Posted on 10/28/2025 4:05:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
After years of delays, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum -- set to be the world's largest devoted to ancient Egypt -- will finally open its doors near the Giza pyramids.
The opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), which has been more than twenty years in the making, had been slated to open its doors back in 2013.
After countless delays -- from the Covid-19 pandemic to regional instability -- the grand unveiling is now set for 1 November.
Located just a stone's throw from the pyramids of Giza, the museum will be the largest archaeological and antiquities museum in the world dedicated entirely to ancient Egypt.
In October 2024, GEM offered a sneak peek, opening its first 12 galleries to around 4,000 lucky visitors.
The final phase, planned for 2025, will unveil the Tutankhamun treasure rooms. Some 5,000 objects from the boy king's tomb -- including his world-famous gold funerary mask -- will go on show.
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It’s all pipes, what’s the difference?!? /george
That’s probably one way they got the reputation as a ****hole. 😎
Y’know, air conditioning is less than 200 years old I think, and Egypt gets quite hot during the year. It’s gotta be cooler underground, or inside, say, a massive pyramid. That’s probably why the pharaohs wanted burial of some sort, they didn’t want to be bakin’ in the afterlife.
Do they have a room dedicated to King Rootin Tootin?
(I have this rarities album on vinyl, hadn't thought about this song or heard it in over 40 years, thanks for the trip down Failing Memory Lane)Jack Bruce - Rootin' Tootin' 1965 | 2:58
ksdaman | 3.57K subscribers | 3,657 views | October 14, 2014
We Want Our Mummy (1939)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAUUx4aUCZo
clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce4hU0Z9yF8
 Hahahaha, so they dried em' out in advance!!!
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