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Biggest - It is the biggest Tutankhamun exhibition to leave Egypt. It includes over 150 original artefacts, with 60 pieces never seen before outside of Egypt.

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Centenary - The 'King Tut: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh' exhibition will tour ten countries for the centenary, including the Australian Museum in Sydney.

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Upgrade - Sydney's Australian Museum will receive a $50 million upgrade before welcoming the exhibition.

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2021 - The exhibition will commence in 2021 and stay for six months.

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Los Angeles - The exhibition is currently at The California Science Center in Los Angeles.

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Last time - This will be the last time the exhibition will be on the road before it becomes a permanent part of Giza's Grand Egyptian Museum when it is completed.

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Science - Throughout the exhibit the latest science explains King Tut's life, health, death and lineage.

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NSW Minister for the Arts - NSW Arts Minister Don Harwin said "The significant upgrades to the Australian Museum will ensure we have world-class museum exhibition spaces for visitors".

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"Game changer" - He said "the Tutankhamun exhibition is a game-changer for Sydney and Australia," according to Sydney Morning Herald.

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Major cultural city - "Sydney is the major cultural city in the Pacific/South East Asian region, and the significant upgrades to the Australian Museum will ensure we have world-class museum exhibition spaces for visitors as well as residents to enjoy." He said.

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Education - He continued, "As well as the transformed exhibition space, the refurbishment will also create new education facilities, enabling school student visitors to double to 100,000 a year – all completed in time to host the Tutankhamun exhibition."

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Expand - The upgrade will include re-purposing existing storage space across two levels to expand exhibition halls to 1500 square meters. 

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"Incredible coup" - Macquarie University's Professor of Egytpology, Naguib Kanawati, said the exhibition was an "incredible coup" for Australia according to Sydney Morning Herald.

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Irreplaceable - "This is obviously an irreplaceable heritage and absolutely this is the last time these items will leave Egypt because they are packed up just while the Grand Museum is being built." He said.

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Canopic - He mentioned King Tut's coffin would not be on exhibit, "But we will get a miniature coffin, a canopic coffinette, which is where his liver was".

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Boost - According to Sydney Morning Herald, "Treasurer Dominic Perrottet said the upgrades would deliver a boost to the culture economy."

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National treasure - Perrottet said, "The Australian Museum is a national treasure and this expansion will not only bring the world’s biggest blockbuster exhibitions like Tutankhamun, it will also bring flow on benefits for local businesses".

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Blockbuster - "The expanded touring exhibition halls will be able to accommodate up to 800,000 visitors during a blockbuster the size and scale of Tutankhamun." He added.

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2011 - The first, and only other Tutankhamun exhibition visited Melbourne in 2011.

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'Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs' - 'Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs' smashed records for touring exhibitions in Australia, attracting 796,277 attendees, according to Sydney Morning Herald.

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Travelling - Just over half of the visitors for the exhibition were locals, with the remainder travelling interstate and even overseas to see it.

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New national record - Minister for Tourism and Major Events Louise Asher said King Tut set a new national record.

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Artefacts - Artefacts from Tut's tomb and the temples of his ancestors from the 18th dynasty were on display for the first King Tut exhibition in Melbourne.

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18th Dynasty - King Tut became the Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt at the age of nine or ten.

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Reign - Although it is unknown, it is said that he reigned for about nine years before his death.

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Howard Carter - British archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter discovered King Tutakhamun's tomb in Cairo in 1922.

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Sarcophagus - In 1923, after a few months of cataloguing, Carter finally unsealed the doorway and discovered the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun.

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Valley of Kings - Known for being one of the best preserved Pharaoh's tomb that was found in the Valley of Kings, it was the biggest discovery of Carter's time.

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Order of the Nile - Carter received the Order of the Nile, third class, by King Fuad I of Egypt in 1926 for his findings.

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