Egyptian Museum Opens/ The Largest Archaeological Museum in the World, 100,000 Ancient Objects on Display

Next to one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza, Egypt is officially opening up to be a cultural center of the modern era.

The Grand Egyptian Museum, the largest archaeological museum in the world, officially opens its doors this Saturday.

Packed with around 100,000 objects covering around seven millennia of the country's history from pre-dynastic times to the Greek and Roman eras, this museum has a lot to offer.

At a cost of around $1.2 billion, the vast museum complex is expected to attract up to 8 million visitors a year, giving a major boost to Egyptian tourism which has been hit by regional crises.

A major attraction of the museum will be the entire contents of King Tutankhamun's intact tomb.

This includes the pharaoh's spectacular golden mask, throne and chariots.

Apart from the Tutankhamun exhibition and a new exhibition of the spectacular 4,500-year-old funerary boat of Khufu - one of the oldest and best-preserved vessels from antiquity - most of the galleries in the site had been open to the public since last year.

The new museum is colossal, spanning an area of ​​500,000 square meters, roughly the size of 70 football fields.

The exterior is covered with hieroglyphs and translucent alabaster cut into triangles with a pyramid-shaped entrance.

A giant staircase is surrounded by statues of other ancient kings and queens, and on an upper floor a large window offers a perfect view of the pyramids of Giza.

The museum was first proposed in 1992, during the rule of President Hosni Mubarak, and construction began in 2005. According to estimates, the museum took almost as long to complete as the Great Pyramid.

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