(MENAFN) On Sunday, Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Khaled Al-Anany announced that the Grand Egyptian Museum is 70 percent complete, adding that 43 thousand 275 pieces have already been transferred to the museum, Egypt Independent reported.
During his speech in the Fourth International Tutankhamen Conference, Anany marveled at the progress, "Two years ago, the progress in the museum was less than 20 percent," Anany said, "today, it is over 70 percent complete."
Anany added that 4,579 pieces of a total of 5 thousand artifacts from the Tutankhamen collection have already been transferred to the Grand Museum, adding that it will be a destination for the world's researchers.
"The remaining pieces for the Tutankhamen collection will remain at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir so that tourists coming to Egypt at the present can find something to view," Annany reasoned.
"When the final Tutankhamen piece gets transferred this November, we will replace it by pieces such as "San Al-Hagar", "Youya and Touya" and other treasures from the storage, in addition to the antiquities that Egypt has restored from abroad. We will have treasures to impress the world. The Tahrir museum will be in even a better shape than it used to be."
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