Overview
- Heads of state and royalty joined dozens of foreign delegations at the tightly choreographed ceremony, with confirmed attendees including Spain’s King Felipe VI and the king of the Netherlands.
- Authorities imposed strict security and controlled media access, accrediting 450 international correspondents as hundreds of broadcasters carried official feeds, including a sponsored stream by TikTok.
- The museum brings together about 100,000 artifacts, highlighted by the full funerary assemblage of Tutankhamun—roughly 5,000 objects—displayed together for the first time, alongside the colossus of Ramses II.
- Costing about $1.2 billion with major Japanese financing, the project took roughly two decades and overcame repeated delays linked to archaeological work, political upheaval, the pandemic, and regional tensions.
- Spanning roughly 500,000 square meters with about 85,000 square meters of exhibition space, the museum is designed for large daily crowds and is expected by officials to draw around five million visitors annually.