The ceremony featured a dazzling light and music show outside the museum, with massive screens displaying Egypt's ancient monuments.
—
Ayat Al-Tawy,
ABC News,
2 Nov. 2025
The functional centerpiece is a six-story staircase, which leads museumgoers past stone monuments and pharaonic statues arranged in reverse chronological order.
So much of Brazil strains the imagination—the interminable skyline of São Paulo, the beaches of Rio curving between monoliths of granite, the aquamarine pools trapped between the undulating dunes of Lençóis Maranhenses.
—
William O'Connor,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
To the west, the setting sun backlights the mountaintop monoliths of Kitt Peak National Observatory.
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