Egypt’s Billion-Dollar Museum Is Getting Ready to Open as the Country’s Tourism Sector Weathers the Israel-Hamas Conflict

[edwest4]

Egypt’s Billion-Dollar Museum Is Getting Ready to Open as the Country’s Tourism Sector Weathers the Israel-Hamas Conflict

The Grand Egyptian Museum has a 120-acre footprint and will house 100,000 artifacts, 20% of which will be on public display for the first time.

www.artnews.com

 

[publiusr]

Poor Zahi Hiwass...yanks think UFOs made all his antiquities... Mubarak is run off...now all the fighting.

I hope there are bars on those windows.

 

[edwest4]

I'm a Yank and no, I don't think the pyramids were made by UFOs or anything else in Egypt.

 

[publiusr]

Not spaceships…maybe riverboats?

https://weather.com/news/trending/video/newly-discovered-role-of-water-in-pyramid-construction?adRef=brn

If the Nile were closer to them and in flood, a network of heavy boats swept along might help pull the stones up ramps as they passed—via ropes wrapped around “pegs” as opposed to true pulleys/winches.