The Egyptologists’ Guide to the Grand Egyptian Museum

After more than a decade of anticipation, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), the largest museum devoted to a single civilization, has fully opened its exhibitions, including the long-awaited King Tutankhamun halls.Originally announced in 2002, the idea for the museum dates back to the 1990s, when Egypt began envisioning a new institution in Giza to relieve the strain on the aging Egyptian Museum in downtown Cairo. Construction began in 2005, but the path to completion faced setbacks from political