• Edifice Rex

    6. november 2025, Egypten ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F

    The Grand Egyptian Museum, which we visited opening week, is Egypt’s biggest project since the Aswan Dam, and, between avid tourists and proud citizens, already has Louvre-level crowds. Our guide Yasser was agog: “Never in my life have I seen so many of my countrymen in one place at one time.” We were all a little overwhelmed and buffeted, but the GEM is not overblown. Its enormous triangular windows frame views of the Pyramids and its signage proclaims “The History of the Future.” With Tutankhamen’s golden radiance now a treasured memory
    artifact, we wished Misr and its people peace, joy, and farewell.
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