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NARRATOR: Tutankhamun's
spectacular treasures.

Now, for the first time
since they were discovered,

all 5,398 objects
are being brought together

in a new $1 billion museum.

This will be the first
time many of them have
been seen for a century.

SALIMA: Look
at the horse, look at the
horse, look at the horse!

NARRATOR: Scientists have
been using the latest imaging
and forensic technology

to unlock long buried
mysteries to reveal
the man behind the mask.

CHRIS: So many tiny
details are visible again.

NARRATOR: And one treasure
has caused more speculation
over the years than any other.

Tutankhamun's death mask.

NAUNTON: Some scholars have
begun to suggest that this
may not belong to him at all.

NARRATOR: Now, who the
mask was actually made for
may no longer be a mystery.

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The Valley of the Kings.

The sacred burial ground of
ancient Egypt's pharaohs.

For centuries, archaeologists
have explored these tombs.

But each one they entered
was stripped bare by grave
robbers in search of gold.

Every tomb, except one.

On November 26th, 1922,
archaeologist Howard Carter
broke into that long-forgotten

tomb to make the
greatest archeological
discovery of all time.

He found the breathtaking
treasures of Tutankhamun.

Ever since, the world has
marveled at the royal splendor
of this young king's tomb.

And the most famous treasure
of all is the death mask.

-Tutankhamun's
mask is an icon.

And I think part of it is
because it is made of solid
gold and a lot of people get

wowed by that,
as well as by the beauty
of the craftsmanship

and also by the elegance
and the expression of the face.

NARRATOR: Crafted
from 22 pounds of gold,

this priceless object
is known throughout the world.

But speculation has
always swirled around this
3,000-year old treasure with

some experts claiming
the mask may never have
been made for Tutankhamun.

Now, the opening of a
major new museum offers
Egyptologists a unique

opportunity to assess
everything from the
tomb as never before.

And the world-famous death
mask has undergone the most

intensive
forensic examination ever.

It will answer once and
for all if this is the
mask of Tutankhamun.

The Cairo Museum
has been the home of the
death mask ever since it was

discovered a century ago.

And to see how the mask
was documented when it
was first discovered,

Egyptologist Chris Naunton
is stepping back in time.

-Wow.

NARRATOR: Hidden in the
bowels of the museum
is a 100-year-old book,

that details every
single object found
in Tutankhamun's tomb.

It's Howard Carter's
original excavation log.

-Huh. Wow. This is it.

This is the beginning
of the record.

-Yeah.
-And so this is the
first thing he recorded.

Shrine outermost. 6064.

-Yeah.
-Can I, can I turn the page?

NARRATOR: These
pages, barely turned for a
century, reveal that over

5,000 objects were taken from
the tomb, but only a third
have ever been seen in public.

-That's
the death mask.
What does he say?

'Mask of mummy,
beard and necklace.'

-Yes.
-Wow, there it is.

The most famous archaeological
object from the ancient
world; mask of mummy 60672.

NARRATOR: And now,
decades after its discovery,
the mask is about to start

a new chapter in life.

In a high security operation,
the entire contents of
Tutankhamun's tomb are

heading to a brand-new home.

15 years in the making and
at a cost of $1 billion,

the massive Grand Egyptian
Museum is rising up in
the desert outside Cairo.

The huge array of items
arriving, show how much this
young pharaoh took to the

grave when he died
at the age of 19.

-Ideally, once you
die, you go and live forever,
and therefore you need

everything that
you needed in this life.

And if you're a king
you had a lot of stuff.
Fantastic.

This is a scepter,
which maybe he would have
held or maybe someone else

would have
walked before him with.

NARRATOR: There's
everything from mummified
food for the afterlife.

-Ooh nice.

NARRATOR: To the childhood
belongings of the boy who
became the head of a

powerful empire when
he was only nine.

-This is some sort of a
seat with a foot stool.

Little bottom of,
little bottom of Tut. Aw.

He needed all of the stuff
he used in daily life, but
he also needed a lot of

religious, magical things
that would help him go from
this world to the next.

So this is why his tomb is
just exploding with objects.

NARRATOR: The most
important of those magical
objects was the death mask.

This golden portrait,
a clear likeness of
Tutankhamun, was vital.

It was how he would be
recognized in the afterlife.

As the thousands of
burial goods, from the
sacred to the mundane,

are gathered together in
the new museum, there's a
chance for new information

about all these
objects to be uncovered.

-Layers and layers and layers
of information are coming out.

Not just because objects
are being examined in detail,

but also because
new technologies
can be applied to them.

NARRATOR: Scientific
advances beyond the wildest
dreams of Howard Carter,

are allowing the
contents of the tomb to
be forensically examined,

some for the first time.

And what's become clearer,
is that Tutankhamun's
massive royal burial

did not go according to plan.

-Perhaps things were
not done exactly as
they should have been.

Perhaps they were
done in a hurry.

NARRATOR: The
origin of some of the
most magnificent objects

in the tomb is in doubt.

And some have now even
suggested that the
most famous of all the

pharaoh's treasures,
his death mask,

may not have originally
belonged to him.

-Was the mask created
for Tutankhamun
or for someone else?

NARRATOR: Could it be true,

that this iconic
death mask was never
intended for Tutankhamun?

It's inlaid with thousands
of fragments of colored glass
and semi-precious stones.

Lapis lazuli from Afghanistan
fills the eyebrows...

Red carnelian from India
sets off the garland...

And the eyes are formed
from Turkish obsidian.

According to ancient
Egyptian burial law,

this whole mask had
to be ready in a startlingly
short amount of time.

Little more than
two months was allowed from
the moment of death until

a body was sealed in its tomb.

And that has raised
doubts about the mask.

-The priesthood and the
craftsmen who were involved in
preparing the burial equipment

would only have had 70 days,
and that's the length of
time it takes to prepare

the body for burial, in
which to create material
like this death mask.

And some people would
say that 70 days is not
long enough to create

an object as fine as this.

In which case, the only way
it could have ended up
among the burial equipment

of Tutankhamun was if it
was already available.

Perhaps having been
made for somebody else.

NARRATOR: Over recent years
speculation has mounted that
the death mask originally

belonged to Tutankhamun's
stepmother, Nefertiti.

People have wondered if
craftsmen, short of time,
could have rescued her mask

and replaced her face
with that of Tutankhamun.

At the new Grand
Egyptian Museum the
sheer number of objects

arriving in its store
rooms seems to add
weight to this theory.

It was a huge task for
the ancient Egyptians to
prepare a king's tomb.

-It's just incredible to
think that these things are
so old, they're so fragile.

But I mean the detail on
this is absolutely exquisite.

If you look at the open
work in this model shrine,
with the detail of a bull.

It's intimidating to be
this close to it almost.

NARRATOR: The volumes
are staggering.

Hundreds of arrows,
beds, sticks, even shoes.

-Ahh, beautiful, yeah.
-Smalls, smallest ones
we have.

-So these must have been
sandals made for Tutankhamun
when he was a young child.

-Mmm. Yes, yes.
-How many sandals do
we have all together?

How many pairs do you know?

-All we received until
now about 30 pairs, yes...

-30 pairs already here.
And there's still more coming.

That's amazing.

Many of these objects have
never come out of storage,

they've never seen
the light of day.

And it's only now therefore,
that we can really get a
sense of the full extent um,

of the treasures that
Tutankhamun was buried with.

And it's really incredible
to think I mean, every
single one these items is

an exquisite work of
art in its own right.

NARRATOR: And all of
these thousands of objects
had to be either found

or created from scratch
in just two months before
being transported to the tomb.

NARRATOR: Tutankhamun's burial
site lies 400 miles south of
Cairo's Grand Egyptian Museum,

in the Valley of the Kings.

Chris Naunton has come
to these desert hills to see
where all the treasures from

Tutankhamun's tomb were first
gathered over 3,000 years ago.

They lay here until the
archaeologist Howard Carter
first discovered the long,

hidden entrance to the
young pharaoh's tomb.

NAUNTON: Even though
I must have been here
dozens of times now,

it's still a thrill to
come down that descending
passageway every time.

And it's difficult not to try
to imagine what it must have
been like for Howard Carter

coming into this tomb, finding
it absolutely chock-full of
this incredible assemblage

of material of the
finest quality, more or less
exactly as it had been left

3,000 years ago.

NARRATOR: The tomb was
so full it took Carter and
his team ten years to remove

the mass of treasures
and haul them across the
desert back to Cairo.

But as the
excavation progressed,

Carter was hampered
by the size of the site.

The burial chamber was so
cramped, the team could barely
fit around the gilded shrines.

It was soon clear
this was an unusual tomb
for such a powerful ruler

of ancient Egypt.

NAUNTON: Difficult to
escape the feeling that all
is not quite right here,

it's just not very
big, and it's just
not very complicated,

and the design is
really quite simple.

There's not very much wall
space at all and what there
is, is only half-decorated.

It feels more here
as though a space has been
hastily adapted to receive

the burial of a pharaoh.

NARRATOR: The fact
that Tutankhamun's tomb is
so small and badly prepared

has long
puzzled Egyptologists.

And at the Grand Egyptian
Museum there's evidence
that Tutankhamun's burial

fell short in other ways.

The latest shipment of objects
from the tomb has arrived.

It's a batch of shabtis.

Models of servants intended to
serve the pharaoh after death.

There were more than 400
of these small figures,

many of which have
never been displayed before.

Each one should look like
Tutankhamun, bearing the
same face as his death mask.

-Is funny with
the googly eyes.

NARRATOR: But they've
raised questions for
Egyptologist Salima Ikram.

SALIMA: Idea is that
they should all look
like Tutankhamun,

but you can clearly see
a lot of variety here.

So although the paint job's
similar, the faces are very
different coz that one's got a

pointy nose, that one's got
a differently shaped mouth.

Some faces are more
delicately formed and slightly
more feminine even than his,

others are a bit
more robust, so there is a
question as to whether some

of them might have
been made for someone else.

NARRATOR: It seems the
leader of an ancient empire
may have been buried with

objects never
intended for him.

-You do see re-use in tomb
material fairly frequently,
especially in the non-royal

corpus, but it seems a bit odd
to do this in a royal burial.

NARRATOR: The conservators at
the Grand Egyptian Museum are
now trying to establish how

much of Tutankhamun's
burial treasure originally
belonged to someone else.

Existing estimates
are staggering.

Over 1,000 items, a
quarter of the contents of
the tomb, are second hand.

-At this point it's very
difficult to be precise about
how many items might have been

made for someone else and
re-used because it's only now
that we are looking even more

closely at these artifacts,
and so we are slowly coming
in to the process of saying

'well this might belong to
someone else, and this clearly
belongs to someone else,'

so we really have to look
at each object individually
and very carefully.

NARRATOR: It seems the
tomb workers, pressed for
time, reused items to boost

Tutankhamun's store of
treasures for the afterlife.

That backs up evidence
already gathered, of what
seems like a botched burial.

NARRATOR: Away from
Cairo at the Griffith
Institute in Oxford,

England there are
more clues that shortcuts
were taken in putting

together Tutankhamun's tomb.

Chris Naunton has come
to study the original notes
Howard Carter made as he first

assessed the king's
burial chamber.

NAUNTON: This absolutely
incredible drawing, which was
made by Carter himself is a

kind of a plan view of
the assemblage of shrines,
sarcophagus and coffins that

were found in the burial
chamber in the tomb.

NARRATOR: Carter carefully
noted how Tutankhamun's
body bearing his death mask,

was interred in three
coffins placed one inside
the other like Russian dolls.

The coffins were then encased
in a stone sarcophagus inside
a set of gilded shrines.

In theory, they should
have fitted perfectly
inside one another.

But Carter found otherwise.

-When he had removed
the coffins from inside the
sarcophagus he began to notice

that something wasn't quite
right and as he says here,

'the top edge of the
feet of the lid had been
chipped away in places.

They had been
too high to allow the
lid of the sarcophagus to

be placed on the sarcophagus.'

it seems the coffin was too
big for the sarcophagus and

it wasn't possible
to place the lid down.

Carter was beginning to
record these anomalies and
to recognize that there was

something a little bit
strange about the way this
had been put together.

NARRATOR: Tutankhamun, the
head of a powerful empire,
was given an under-sized

sarcophagus that couldn't
hold his outer coffin.

And the middle coffin
raises more questions.

Discrepancies on the coffin's
name plate, or cartouche,

have intrigued
Egyptologist Aiden Dodson.

He suggests Tutankhamun
wasn't just surrounded by
secondhand possessions,

he was even buried in
someone else's coffin.

-First of all,
the middle coffin is
heavily inlaid in glass,

completely unlike the other
two, which are basically
a pure gold appearance.

Second, there's some of
the inscriptions have the
cartouche of the king,

which is sunk a little
bit too deep into the surface
than one would have expected.

It looks like the original
cartouche has been cut out
and a new one inserted.

And the final thing is
the face, which is not the
face of Tutankhamun at all.

The cheeks are much wider
and it's also the jaw is
rather squarer as well;

a much more sort of,
slightly more pugnacious
looking individual.

NARRATOR: It seems the second
coffin, one of the most
important items in the tomb,

may have been recycled.

It had someone
else's face on it.

And this isn't a one-off.

Even the precious gold bands
used to bind Tutankhamun's
mummified body,

shows signs of another name.

Chris Naunton has a
rare opportunity to see
if he can identify who,

before these bands are
moved to the new museum.

-I've never seen the
underside of this band before
but, what's really striking

straight away as soon as it's
been turned over, is that
there are cartouches on this

side, which are not present on
the other side, um, it's quite
difficult to read in this light

and um, I'm looking at the
inscriptions side-on, but I
can see a scarab beetle

and three plural strokes and
I think, next to the scarab
beetle there is an ankh sign,

which is a kind of
a loop and then a little
sort of cross underneath,

we sometimes know it as the
key of life, in which case
this is the name (inaudible).

Which is one of the names
used by a pharaoh about
whom we know very little,

but it'sefinitely
not Tutankhamun.

NARRATOR: Yet again,
one of Tutankhamun's most
personal burial goods is taken

from a previous pharaoh.

The evidence is
coming together.

Tutankhamun was interred
in an undersized tomb.

And many of his other burial
goods, now being examined at
the Grand Egyptian Museum,

were re-used.

The case for the iconic
death mask being recycled,
is getting stronger.

Now experts are searching
for the final proof.

NARRATOR: Cairo.

The home of
Tutankhamun's death mask
since its discovery.

For a century, the mask
has been drawing admirers
from around the world.

But recently speculation
about the true origins of the

mask has become
increasingly intense.

-In the last couple of
years some scholars have begun
to suggest that actually,

this may not belong to him at
all, or it may not originally
have been made for Tutankhamun

and there are several
reasons for thinking this.

First of all, the gold that
was used to model the face,
and we are sure that this is

the face of Tutankhamun,
is of a different caliber
from the gold that's used

in the rest of the mask.

As if the face
was modelled separately
perhaps at a later time.

NARRATOR: The theory that
the original face of the mask
was cut out and replaced

by a portrait
of Tutankhamun
has gained popularity.

And Egyptologists have
noticed other signs that could
show the mask is secondhand.

-The cartouche, which includes
the hieroglyphic signs,
which spell out the name

Tutankhamun seems
to have been altered as if
perhaps originally it read

a different name,
a name that was not
that of Tutankhamun.

NARRATOR: Queen Nefertiti is
thought to be the likely
previous owner of the mask.

Yet all the theories
about the true origins
of the mask have remained

no more than speculation.

Until now.

In a recent ground-breaking
development,
leading conservator,

Christian Eckmann, gained
the opportunity to study
this 3,000-year-old treasure.

It was the first time
that permission had been
granted to examine the

mask in such depth.

-Being entrusted with such
a wonderful job also means
a great responsibility.

It's a unique chance to
study such an iconic object

and of course
the pressure you have

is not the pressure, which
is put by others on you,
but your own pressure.

You want to
achieve the best results
and it's really a single

opportunity in lifetime.

NARRATOR: While Christian
Eckmann's work should
definitively settle the

origin of the death mask,
researchers at the new
museum have been digging

into some of the other
puzzles from the tomb.

Even objects specially
made for the pharaoh
seem to have problems.

Museum director, Tarek
Tawfik, has been inspecting
one of Tutankhamun's gilded

ceremonial beds that
has recently arrived
at the museum.

-When working on it, one has
discovered that there are
different signs on the bed.

These signs have
started a vivid discussion

between Egyptologist about
how these beds were assembled.

NARRATOR: It's believed the
inscriptions on the base
of the cow bed refer to

the lion god, which
suggests that parts from two
different beds were mixed up

by workers in the tomb.

-They had to deal with the
situation that the corridor
leading to the tomb of

Tutankhamun was quite narrow.

So the pieces had
to be disassembled and then
reassembled inside the tomb.

Should the beds have been
assembled incorrectly this
would tell us that the people

were under time pressure.

This might have
led to mistakes.

NARRATOR: It's further
evidence the tomb workers were
battling against the clock.

But why does Tutankhamun's
burial seem so much
more hurried than that

of other pharaoh's?

Away from the
museum Chris Naunton wants
to see if Tutankhamun's body

can provide an answer.

The pharaoh's mummy,
wearing its golden death mask,

was first revealed
when Howard Carter
opened the inner coffin.

It took him three years
of painstaking excavation
to reach this point,

and he was shocked
at what he found.

-No Egyptian should have
been mummified like this let
alone an Egyptian pharaoh.

It was quite normal
for there to be an
incision on the torso,

which would have
allowed for the removal
for the internal organs,

which is a part of the
mummification process but in
this case that incision is

much too big and it's in
the wrong place as well.

And also most unusually of
all perhaps, the heart, which
wasn't one of the organs that

should have been removed.

It was essential that that
remained inside the body, this
had been removed in the case

of Tutankhamun's mummy.

So clearly this was not
a standard mummification.

NARRATOR: The labs
at the museum are steadily
filling with more and

more artifacts
from ancient Egypt.

Yet no other mummy in
the collection has been
found without a heart.

It was seen as the center of
intelligence and emotion, and
essential to life after death.

Without his heart,
Tutankhamun would have been
sent into eternity unable

to think or feel.

NARRATOR: Clues to why
Tutankhamun was buried without
his heart could be resting

in the body of the
ancient nobleman, Yuya.

SALIMA: He's amazing.

This is why some of us do
Egyptology because I mean you
actually get to see them and

know them in a much more
intimate and personal way.

And it is
extraordinarily moving.

NARRATOR: Yuya was the great
grandfather of Tutankhamun
and his perfectly kept mummy

is in stark contrast to
the young king.

-You can see how beautifully
he's preserved and although
his skin is darkened by oils

and resins it's nothing like
the body of Tutankhamun, which
is glooped over with masses of

resin and oil, so it is
a very nice counterpoint and
comparison with Tutankhamun.

And now Mr. Moman, maybe we can
see how that evisceration cut.

NARRATOR: Like
most ancient Egyptian
bodies Yuya has a slit at

the side of his abdomen.

-There we go.
That's what we want to see.

This is the evisceration cut
and from here the embalmer
would put in his hand

and pull out
the internal organs.

So this is a normal incision,
which is over the left flank.

But Tutankhamun had
a completely odd incision that
went from the belly button out

in a sort of diagonal,
which no one else has.

And so then his internal
organs were removed
higgledy-piggledy possibly

including the heart.

NARRATOR: Tutankhamun's
botched mummification has lead
Egyptologists to speculate

where and how he died.

If he died suddenly, away
from home, it could have taken
weeks to bring his body back

to the Valley of the Kings.

-This could mean that he
was mummified somewhere away
from the Nile Valley in an

unexpected way because
he didn't have any experts
with him who really knew

what they were doing.

NARRATOR: Because Tutankhamun
died young at age 19,

it's likely preparations had
not been made for his burial.

And that meant there would
have been much less time than
usual to create his death mask

and gather together his
thousands of burial goods.

The man in charge of where
and how the young king was
buried was his successor,

the pharaoh Ay.

And his tomb, in the Valley
of the Kings, is in sharp
contrast to the burial site

he chose for Tutankhamun.

NAUNTON: One thing that
strikes you straight away,
in contrast to the tomb of

Tutankhamun, is that in
all aspects this tomb is
just grander it's bigger.

Those passageways are wider,

it makes much more of,
sort of a grand spectacle
of the sarcophagus

in the center here.

This feels very much like
the burial chamber that
would be fit for a pharaoh,

it's the right size the
decorative elements are here,
the care and attention spent

on that decoration by the
painters is really obvious.

The scene of the pharaoh
hunting in the marshes is
very striking for its detail

and particularly for the
beautiful way in which
its birds are painted.

NARRATOR: Tutankhamun's tomb
is half the size of Ay's.

Much smaller than most
other royal burial sites
in the Valley of the Kings.

-It was absolutely standard
for pharaohs to begin
construction of their tombs

more or less as soon as they
began their reign, and so for
Tutankhamun he would have had

a tomb underway and he
might well have had ideas
about what he would've wanted.

NARRATOR: Ay's tomb has the
grandeur that Tutankhamun
would have expected.

So why was Tutankhamun's
burial site so small and his
funeral so lacking in care?

-People have suggested that
this tomb was originally being
prepared for Tutankhamun,

but it was usurped by Ay as
part of his power grab if you
like when there was a vacuum

and a vacancy on the throne
at the end of Tut's reign.

NARRATOR: Tutankhamun
died without heirs.

It seems likely that a
high-ranking official, but not
a member of the royal family,

took his chance
to seize power.

He may have usurped the dead
king's tomb and forced him
into an undersized burial site

with goods taken from
previous pharaohs.

Now, new
scientific tests can tell
us if Ay inflicted one

final indignity on Tutankhamun.

Did he send the young
pharaoh to his grave in
a borrowed death mask?

NARRATOR: The Egyptian
Museum in Cairo.

The dark halls will soon be
emptied of their treasures
as the antiquities are

transferred to the new
Grand Egyptian Museum.

And the last piece from
Tutankhamun's collection
to be moved will be

the iconic death mask.

One of the most revered
objects in the world.

-Face to face.

NARRATOR: Since
2015 leading conservator
Christian Eckmann has carried

out an intensive
investigation of the mask.

-Have you seen that?

Within the eye, left
and right, they have
eight tiny veins,

which make the whole
eye so lifelike.

It's the attention to
details I love so much.

NARRATOR: His privileged
access is allowing him to
piece together exactly how the

mask was made before it's
moved to the new museum.

For the first time, expert
analysis can answer the
question that's been hanging

over the mask for years.

Was it made for Tutankhamun
or someone else?

Eckmann started by
studying the controversial
name plate, or cartouche.

-So we are looking here
at the royal cartouche of
the mask of Tutankhamun,

which is placed near
the shoulder on the
left side of the mask.

And in fact you see
some suspicious or unusual
traces, like the line here...

this one here, which cannot
be interpreted so easily.

NARRATOR: It's been suggested
these marks show Tutankhamun's
name was engraved over the top

of another name, that of his
stepmother Queen Nefertiti.

But Eckmann's research points
in a different direction.

-One has to understand
you cannot create a mask of
this size without connecting

different gold sheets together
to the whole mask itself.

And the cartouche is running
over two parts of gold sheets,
which have been connected

exactly in this
position or joined together.

And that is what you see
here one of those seams.

NARRATOR: The supposedly
re-worked cartouche
is simply evidence of parts

of the mask
being joined together.

But there's something
else that's puzzled
some Egyptologists

for the last few years.

The color of the gold
in the face is different
from the rest of the mask.

One theory that's gained
traction is the suggestion
that the huge time pressure

caused by the young
king's sudden death meant the
craftsmen had to cut corners.

So they inserted a portrait
of Tutankhamun into
something previously made.

As part of his investigation
Christian used a powerful
x-ray, known as XRF,

to analyze the
content of the gold.

He wanted to see if the
various parts of the mask
came from different sources.

-We measured more than
a 100 dots or points
all over the mask.

The result was clear
they used many sheets of
the same gold composition

that also includes the face,

so it looks to me
very unlikely that the face
could have been changed in

antiquity and replaced.

NARRATOR: Eckmanan proved
that every part of the mask
was made from the same gold.

That strongly suggests the
entire mask was made at the
same time but using different

techniques to give the
gold a variety of colors.

And Eckmann found other
evidence that the mask
is a one-off original.

Clues that came from
the stone and glass
inlays around the face.

-If the face would have been
cut out and replaced after
the mask has been finished

already, it could not have
been soldered in again

without damaging
or even destroying

the glass inlays nearby
because they cannot stand
such high temperatures.

I personally think this
mask was for Tutankhamun.

It was designed for him
and it was used for him.

NARRATOR: Eckmann's
results seem to be
definitive and mark the end

of years of controversy.

Tutankhamun's fabulous
death mask was made for
him alone in just 70 days.

An astonishing feat for
ancient Egyptian craftsmen.

-It is one of the most
beautiful portraits
in the world.

And from the point of
view of a conservator
studying technology,

it's really impressive to
see what they were able to do.

I would doubt
that someone today could
create such a masterpiece

and it's really important to
note in such a short time.

NARRATOR: Tutankhamun was
laid to rest wearing a death
mask made for him alone,

despite his rushed funeral
and less than royal tomb.

Now the mask will take
center stage at the
Grand Egyptian Museum.

And a new, imposing
mausoleum to the young
pharaoh will be created.

The mask and the treasures
of his tomb, will ensure
Tutankhamun remains known

throughout the world.

-It's my privilege to work
so closely with these pieces

and to feel that we are
coming so close to

three thousand and
a half years of history.

It's like
touching Tutankhamun,

the touch that will
keep it for generations to come.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR: More than 3,000
years ago a young pharaoh
was hurriedly buried

in a small tomb,
surrounded by
borrowed goods,

in the hope that his
memory would soon be forgotten.

But in a final irony it was
Tutankhamun's humble tomb
that allowed the treasures,

crowned by his golden death
mask, to lie unnoticed until

their discovery
thousands of years later.

CHRIS: Cigarette lighter.

That face which we know so
well from the tomb of Tut
is, is here everywhere,

little statues, it's on
T-shirts, it's on little
jars, these silver plates,

everywhere you look.

NARRATOR: And his golden death
mask has made Tutankhamun's
face the best known of any

person from the ancient world.

-Ok wow, so that's a
kind of, a kind of, yeah
okay, so it's kind of, kind of

Tutankhamun's death mask on a
sort of neo-classical column.

That's pretty crazy.

Every Egyptian wanted to
be remembered, they wanted
their name to live on,

maybe it would be too
much to ask for their
face to be remembered,

but in the case of King Tut
this is overwhelming success.

It's very beautifully done.

Tutankhamun would be
pleased about this.

He'll be very pleased
about this one.

Thank you very much, thank
you very much, very good
doing business with you.

Thank you, you have
a beautiful shop.

NARRATOR: The treasures of
his tomb catapulted the young
pharaoh into more fame than he

could ever have imagined.

Tutankhamun may have been
buried to be forgotten, but
instead his memory is destined

to live forever.

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