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Egypt Opens Colossal New Antiquities Museum

Egypt set to open huge, $1 billion landmark museum dedicated to its past

Egypt's government will host dozens of foreign leaders and dignitaries on Saturday as it holds an official opening ceremony for the Grand Egyptian Museum, a $1 billion project decades in the making th...

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Egypt Opens Colossal New Antiquities Museum After Two-Decade Wait

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Egypt's massive Grand Museum finally opens after two-decade wait

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Giant new ancient Egypt museum opens next to pyramid

It's hoped the museum will give a huge boost to Egyptian tourism, attracting up to 8 million visitors a year.

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Egypt opens Grand Egyptian Museum, eyes tourism boom, economic lift

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Billion-dollar Grand Egyptian Museum innaugurated with lavish ceremony

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Met Museum’s first Egypt show in over a decade brings ancient gods and goddesses to life

It's been more than a decade since the last big ancient Egypt show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Now comes “Divine Egypt.” The lavish show explores how ancient Egyptians depicted their

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Ancient Egyptian gods have gathered in New York in Met Museum’s first Egypt show in over a decade

It also highlights the methods by which people animated the gods for daily veneration, establishing a crucial link between the human and divine realms.

They mummified a modern human with ancient tools. It got messy.

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient mummification techniques.