Berlin's Egyptology Museum, possessor of the bust of Queen Nefertiti and other great pharaonic treasures, is to gain a new chief, Friederike Seyfried, 49, board members decided Friday. She replaces Dietrich Wildung who retires at the end of this month. Seyfried, who is a veteran of digs in Egypt and is currently custodian of an egyptology museum in Leipzig, will oversee the Berlin museum's re-opening this October in a refurbished building, the Neues Museum, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation said.

Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni said the Grand Egyptian Museum near the Cairo-Alexandria desert road is being carried out on 117 feddans and is expected to be the biggest in the world. The second phase includes a center for renovating antiquities, a warehouse, an electricity station and a fire station, in addition to a number of buildings, said Hosni.

Work officially began Wednesday on what will one day be one of the world's great Egyptology museums, with Cairo represented by ambassador Mohamed al-Orabi at the foundation stone laying in Munich.
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