CAIRO — 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 ...

Egypt hopes the new museum will draw in five million visitors annually, making one of the most-visited in the world - Copyright AFP/File ROBERTO SCHMIDT Egypt hopes ...

After two decades of anticipation, delays, and global curiosity, Egypt is finally ready to unveil the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) — the world’s largest museum dedicated to a single civilization.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cairo's newest attraction is the Grand Egyptian Museum, a modern testament to one of the world's oldest civilizations. Jane Pauley ...

The golden funerary mask of King Tutankhamun is displayed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo - Copyright AFP FERNANDO CARTAGENA The golden funerary mask of King ...

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy pharaoh's golden mask in his hands. Years later, the Egyptian conservator ...

The angular steel and concrete skeleton of Egypt's huge new museum rises up on the Giza plains, in sight of the pyramids that inspired it. When it opens next year, visitors to the Grand Egyptian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. English archaeologist Howard Carter near the golden sarcophagus of Tutankhamun in the Valley of Kings, Egypt. Photo acquired on ...

Thousands of visitors streamed through the Grand Egyptian Museum on Tuesday as almost the entire collection of King Tutankhamun's treasures -- over 4,500 artefacts -- was displayed together for the ...

An archaeologist performs restorations on the sarcophagus of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the restoration lab of the Grand Egyptian Museum in 2020. An archaeologist performs restorations on the sarcophagus ...