Inside Egypt's 'Gift'

'A gift from Egypt to the world'

By Geoffrey Cobb, irishecho.com

I just visited the stunning new Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt. As a writer I am not supposed to be at a loss for words, but this amazing building, the largest archeological museum on Planet Earth packed with some 100,000 artifacts covering some seven millennia of the country's history from pre-dynastic times to the Greek and Roman eras simply left me speechless. I was even more gobsmacked when I learned that this magnificently designed edifice is the creation of an Irish woman, Róisín Heneghan from County Mayo and her husband Chinese American Shi Fu Peng. It’s hard to grasp the vastness of the museum, whose 5.4 million-square-foot size, FINISH READING HERE

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