Egypt officially opened on Saturday the Grand Egyptian Museum, a long-awaited, billion-dollar showcase of pharaonic grandeur that Cairo hopes will revive tourism and boost its battered economy.

Near the ancient Pyramids of Giza just outside Cairo, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is gearing up for its lavish opening on Saturday after two decades of delays.The GEM will be the statue's final home after several relocations since its discovery in 1820 near a temple in ancient Memphis,

By Hatem Maher CAIRO (Reuters) -Egyptian officials are hoping the inauguration of a vast new museum on Saturday will accelerate the revival of a tourism industry hampered for more than a decade by internal upheaval,

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Thousands of years and conspiracies have all led to this: the Great Pyramid of Giza may have been built using the basic pulley technology.

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When most people picture Egyptian pyramids, they imagine gold treasures and mummy-filled chambers straight out of an adventure movie. The reality turns out to be far more bizarre. Archaeologists have uncovered everything from mysterious texts about cannibalism to the bones of animals that definitely shouldn’t have been there.