate Tourism Revival By Hatem Maher CAIRO (Reuters) -Egyptian officials are hoping the inauguration of a vast new museum on Saturday will ...

CAIRO (Reuters) -Prime ministers, presidents and royalty descended on Cairo on Saturday to attend the spectacle-laden inauguration of a sprawling new museum built near the Pyramids to house one of the ...

Egypt on Saturday was inaugurating the long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum, the world’s largest museum dedicated to an ancient civilization — a megaproject also aimed at boosting the country’s tourism ...