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Egypt is building a $1B mega-museum

For 100 years, Egypt’s scientists have watched as their nation’s story was largely told by institutions from Europe and the United States. Can a stunning new museum change that narrative?

The museum has the potential to inspire and train a new generation of research leaders from Egypt, says Monica Hanna, an Egyptologist at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, who is based in Aswan. Egyptologist Salima Ikram at the American University in Cairo, who is not involved with the museum, and her colleagues had previously analysed 3 the thickness of the scales and suggested that they were made of untreated cattle hide. That said, “the absence of blood stains and arrow holes in the armour isn’t evidence that Tutankhamun didn’t use it in battle”, says Bob Brier, an Egyptologist at Long Island University in New York City.

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