Cairo's Gem opens with the mystery of Tutankhamun

(by Elisabetta Stefanelli) In the latest video of presentation just made a drone penetrates through the walls and confirms that on July 3, after many years of waiting, The Great Egyptian Museum, the Gem of the Cairo, the largest in the world dedicated to this ancient civilization. One hundred thousand finds for 500 thousand square meters of surface: not there is still the treasure of Tutankhamun's tomb, which will be a separate pavilion of the Gem has been dedicated, but it will be the last what to be transferred from the old Egyptian Museum in Piazza Tahrir which will also remain open with its dusty charm and a collection that is certainly not of secondary importance. Although according to Tarek El Awadi, former director of the Museum Egyptian Cairo: Tutankhamun's mask could remain in the old location, "because it is among the objects that have a legal obligation and are unshakable." Explains El Awadi - who is also the curator of the great exhibition Treasures of the Pharaohs which will be in Rome at the Scuderie del Quirinale from October 24th - which however "in the new museum King Tutankhamun will have an enormous space, worthy of its beauty and value, a whole pavilion". But other scholars are certain that even the mask will be transferred to the Gem, with all the rest of the treasure and So there still remains a mystery about this: will the mask be there or not? won't there be? Tutankhamun aside, Gem would not call him pharaonic. certainly no harm to anyone: it welcomes you into its gigantic atrium statue of Ramses II, the longest-reigning pharaoh in history of ancient Egypt with its 75 years of reign. 12 meters high for 83 tons of granite, was discovered in 1820 by the Genoese explorer and Egyptologist Giovanni Battista Ankle in the Great Temple of Ptah, near Memphis, the capital of Egypt during the Old Kingdom. The Gem seems almost born around the image of the creator of Abu Simbel and the statue was was already moved in 2018 from the position where it was located, in the square in front of the old city station. Here it almost seems small and can be seen from a distance from the entrance which is pyramid-shaped, made of alabaster like all the windows of this ultra-modern building, the result of the team of architects led by Heneghan Peng Architects (Hparc), a architectural firm based in Dublin and Berlin. The museum is located near the complex of Pyramids and Sphinx of Giza seen from inside of the Gem through a spectacular glass window that connects virtually the museum to the site. Meanwhile a bridge is under construction which will really connect Pyramids to Gem, both close at Giza airport and a new hotel complex that a candidate to be a major tourist destination, decongesting the center of the crowded and chaotic city. Inside the museum, in the 20 rooms already available, you can It enters through a gigantic staircase which is also accessible with a moving carpet. The tour route then winds along in a triple organization of the set-up, which allows three different analysis models, very interesting therefore, with finds which, in addition to the Cairo Museum, come from Luxor, Minya, Sohag, Assiut, Beni Suef, Fayoum, Delta and Alexandria and go from large statues to everyday objects daily. The chronological plan, the thematic one linked to the spiritual area, the social one can be visited choosing your favorite cut. Great accessibility, great use of virtual reality, lighting of spectacular beauty: All this makes the Gem a truly modern museum. On January 5, 2002, then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak laid the first stone; now, after a series of postponements and a partial opening on October 16th, to announce the date The inauguration was attended by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on January 27, explaining that they would be invited many heads of state for "events that will continue for several days". Appointment with the mystery of Tutankhamun at 3 July.