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The Grand Egyptian Museum..Egypt's Gift To The World

The world's biggest archaeological museum

By mohamedPublished 2 years ago 5 min read
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The Grand Egyptian repository project is one among the national comes, that could be a welcome addition to Egyptian business and even international cultural and media tourism. In addition, it reflects the extent of Egyptian international cooperation, because it is taken into account one of the biggest cultural and archeological projects within the world, and also the largest repository in the world dedicated to 1 civilization, which is that the Egyptian civilization Old.

This museum can become one among the foremost vital symbols of bilateral cooperation between Egypt and Japan, because the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) provided financial backing through 2 official development aid loans with a complete worth of concerning $800 million, additionally to technical cooperation to support the restoration center of the Grand Egyptian repository involved with conservation work. restoration, packaging and transportation of artifacts; Transfer of experience concerning the management and operation of the museum and exhibitions to support the preparations for the gap of the museum; The excavations and restoration of the second chariot of Khufu, known as the second chariot of the sun, within the pyramids area, that is anticipated to become one among the museum' exhibits and one of the foremost vital parts of attracting guests .

The Grand Egyptian repository is found a number of miles west of Cairo and solely 2 kilometers from the Pyramids of Giza, and is located on a district of ​​117 acres. Henghan Bing Company won the beaux arts style competition for the museum. studio composer won the museum exhibition. .

The repository includes several archeological and cultural treasures that characterize Egypt, that the museum will be distinctive in showing, because it will display for the primary time the whole assortment of King Tutankhamun' holdings, which range up to 5000 unique artifacts, and can receive the sculpture of King Ramses II, which was enraptured in 2006 to its new final location. within the lobby of the Grand Egyptian Museum, guests to the museum. The museum additionally includes a special hall to display the sarcophagi of the "Al -Asasif Cache" returning from Luxor, which the Egyptian mission found last October within the archeological memorial park of Al-Asasif, so as to focus on its archaeological, historical and inventive worth . it's a distinguished cluster of thirty coloured picket human coffins for men, ladies and children, in good shape of preservation, colours and inscriptions in full, as they were unconcealed in the position during which the traditional Egyptian left them, closed coffins with mummies inside, classified during a cache on 2 levels, one higher than the other, as well as the primary level has eighteen coffins and also the second level has twelve coffins.

gathering purpose for ancient and fashionable civilizations, to accommodate five million guests annually. additionally to the buildings for business and recreational services, the restoration center and also the museum park during which trees that were well-known to the traditional Egyptian are going to be planted, the museum is regular to incorporate quite 100,000 artifacts from the Pharaonic, Greek and Roman eras, which can provides a nice boost to the business sector in Egypt, and the value of the museum has reached One billion dollars, and more than 5,000 individuals worked for it, as well as engineers, technicians, and staff with international experience during this field.

The Grand Egyptian repository offers its guests a distinct and exceptional expertise that reflects the greatness of the Egyptian civilization during a fashionable building. Amon, and there's Sphinx Airport, that is quarter-hour from the museum site, which can facilitate the movement of holidaymakers thereto and provides them the chance to travel to different tourist cities once visiting the museum, reminiscent of Sharm El tribal sheikh or the new town of El Alamein. it'll additionally give a nice chance to diversify business programs and blend cultural tourism with patterns. different tourism, as well as beach tourism .

the invention Channels Network is presently motion-picture photography and manufacturing 3 promotional films concerning the repository regular to open in 2020, in coordination with the Ministry of Tourism, to show them on the network' numerous channels in several countries round the world, before gap the museum to the general public to make a worldwide passion about the opening of this great cultural building .

concerning 249 artifacts were transferred from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir and also the antiquities space of ​​Tel Basta in Zagazig, the foremost vital of that could be a pink granite triangular sculpture within the middle of King Ramesses and on each side of it's the god Ptah and the immortal Hathor. it's a product of the excavations of the joint Egyptian-German mission in the Tel Basta area .

it's one among the significant items which will be displayed on the nice stairway in the museum. It measures 198 x a hundred and fifty five x fifty eight and weighs concerning four tons. The statue was transferred to the Heavy Antiquities Restoration Laboratory at the repository for examination and necessary restoration work, before displaying it among the significant items on the nice Staircase.

Among the foremost vital movable pieces are a distinguished group of colourful stone statues portraying senior statesmen and scribes from the previous Kingdom, additionally to a gaggle of faux doors manufactured from limestone additionally adorned with inscriptions, hieroglyphs and cartouches of King Bibi.

It also displays for the primary time the gathering of King Tutankhamun gathered in one place, that amounts to more than 5,000 items, additionally to the repository lobby wherever the sculpture of King Ramesses and also the column of his son King Merneptah, and the nice stairway which will contain eighty seven royal statues and large beaux arts parts from Among them are the statues of King Khafre, Menkaure, Senusret, male monarch and Amenhotep III

The committees involved with the primary receiving, restoration, packaging and transportation operations administered the first restoration work for the vital pieces that require restoration before the packaging operations, and a standing report was ready for every piece to prove the manifestations of damage.

The heavy items were additionally wrapped on picket bases lined with acid-free foam, and the little pieces were wrapped in fifteen wooden boxes.

With reference to the international media level, country newspaper "The Times" represented the repository as "the greatest civilizational and cultural project throughout the present century and selected it because the second most vital ten vast projects, that are expected to possess a very important role in human civilization during the approaching amount .

"As described by identical phrase, writer Grunberg, member the planning team for the project’s interior halls predicted that the repository would vanquish the world’s museums in terms of its importance, such as the Louvre, Berlin, country repository, and others, as a result of it's a contemporary museum that embraces the masterpieces of Egyptian civilization .

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