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Egypt Unveils Grand Museum DesignA giant museum with a glowing alabaster facade and a roof in alignment with the nearby pyramids will house King Tut's mummy and treasures along with thousands of other artifacts, according to a design unveiled Wednesday.
Wednesday's design was the latest step in the government's ambitious $500 million project for the Grand Museum of Egypt, which would provide a single spot at the foot of the pyramids for 100,000 artifacts, many of which have been sitting in warehouses for decades with no room to display them.
Egypt is negotiating with the Japanese Bank for International Development for a loan for the project and plans its own fund-raising drive.
The $40 million that Egypt hopes to raise from a current tour of King Tutankhamun artifacts in the United States will go toward the project.
Officials hope to start building on the site later this year and to complete construction by 2009, the Supreme Council for Antiquities said.
The museum will be set embedded in a desert plateau at the edge of the Nile Valley, a little more than a mile from the Great Pyramids, according to the model, designed by the Irish firm Heneghan.Ping Architects.
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