{"id":208824,"date":"2025-10-03T11:50:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-to-open-gem-in-november-showcasing-full-tutankhamun-collection-for-the-first-time\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:50:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:50:51","slug":"egypt-to-open-gem-in-november-showcasing-full-tutankhamun-collection-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-to-open-gem-in-november-showcasing-full-tutankhamun-collection-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt to Open Gem in November, Showcasing Full Tutankhamun Collection for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Millions of ancient Egyptian civilization lovers are eagerly counting down to November 1, the date set for the official inauguration of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">This long-anticipated event is expected to outshine all previous cultural and historical occasions in Egypt&#8217;s modern era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">The foundation stone of the project was laid down in 2002, with construction beginning in May 2005 to be followed by the establishment of the largest antiquities restoration center in the Middle East in 2006,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509220038.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of ancient Egyptian civilization lovers are eagerly counting down to November 1, the date set for the official inauguration of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM). This long-anticipated event is expected to outshine all previous cultural and historical occasions in Egypt&#8217;s modern era. The foundation stone of the project was laid down in 2002, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":208825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,12795,4697,415,10170,7483,257,16554,5983,16799,254,6599,19053],"class_list":["post-208824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-collection","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-full","tag-gem","tag-news","tag-november","tag-open","tag-showcasing","tag-south-africa-today","tag-time","tag-tutankhamun"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}