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Hello and welcome to News Out from the BBC World Service coming to you live from London.
I'm James Kamarasami.
As a rule,
the opening of a new museum would not make its way to the top of the international news agenda.
But the fact that we are beginning the program with the grand opening of a billion dollar museum gives you an idea of the riches contained within it.
As does the presence of dozens of world leaders at the official opening ceremony in a few hours time for the Grand Egyptian Museum just outside Cairo.
It's located near the pyramids of Giza and it took roughly the same time to build
as it thought they did.
The building contains artefacts from seven millennia of Egypt's history,
but its main highlight is the first ever display of the entire contents of the pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb,
a century after its discovery by the British Egyptologist Howard Carter.
From Cairo, here's our BBC Middle East correspondent Yoland Nel.
Not far from where tourists flock to see one of the seven wonders of the ancient world,
Egypt is officially opening a cultural highlight of the modern age.
The vast Grand Egyptian Museum is one of the biggest museums globally and it's packed with 100,000 artefacts.
It's expected to bring millions more tourists and guide Ahmed Sadiq is in no doubt about what's about to become the main highlight.
When the Tutankhamun collection opens, then can you imagine,
the whole world will come back and come back many times.
Because this is the iconic fair, the most famous king of all antiquity and the most intact tomb.