The museum is located in Giza outside Cairo, next to the nine pyramids on the Giza Plateau. With its 50,000 objects, it surpasses the Louvre's 35,000 exhibited artifacts and is presented as the world's largest museum dedicated to a single civilization.
Inside the entrance, an eleven-meter-high statue of Pharaoh Ramses II welcomes visitors and from the upper floor, visitors have a view of the pyramids.
For President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi, the museum is a heart project intended to increase tourism and the inflow of foreign currency.
The museum's official opening was supposed to take place in July, but was postponed due to the unrest in the Middle East.
