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A kind of colossal fan made of light-coloured concrete, steel and glass lies on the desert slope, with the pyramids of Giza on the plateau behind it. The Great Egyptian Museum is slowly taking shape, and you can already picture how school groups and tourists might one day gather on the forecourt in the shade of the palm trees. Ten years after the start of construction work, the only question that remains is: When will it finally open? Essentially, only a few final steps needed to be taken, the Ministry of Antiquities announced in February. Structural work, the atrium and the grand staircase we…