King Tut gold mask to leave Cairo museum after nearly 100 years

The golden funerary mask of ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamun (1341-1323 BC) is displayed at the Tutankhamun gallery at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo's central Tahrir Square. Photo: AFP

After nearly a century in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, King Tutankhamun's iconic gold mask and remaining treasures are set to move to the new Grand Egyptian Museum near the Giza Pyramids.

Visitors have just days left to see the boy king's world-famous gold funerary mask before it joins more than 5,000 artefacts from his tomb at the GEM, a US$1bil (RM4.2bil) megaproject opening on July 3.