Sep 24, 2019
A collection of four gigantic objects have arrived at the Grand Egyptian Museum for eventual display on the museum’s grand staircase
By Nevine El-Aref
“A collection of four gigantic objects have arrived at the Grand Egyptian Museum for eventual display on the museum’s grand staircase.”
“They include two rosy granite colossi of Senosert I, a 20-tonne red granite triad statue featuring Ramses II between deities Ptah and Sekhmet, and the top of a Hatshepsut obelisk, weighing 14 tonnes.”
“Altayeb Abbas, the GEM’s director for archaeological affairs, said that the artefacts had been displayed in the garden of the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir.”
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