Two decades in the making at an estimated cost of more than a billion dollars, the Grand Egyptian Museum will soon open outside Cairo. The facility brings together for the first time nearly all 5,000-plus artifacts from King Tutankhamun’s tomb
, including 250 painted wood sarcophagi, 150 bronze statuettes, and scores of mummies and statues of cats, mongooses, crocodiles, and ibises.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.: Today’s custodians of Egypt’s cultural heritage include Mohamed Megahed, who oversees the pyramid complex of Pharaoh Djedkare at Saqqara. The ancient burial ground has been the site of many finds in recent years.
Archaeological projects led by Egyptians have jumped during the past decade. There now are more than 40 Egyptian-led missions, many producing remarkable discoveries. Egyptologist Monica Hanna has been leading the charge against looting of ancient sites across the country, even confronting armed looters herself. She hopes the GEM will be a museum that “speaks to Egyptians, that shows them how they are descendants of this great civilization, and how they can relate to and identify with their past.”Valley of the Kings
Tutankhamun’s mummy is still here, however. Tucked away in a corner of the tomb, in a climate-controlled glass box, the young king lies beneath a white coverlet. His face, wizened by the ages, is a far cry from the golden death mask he once wore, with its iconic, self-assured smile, sly as the Mona Lisa.
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