A stunning new museum has in Egypt's capital city, Cairo. The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) an inauguration ceremony on Saturday by a host of dignitaries including kings and heads of state. Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said GEM "is to become an international cultural and scientific hub, contributing to enhancing tourism promotion in Egypt". Authorities the museum, which more than $1.2 billion to , as "Egypt's gift to the world". A local tour guide hopes it will " in a new golden age of Egyptology". The location of GEM is also likely to visitors as it is situated in Giza and panoramic vistas of the Sphinx and the Pyramids.
The museum has been as the world's largest archaeological site to an ancient civilisation. It over 50,000 exhibits that have been from the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo and from sites across Egypt. the entrance is a towering 3,200-year-old, 11-metre-tall granite statue of Ramesses the Great, one of Egypt's most celebrated pharaohs. GEM also the entire Tutankhamun collection in one place for the first time since 1922, when it was in the southern city of Luxor. Officials hope GEM will the return of Egyptian antiquities in other countries, especially the Rosetta Stone, which currently on display at the British Museum.
