Colossal statues of pharaohs on granite thrones adorn the great staircase at the Cairo’s new Grand Egyptian Museum, while a steel atrium soars above the building, engineered to draw in cooler air currents to ease the desert heat.
The vast complex, which is sited close to the pyramids plateau in Giza, is nearing completion and almost ready for its launch scheduled for next year — almost 20 years after construction began.
Cairo has vaunted the GEM as the largest museum in the world devoted to a single civilisation and is counting on the $1.2bn project to boost the country’s crucial tourism industry.
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