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The site of Grand Egyptian Museum

A new Egyptian museum will bring treasures of the pyramids back to practically where they were buried

March 4, 2018Culture

The new museum, roughly the size of 10 soccer fields, will allow more of Egypt’s antiquities to be displayed in better conditions than ever before. And they’ll be closer to where some of them were buried.

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