Even before the first visitors cross the Hollywood studio-style entrance with stucco columns and Ramses written in giant letters, the counter is racing.
“
With 140,000 pre-sold tickets
, we are equal to Tutankhamun.
In 2019, with 1.42 million tickets sold, we broke all records in Europe.
In all objectivity, we would already be happy to reach 700,000 entries
,” notes John Norman, president of World Heritage Exhibitions, organizer of the event.
Ramses does not have the rock star status of Tutankhamun.
In Houston and San Francisco, it “only” attracted 250,000 and 350,000 visitors.
But Paris is the only European stage of his world tour.
Thousands of Spanish, German and Italian tourists already have their tickets.
French people known to worship Egyptology flock in droves.
A “standoff with Berlin”
At a time when trips to admire the pyramids and descend the Nile have not returned to their pre-Covid level nor that…
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