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For the first time since the boy king's tomb was discovered in 1922 all the items will stored in one place, a museum director told NBC News.
Flash flooding in the Valley of the Kings has caused damage to the fragile rock beneath and above the tomb of King Tutankhamun.
It has 12 major galleries that display antiques installed chronologically from prehistoric times to the Roman era
A disaster could strike at any moment, and if the Valley of the Kings is to be preserved, action must be taken before it is too late.”
Egypt has opened the Grand Egyptian Museum, a massive new archaeological museum. It showcases over 100,000 artefacts spanning 7,000 years of history. The museum's biggest attraction is the full display of Tutankhamun's treasures,
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