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Egypt Sets Date for Opening Billion-Dollar Museum Near Pyramids

Visitors look out towards the Giza pyramids from the Grand Egyptian Museum.Photographer: Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images

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By Abdel Latif Wahba

August 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM UTC

Egypt set Nov. 1 for the formal opening of its billion-dollar antiquities museum, after the war between Israel and Iran delayed plans to hold the long-awaited event this summer.

The new inauguration date for the Grand Egyptian Museum was approved by President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, with government ministries ordered to make preparations, Egypt’s cabinet said Wednesday in a statement.