The long-awaited opening of Egypt’s Grand Egyptian Museum is far more than a cultural event ~ it is a profound act of historical restoration. Standing in the shadow of the Great Pyramid at Giza, the museum does not merely house relics of a lost civilisation; it reclaims Egypt’s right to tell its own story. For the first time, the treasures of Tutankhamun’s tomb are displayed together as a complete collection, allowing the world to experience the discovery as Howard Carter once did ~ but through Egyptian eyes, on Egyptian soil. This moment carries deep symbolic resonance.

For more than a century, the story of ancient Egypt has been filtered through foreign hands, displayed in glass cases thousands of miles from the Nile. The new museum turns that narrative inward, presenting Egyptology not as an inheritance of Western scholarship but as an expression of Egyptian identity. Every piece of gold, every inscription, and every........

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