The nearly 480,000 square meter museum, which overlooks the famed Giza Pyramids, will hold more than 100,000 artifacts.
Mohamed El-Shahed/AFP via Getty Images, FILEwould be inaugurating a new state-of-the-art museum later this year to house the ancient boy king's vast treasures.
"If the coronavirus-related conditions are stable, then the opening would be in the second half of the year," Egypt's antiquities and tourism minister Khaled el-Anany told ABC News on the sidelines of the World Youth Forum, an annual international youth conference that the country hosts in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh."We will be ready by the middle of this year … but we want to make sure that our guests can arrive in large numbers.
The Egyptian Museum, a 120-year-old red storied structure built in Cairo's central Tahrir square, housed less than 3,000 of those objects, including Tutankhamun's golden burial mask. Other artifacts were kept in the museum's storerooms.
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