Egypt opens colossal new antiquities museum

Prime ministers, presidents and royalty descended on Cairo on Saturday to attend the spectacle-laden inauguration of a sprawling new museum built near the Pyramids to house one of the world’s richest collections of antiquities.
The inauguration of the Grand Egyptian Museum, or GEM, marks the end of a two-decade construction effort hampered by the Arab Spring uprisings, pandemic and wars in neighbouring countries.
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly told a press conference “We’ve all dreamed of this project and whether it would really come true,” calling the museum a “gift from Egypt to the whole world from a country whose history goes back more than 7,000 years.”