PM inspects progress in accomplishing Grand Egyptian Museum work

CAIRO - 19 December 2019: Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli inspected on Thursday progress realized so far in developing the area surrounding the Grand Egyptian Museum.

The premier underlined at a plenary meeting that was attended by Ministers Khaled Anani of Antiquities and Essam el Gazzar of Housing the importance of swiftly finalizing development of the GEM surroundings.

During the meeting, Anani reviewed a report about the progress realized so far in GEM project, noting that about 94.5 percent of work was finalized.

He noted that about 49,603 artifacts were moved to the museum.

The museum will for the first time display Tutankhmaum treasures which exceed 5,000 pieces in one place.

The Grand Egyptian Museum will allow Egypt to become a major worldwide hub for Pharonic history and a must-visit place for Egyptologists. The museum aims at taking grasp of the diversity of Egypt's heritage of monuments and arts needed to be shown in one place in one location to maintain and preserve this huge legacy.

The site chosen for the GEM is only 2km from the legendary Pyramids. Nested between the ancient Great Pyramids and the modern city of Cairo, at the junction between dry desert and the fertile floodplain, the Grand Museum is a portal to the past.

The Giza plateau Memphis and its Necropolis nominated by UNESCO among the world Cultural Heritage Sites, contains irreplaceable monuments from across time. The museum complex is built on a plot of land of approximately 117 feddans, about 480,000 square meters.