Grand Egyptian Museum: inside the world’s greatest collection of ancient Egyptian treasures

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More than 30 years in the making, the world's largest museum dedicated to a single civilisation, the Grand Egyptian Museum has finally opened in Cairo. Explore has your exclusive look at this treasure trove of Egyptian civilisation. This video includes ACM-produced voiceover powered by AI.

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00:00Let me take you inside the world's most incredible museum, the Grand Egyptian Museum.

00:23More than 30 years in the making, the museum is a staggering feat of architecture.

00:29Its geometric facade is an ode to the timeless forms of the pyramids.

00:35Its soaring ceilings reflect the grandeur of ancient Egyptian temples.

00:40From the moment I enter the museum, I am under its spell.

00:44A soaring, 11-metre-high, 3,200-year-old granite statue of Ramses II greets me as I walk into the atrium.

00:59The Grand Staircase Gallery, which rises to a height of about six floors, features 60 larger-than-life relics,

01:09while the windows at the top of the staircase offer sweeping views of the pyramids of Giza.

01:15I can spend days in the museum's main galleries section, which displays thousands of ancient Egyptian artefacts.

01:33But the pièce de résistance of the museum is the Tat Gallery, which displays 5,000 objects from Tutankhamen's tomb,

01:42including his golden mask, which were discovered in the pharaoh's tomb in 1922.

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