{"id":69250,"date":"2025-12-03T21:05:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=69250"},"modified":"2025-12-03T21:05:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:05:57","slug":"among-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/among-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"Among Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"On the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWalking across the wide courtyard, you come to an open-ended pyramid in the middle of the pylon-like complex that is the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM). This is the first design statement of what is now the world's largest archaeological museum. It is a reversal of ancient Egypt\u2014it doesn\u2019t diminish its grandeur but rather brings it to life. In ancient Egypt, a covered path, like a tunnel, led from the valley temple to the pyramids; here, it is a wide courtyard. In ancient Egypt, the pyramid was closed; here, the entrance, set into the design of an open pyramid, invites visitors in, entices them in, even sucks them in. That's how history is: its narrative draws us in!\n\n\n\nVisitors to the museum are greeted by an 11-meter-high, 82-<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Walking across the wide courtyard, you come to an open-ended pyramid in the middle of the pylon-like complex that is the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM). This is the first design statement of what is now the world&#8217;s largest archaeological museum. It is a reversal of ancient Egypt\u2014it doesn\u2019t diminish its grandeur but rather brings it to life. In ancient Egypt, a covered path, like a tunnel, led from the valley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9159,"featured_media":69035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8846,8823],"tags":[11732,11733,8824],"class_list":["post-69250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-reflection","tag-ausgabe-47-2025-en","tag-english-issue-49-2025","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}