Early morning and you can see why the River Nile is considered Egypt's lifeblood
It's a fertile strip of cool green in a hot desert country
Half an hour's drive away and the landscape turns lunar desolate unearthly
But this is the Valley of the Kings and here the treasures are out of sight
And
Like always everything exciting happens underground, doesn't it?
This is a very mysterious place
Perhaps most mysterious is tomb 62 the burial chamber of Egypt's youngest pharaoh. King. Tutankhamen
The only royal tomb to be found full of priceless artifacts
And that was the most important the discovery ever happened in history
Tutankhamun lived around three and a half thousand years ago
But it was only 82 years ago that he was found by British archaeologist Howard Carter
Ever since there's been speculation of why the boy King died, so young
speculation that he was murdered for his crown
It's one of the most enduring mysteries of all time
But this year using modern science, dr
Zahi Hawass says the pharaoh secrets have finally been revealed. Do you get tired of coming to visit King Tut?
I love kickback man. You only need to descend a hundred meters to travel so far back in time
Inside this golden casket lies the mummy of Tutankhamun
We looked at his face
That was the best moment in my life when you first looked into that young place
Were you convinced you were investigating a murder mystery, of course
I was just like a detective
To have the face I feel that my heart was actually
Trembling and I felt for the first time the magic of this game
Ever since the discovery of his tomb in 1922
Tutankhamun has captivated us
he was found with more than 5000 treasures giving the modern world and enchanting glimpse into an incredibly wealthy and
sophisticated ancient
Civilization but until now very little has been known about King Tutankhamun himself about the young man
behind the golden mask
In January this year, dr. Hawass and his team set about getting her to know King Tut what did he look like?
How old was he when he died and most intriguingly, how did he die?
Why do you think it was so important to solve this mystery?
It was so important because you came from Australia all the way here for King Tut
Everyone I received letters from young people in the United States and Australia
age of nine
telling me they want to be like me and
archaeologist but the only thing they want to know is a lot King Tut how he died and this why I became very
Interested to be the detective
Archaeologist to solve the problem of King Tut and to find out a lot about his life and his death
The plan was to use the latest technology a CT scanner and computers to solve
What is perhaps history's oldest murder the moment goes inside?
But to get Tutankhamun to reveal his secrets first
They had to reveal him to come face to face with this royal mummy
You take the lid of the coffin off with of the lived and reported. Sure
yeah, and after that I was like this and after that looking inside and
the face of the mummy was covered then I took it out, you know as if
You you know in this lab you nights when?
the this guy's meeting the sternum is trying to take
The thing the veil out of her face and see her face that exactly what I felt
But you know, sometimes I try to explain it to people I couldn't it's a moment of magic
He looks like a very nice young man and I iced it to him
But without you know and hearing me you are the one who cause trouble to everyone. No one knows anything about you
I'm here to find out things that will be announced the people for the first time about you is a key
As head of Egypt's Department of Antiquities
Dr. Hawass knows a moment in history when he sees one and so he invited National Geographic to capture the excitement
You know I dream for a year
I went to sleep and every day I dream about seeing the face of ding dong
Italian filmmaker brand Aquila Chi directed the documentary, you know
the moment we saw the face of Kim that
There was
Very big possibility was the oldest murder case and you know, everybody was saying he got a blow to the head
For me I was worried will dr
Abbas be able to discover what give him that I mean there was a lot of chance that we will not discover
Over the years Brando has made dozens of films in exotic locations, but now he's lost his heart to Egypt
He found it impossible not to get caught up in the drama, especially when it came to moving this precious piece of history
the finest finger ball is when they got
The King out of the sarcophagus on the coffin the head walk out basically 300-meter to the cat scan in that moment
That was working you could see in their face that no one wanted to be the guy that we come famous to let drop that
On the ground they were so careful
Some people were really attacking saying why do you take the mummy heart? Why do you do this? No one really understood the science
How it's very important to do science and eternity how this is very important for history and in the same time
This is the first time that the Egyptian team is actually doing
Yeah, that's it who put the money here the hit was her the next were the decide we pushed through the bottom the
Money went inside and the Machine
Bom Bom Bom taking all this images
It took scientists just half an hour to scan Tutankhamun's money to collect
1700 3d images just 30 minutes to virtually bring back to life
Someone who's been dead for three and a half thousand years
You know it shows Italy a detailed everything actually
More details and is why the city scan machine you go inside the body?
What the CT scan revealed was amazing but so mortal for a pharaoh
he was 19 only 5 foot 6 tall that's
168 centimeters and it's likely he was in pain from an impacted wisdom tooth
But beyond that he was in good Nick. He was healthy well-fed
Talk I don't really have anything to show that me
So for the enemy he suffered he did not suffer from any diseases at all
So why then did this young healthy King died four years
The theory has been one of political intrigue that this boy who controversially became Pharaoh at nine
Was murdered by a blow to the head the CT scan proved the theory wrong
There's no evidence of optimal to the back of the head
There is no indication of a foul play it looks it down
as we would say
If not murder and disease what and why so suddenly
again, the CT scan pinpoints the most likely cause of death an
Accident King Tutankhamun's left leg was broken
Allowing an infection to take hold and kill him
the new
Evidence that we have on the CT scan machine proving actually that King Tut had this accident
One day before he died one day one day before he died and we can see the fracture
that the mummification
Material is inside means that he had an infection and he died because of that
It's same speed has always been a killer possibly wiping out a pea plating Pharaoh and
This golden chariot found buried with him could have been his own mobile
This could be the charge
That actually kicked that film down from it and had the accident and our next day
He died could have a just been out joyriding and boy, it can be enjoy riding or hunting
Could you imagine if if the young king killed himself because he was just a young man going too fast
It can happen to anyone. It happens to young men. Today's lesson it
Considering that you started out
Investigating a murder mystery to discover that it wasn't murder was that disappointing it to begin with?
Of course was a ninety clannish the blow to the head would be something much more spectacular
I'm more happy like this. I am romantic
I think I'm happy to know that other Egyptian didn't kill Kim that you know that Kinta died but was not
betrayed by his own
people
You can't come to this place and not be impressed by the splendor of ancient Egypt
It's the greatest show on earth about a more heavenly place for these giant tombs
these pyramids are all about life after death and
This is one of Egypt's most iconic symbols the solid gold mask that covered King
Tutankhamun's face when he was mummified
You can smell on this
the smell of the bust the smell of thousands of years
In my opinion, maybe the best
Must-have piece of art ever created by the artist as someone has come face-to-face with King Tut
Does it look like him No?
According to dr. Hawass the golden mask is how King Tutankhamen wanted to look in the afterlife
For his more earthly appearance. Again CT imaging gives the clues
It's from these the facial reconstruction
Artists work their magic and bring King Tut back to life
We have many faces of many statues about this King, but we never actually
Saw his face now. We can know him we can see him
We can know everything about him and that's why I believe that science and archeology became very important to us now
From his treasures we know in life
Tutankhamun was a sportsman. He enjoyed wine and beer and loved his wife Arkana salmon
They also tell us that in death he was incredibly wealthy
All this and more was found buried with the young king to enjoy in the afterlife
King Tutankhamun's started his quest for immortality
In this tomb three and a half thousand years later with the help of science
Perhaps he's found it for now. We know what he looks like. This is Tutankhamun
Finally a face to go with the name
The 19 year old Pharaoh whose spectacular life ended so suddenly and in such a teenage way
Is there any chance that by solving the mystery of?
Tutankhamun that you take away some of his magic
No
I tell you we increase the damask and when I did announce the discovery of the CT scan I
Said the case. Maybe it's closed because you cannot know more than this but the magic will continue the magic of
Tutankhamun will never stop at all
He lives forever in his forever and he lives in our hearts and our hearts will remember this man forever
Because it is the greatest discovery ever happened in our College
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