Opening Morning
The Grand Egyptian Museum, November 4th.
On the morning of November 4th, our group arrived at the Grand Egyptian Museum on its first day open to the public. Set beside the pyramids of Giza, the museum stands as one of the most ambitious cultural monuments in modern Egypt: a vast home for the treasures of the ancient world, including the complete collection of King Tutankhamun, monumental statues, sacred objects, royal artifacts, and relics spanning thousands of years of Egyptian civilization. To walk through its doors on opening morning was to step into history twice over — entering a museum built to preserve the deep past, at the very moment it began its own public life.
