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CAIRO, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has officially re-opened Cairo's Museum of Islamic Art, marking the end of an eight year $10 million restoration project.
The museum will be opened to the public at the beginning of next month allowing visitors to view 25 galleries containing more than 2,500 artifacts, Middle East Online said Sunday.
The museum is considered to be the largest of its kind in the world the report said.
Exhibits include a gold-inlaid key to the Kaaba, the massive building that houses the black stone in the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca, and the oldest Islamic dinar ever found, dating back to the year 697
Rare manuscripts of the Koran are also on display as well as Ottoman-era ceramics and ancient instruments used in the sciences of astronomy, chemistry and architecture.
The 1903 building in central Cairo was originally built to house and protect the country's rich heritage from looters of antiquities.
Saturday's opening of the museum came during the first week of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan.
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