In the shadow of the great pyramids of Giza, Egypt has unveiled a new state-of-the-art museum that is the largest in the world and packed with artefacts spanning 7,000 years of human history.

The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) cost £910 million to build and has taken some 33 years from its first proposals to its public opening scheduled for November 4.

But with exhibits including the entire contents of pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb, including the boy king’s majestic gold mask, it is surely worth the wait. What artefacts are inside the GEM?

It will house 50,000 artefacts from pre-dynastic times through to the Greeks and Romans.

Attractions include a monumental 83-ton, 3,200-year-old colossus of Ramesses II that is 11 metres tall, moved from a site near the Cairo railway station in 2006 in pre

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