In this file photo taken on November 23, 2015 replicas of Egyptian King Tutankhamuns magnificent burial goods are seen during a media preview of "The Discovery of King Tut" at Premier Exhibitions 5th Avenue in New York. The exhibition dedicated to the famous Pharaoh Tutankhamun, with 150 original objects from his tomb, will take place in the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris from March 23 to September 15, 2019. TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- At least one million people are expected to flock to a "once in a generation" exhibition about the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun which opens in Paris this weekend.
More than 150 treasures from the boy king's tomb -- including 60 which have never left Egypt before -- have been assembled for the blockbuster show.
Mostafa Waziry, the Egyptian ministry's secretary general, said the touring show -- which will open in London in November before moving on to Sydney -- will help pay for the new Giza museum.
But the global tour -- which will take in six other as yet undisclosed cities -- also marks "the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of the boy king" by the British archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922.
Although organisers insisted that the contents of the show are priceless, they have been insured for more than $800 million (700 million euros).