{"id":14374,"date":"2024-10-16T13:29:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T13:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/grand-egyptian-museum-partially-opens-to-public\/"},"modified":"2024-10-16T13:29:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T13:29:09","slug":"grand-egyptian-museum-partially-opens-to-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/grand-egyptian-museum-partially-opens-to-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Egyptian Museum partially opens to public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A highly anticipated museum housing the world&#8217;s largest collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts has opened the doors to some of its galleries.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">More than 20 years in the making, the sprawling 120-acre <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/w3ct42c9\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">Grand Egyptian Museum<!-- --><\/a> near the pyramids of Giza, will showcase more than 100,000 objects, including treasures from the tomb of King Tutankhamun.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The boy-king&#8217;s priceless collection is yet to be displayed, but visitors can now see items varying from pharaonic statues to sarcophagi and mummified bodies.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The museum was initially scheduled to open in 2012, but cost, political turmoil and later, the Covid-19 pandemic, caused repeated delays. To date, the mega-project has cost more than $1bn (\u00a3768m).<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The partial opening is a trial run, following the last year&#8217;s opening of the main hall and stairway. The official opening date yet to be announced.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Here, we collect some of the most striking pictures of the newly opened galleries. <!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c4gdjpdd18yo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A highly anticipated museum housing the world&#8217;s largest collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts has opened the doors to some of its galleries. More than 20 years in the making, the sprawling 120-acre Grand Egyptian Museum near the pyramids of Giza, will showcase more than 100,000 objects, including treasures from the tomb of King Tutankhamun. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14376,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14374\/revisions\/14376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}