Thursday 06/November/2025 – 03:24 PM
The Grand Egyptian Museum is one of the greatest civilizational projects of the modern era, not only with the unique archaeological treasures it contains, but also with the integrated engineering vision that placed Egypt on the map of global creativity. Behind it stands Major General Engineer Atef Moftah, the general supervisor of the project and the surrounding area, who led the implementation process with experience, skill, and decisive decisions that reshaped the identity of the project from its inception until its completion.
Managing the Grand Egyptian Museum project
Major General Atef Moftah, in managing the project, relied on a combination of ancient Egyptian identity and modern technology, so that the result emerged in the form of a global museum that expresses Egypt in its cultural and human face, pointing out that every engineering decision carried a symbolic dimension that reflects the spirit of the place and its history.
The idea of a hanging obelisk
One of the most prominent of these decisions was the implementation of the idea of the obelisk hanging in the museum’s lobby, which came as a unique architectural symbol that combines the genius of design with the grandeur of history, as visitors pass beneath it to be celebrated by the inscriptions of King Ramses II in a visual scene that immortalizes the name of ancient Egypt in the present sky.
Transporting King Khufu’s boat
As for transporting King Khufu’s boat from the Pyramids area to the Grand Egyptian Museum, it was one of the most difficult engineering challenges in the twenty-first century, as the process required a careful study of the weight and balance of the boat and its transport axes using the latest international technologies, which was achieved with complete success without any damage, adding to the project’s record of achievements as one of the most complex and accurate archaeological transport operations in the world.
Establishing a cultural walkway linking the museum to the Pyramids Plateau area
It is noteworthy that the vision of the project did not stop at the borders of the museum, but rather extended to include the entire region, through the establishment of a cultural walkway linking the museum to the Pyramids Plateau area, to make the place an integrated tourism system linking the past and the present in a single experience for visitors from different countries of the world, and the Grand Egyptian Museum was not just an infrastructure or architectural project, but rather it was the engineering of a national identity, and an example of what cooperation between engineering thought and the national will can achieve to achieve Egypt’s greatest cultural and civilizational dream in the twenty-first century.
