The new museum will show all of the artefacts discovered by Howard Carter and his team in the tomb of Tutankhamun
Near one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World – the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza – Egypt has officially opened what it intends as a cultural highlight of the modern age.
The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), described as the world’s largest archaeological museum, is packed with some 100,000 artefacts covering some seven millennia of the country’s history from pre-dynastic times to the Greek and Roman eras.
Prominent Egyptologists argue that its establishment strengthens their demand for key Egyptian antiquities held in other countries to be returned – including the famed Rosetta Stone displayed at the British Museum.
