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☆ Long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum opens for trial run
  + stars: | 2024-10-16 | by ( Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
Cairo AP —The Grand Egyptian Museum will open 12 halls with exhibits about ancient Egypt in its main galleries starting this week in a trial run ahead of the still-unannounced official opening, officials have said. More than 100,000 artifacts of Egypt’s ancient treasures will be displayed in the world’s largest archaeological museum, according to the Egyptian state information website. The entrance to the Grand Egyptian Museum. ‘A gift to the world’The trial opening is aimed at figuring out which areas of the museum might become overcrowded. Other parts of the museum, including the King Tutankhamun treasure collection, are set to open at later dates.
Persons: Al, Tayeb Abbas, Gehad, AP Abbas, ”, Jorge Licano, Eissa Zidan, ” Zidan Organizations: Cairo AP, Egyptian, Grand Egyptian, AP Locations: Cairo, Egypt, New Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, Kingdom, Aude, Canadian, Costa Rican
☆ Archaeologists have discovered full-color portraits of Egyptian mummies in ancient Philadelphia
  + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Bethany Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Archaeologists have uncovered the first full-color portraits of mummies in over a century. Researchers found the two full portraits of Egyptian mummies and fragments of others at the Gerza excavation site in Fayoum, Egypt, making these artworks the first of their kind to be discovered in over 115 years. English archaeologist Flinders Petrie was the last to find similar artwork when he discovered 146 mummy portraits at a Roman cemetery in 1911, Artnet News reports. The collection of paintings, known as the Fayoum portraits, portrays some of the wealthiest people that existed in these ancient communities. A statement from the Egyptian government explains that pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus (309–246 B.C.)
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