New Grand Egyptian Museum displays never-before-seen treasures

It's reading this immense atrium is awe-inspiring. King Ramsey the 2nd 3,500 years old. Sent from the past to God this model is it. The grand Egyptian museum built with a billion dollars adorned with futuristic pyramids the grand staircase itself stretches from ancient Egypt to the Greco Roman period, you're stepping through time. Thousands of years of history. With 12 newly constructed exhibition halls, the pharaohs new home overlooks their old home. This is special. It's been special for my 10,000 co-workers Ahmed as a company produced the steel for a museum the size of 80 football fields. Every truckload of steel that will go on to that museum we we dealt with special care look closely and you can see the pyramids in the building's design. It captures 7,000 years of Egyptian history. We're all very proud of that. It's also part of the architectural Renaissance of Egypt. A modernization of each of sort of this stuff. Every and this weekend, a new gallery will be unveiled dedicated to King Tutankhamun the museum's promotional video offering him some of his ancient Egypt brought back to life for almost a decade we tracked the tough task of transporting King Tut's world in 2017 we were face to face with the last precious piece to move to to come in gold and mask. To the new museum's loading. This is that you have to that you want the artifacts irreplaceable some points face. Yes, over 5,300 of King Tutankhamun belongings painstakingly restored and this month NBC News given more exclusive access to the laboratories where restoration work is nonstop you have thousands of conservative the the thousands of people, yes, working here, the director of the conservation Center has been here since the start. I'm sure I'm proud that because this is one of the biggest modern conservation center in the world. The museum has the capacity to keep receiving artifacts from antiquity. Okay, legendary Egyptologist doctor who asked took us to the Valley of the Kings where there are often new discoveries. In this city. 2. okay. Now Egypt has a museum that can handle its history already written and yet to be told tonight they are preparing for an official opening and a new chapter in Egypt's long story. Ancient civilization in a stunning new setting fits for the future. Well here you've got everybody in the studio saying that's it I'm going to Cairo. What else did you learn behind the scenes there and by the way, how will how soon does this all open up. So this weekend is the official opening lots of grandiose people Tom presidents and and officials will be there and then you and I the likes of you and I can get into the King Tut exhibition in the days afterwards and that will be the first time that you'll get to see as I mentioned all of his exhibits all that together and one of the things that really struck us was just how many of them there are you saw in that report, the sandals of the sandals of the sandals all of these things, you know the ancient Egyptians really did believe that they were leaving all of this stuff for the king or Pharaoh or the Queen to live another life. Another thing alternative time that we were really struck by was that those guys in the museum they have to figure out how to just not just move these enormous statues to the museum from different places around this great country, but also how to get them on to that place how to put them in positions where they don't get broken, you know that golden mask from 2 in common, the big got broken at one point it all. It's unthinkable. So you've got to get it right. Well what a great honor for you to be able to go in so many times and you've done just such fascinating reporting. Thanks care appreciate it. stories on the NBC News app or watch live on our YouTube channel.