An idea that took seed more than 30 years ago, and has been 21 years in the making, is finally ready to bear fruit. For 108 million Egyptians, the wait for the Grand Egyptian Museum – it is walking distance from the Giza pyramids – is finally over. It has taken two decades to construct the impressive Egyptian limestone facade, behind which are housed about 100,000 artefacts that date back to seven millennia of the country’s vast history.
The sense of national pride that Egyptians anywhere in the world feel is immense – evident too in the past weekend’s glittering opening ceremony that
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