Overview
- The state-choreographed ceremony featured drone and light shows by the pyramids under tight security with restricted press access.
- Delegations from dozens of countries attended, including 39 heads of state and royalty such as Spain’s King Felipe VI.
- The 500,000‑square‑meter complex cost about $1–1.2 billion with major Japanese financing and was designed by Heneghan Peng Architects.
- The collection exceeds 100,000 artifacts, with more than 5,000 objects from Tutankhamun displayed together for the first time alongside a towering Ramses II statue in the atrium.
- Officials cast the museum as an economic engine targeting roughly five million visitors a year, tied to new roads, a nearby airport and planned transit links around Giza.