Prime minister Rutte told president el-Sisi that the artifact, looted amid the 2011 Arab Spring, will be handed to the Egyptian ambassador in the Netherlands before year’s end.

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.

Grand Egyptian Museum costs around $1 billion, houses over 57,000 artifacts chronicling Egypt’s history - Anadolu Ajansı

CAIRO - The official opening of Egypt's Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is expected to boost the country's tourism industry and inject fresh momentum into its economy, tourism experts said, as the long-awaited landmark adds a new attraction to Egypt's cultural landscape.

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud received a warm welcome in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Saturday, where he is attending the official inauguration of Egypt's new National Museum of Culture and History,

The Grand Egyptian Museum finally opens – what took so long? - The Man Who Pays His Way: The builders have reached the finish line for Cairo’s Grand Egyptian Museum, and now the race to the past begin