Cairo: A collection of 356 artefacts have been relocated from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir to the Grand Egyptian Museum – 57 of whom are artefacts from the treasures of the Golden King Tutankhamun and 11 pieces will be displayed on the grand staircase.
Director General of the Grand Egyptian Museum for Antiquities affairs Dr Al Tayeb Abbas, said that one of the most important artefacts in the collection is a statue of the God Ptah, whose weights range between five and six tonnes, which will be displayed on the grand staircase within another distinguished group of royal statues.
Among the transferred artefacts a pink granite statue of King Ramses II and a black granite statue of King Thutmose III in addition to a naos for King Nectanebo and a box of quartzite for preserving canopic pots from the collection of King Thutmose III.
Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities previously announced that about more than 90 per cent of the work at the Grand Egyptian Museum was finalised. The state of the art museum is expected to be inaugurated in the last quarter of 2020.
The inauguration of the Grand Egyptian Museum is one of the main events that Egypt and the whole world is waiting for in 2020.
About 49,603 artefacts have so far been transferred to the Grand Egyptian Museum.