The Grand Egyptian Museum

Perched just two kilometers from the Pyramids of Giza, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is Egypt’s latest jewel, a colossal bridge between civilization past and modern wonder. Spanning over 100,000 artefacts and built on sustainable lines of light, stone, and shadow, GEM offers travellers in Greater Cairo an experience that thrills the senses: the echoing roar of the desert, the glint of gold and alabaster, the hush in the halls as you stand before Ramses II or Tutankhamun’s treasures for the very first time. Inside its soaring Grand Hall, and along twelve galleries of Egypt’s dynastic timeline, from predynastic dawns through the Greco-Roman flourish, you’ll trace hieroglyphs lit by daylight, see sculptures that once stood in temples, and feel the weight of Egyptology, restored. And though some of the most awaited sections like the full Tutankhamun galleries or Khufu’s Solar Boat Pavilion.