Egypt will inaugurate its Grand Egyptian Museum at a lavish ceremony hosted by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, officially opening the $1.2bn project it hopes will help attract millions of tourists to the country.
The vast GEM, which sits on the Pyramids plateau in Giza, is touted as the largest museum in the world dedicated to one civilisation.
Though much of it has already been opened, authorities will unveil on Saturday the centrepiece: the much-anticipated Tutankhamun galleries, displaying for the first time the entire collection of artefacts found in the tomb of the ancient Egyptian king who lived more than 3,000 years ago.
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