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An inside look at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Published 6:31 AM EDT, Fri August 9, 2019
Progressing quickly: “We have 7,000 people in three shifts working day and night [to finish],” says Azmy Salama, tour consultant with Explore Egypt Tours.Long-awaited opening: Cairo’s Grand Egyptian Museum was originally set to launch in 2012, but this has now been pushed back to 2020.Grand design: Devised to subtly mirror the nearby pyramids, the GEM’s 2,000-foot-tall facade will illuminate so that it can be seen from afar.‘Secret’ tour: Visitors keen for a preview can take a private behind-the-scenes tour before it officially launches.Conservation work: Many of King Tut’s treasures are shown without the typical glass casing in the museum’s organic lab, where they are slowly being restored.Refurbished items: One third of the pharaoh’s artifacts were formerly on display at Cairo’s Egyptian Museum, but the GEM is to house all 5,000 known items.New artifacts: The goddess Ammit, a hippopotamus, represents divine retribution on King Tut’s funeral bed.Looming figure: An 83-ton Ramses II statue welcome guests in the Grand Egyptian Museum’s entrance.
