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King Tut, the Golden Ferrer.

Behind the Gilded Mask lies one of history's great riddles.

Why did this boy king die so young?

Now, a scientific team will examine Tut as no one

ever has, using state-of-the-art CAT scan technology.

Their goal... to unravel the mystery of Tutankhamun's death.

We thought he'd been murdered.

But what's the real cause of his death?

And how is this mummy connected to a series of even stranger deaths years later?

For almost a century, experts have dissected the evidence.

Books and movies have guessed at what really happened to Tut.

Now, a high-tech forensic investigation delivers answers.

Unveils what the king really looked like on the day

he died and solves the mystery of King Tut's curse.

Egypt, the Cairo Museum.

A steel fence comes down to make way for a powerful new investigative tool.

A mobile state-of-the-art CAT scanning machine.

A high-tech device to help solve an ancient mystery.

The death of Egypt's most famous king.

The facts of his case are limited.

We know he died unexpectedly.

We know his body is riddled with fractures.

X-rays taken in 1968 show evidence of an apparent

blunt force injury to the back of the head.

In 2002, a group of investigators concluded that Tut had been murdered.

But in spite of these claims, the evidence has always been incomplete.

Because King Tut is more than just a historical figure.

He's also a legend.

The sheer splendor of his life has fueled myths about the

pharaoh and blurred the line between fact and fiction.

Now, a group of forensic pathologists will destroy the myths

and reveal the truth through the power of the CAT scan machine.

A CAT scan is a three-dimensional X-ray.

It takes multiple high-resolution pictures, then compiles them to create 3D images.

Precise down to half a millimeter.

These images will take us inside Tut's body, inside the

bones themselves, to decipher what happened and when.

It's a remarkable tool.

But to get the answers, they're going to need the body of the Cape.

Southern Egypt.

Through the waste of the Sahara, the Nile cuts a green swath.

A few miles west of the river.

In this wasteland, 3,500 years ago, Egyptian

royals began their quest for immortality.

The Valley of the Kings.

Here, they carved out more than 60 royal tombs.

Led by renowned Egyptologist, Dr. Zahi Hawass, an all-Egyptian team has come to

one of them to retrieve history's most famous corpse.

We are in the presence of a king.

And that's why we should look at him with respect.

He is an icon of the ancient world, a symbol of Egyptian power.

But we know so little about the man behind the golden mask.

Tut was just 9 years old when he rose to the throne.

He ruled Egypt for close to a decade.

A pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, 3,000 years ago.

To his people, he was half-man, half-god.

But until his discovery, Tut was unknown.

There is almost no record of his life anywhere in Egypt.

Except on the walls of his tomb.

Those walls tell us he was an avid hunter.

A young warrior king in battle.

They also show a man deeply in love with his

wife, Akhen Asaman, the daughter of Nefertiti.

But somehow, his life ended abruptly.

No one knows exactly why.

For the first time in decades, preparations

are underway to open the pharaohs sarcophagus.

But Tut's death isn't the only focus of this investigation.

Several other deaths, thousands of years later, have an eerie connection to the tomb.

The deadly fate of those who opened it.

They call it King Tut's Curse.

November, 1922.

A British archaeologist named Howard Carter is exploring the Valley of the Kings.

It is the find of a lifetime.

The first intact royal tomb ever discovered in Egypt.

But as the workers haul out artifacts, some wonder

if the archaeologists are desecrating the tomb.

It all starts with the canary.

Carter's pet has been adopted by the workmen for good luck.

But on the same day that Carter and his wealthy patron, Lord Carnarvon,

opened the tomb, workers discover the bird dead.

Killed, some say, by a cobra.

The symbol of the pharaohs.

A commentator in the London Times proclaims, the curse of the pharaoh has struck.

Six weeks after the official opening of the burial

chamber, Lord Carnarvon is found dead in his hotel room.

Then, one by one, others associated with the excavation start to die.

Carnarvon's brother from blood poisoning.

American railroad magnet Jay Gould.

And French Egyptologist Georges Benadite, who visited the crypt.

The legend of King Tuck's curse is born.

Over the years, a new curse myth has emerged.

The theory.

What if the curse wasn't magical, but biological?

If when Carnarvon entered the tomb, he stirred up something lethal.

Microorganisms that survived centuries in the darkness.

To test the truth of this theory, a team of experts, led by epidemiologist D.

Miller, is setting out across Egypt and around the world.

Their goal.

To find a sealed tomb.

A match for Tuck's own tomb 80 years ago.

Where they can sample the air and walls.

To see once and for all, if a biological curse could exist.

Inside King Tuck's tomb, the investigation

into the pharaoh's death is growing urgently.

Because of concerns about the condition of Tuck's mummy,

Hawass has only three hours to conduct the CAT scan.

As soon as the king leaves his sarcophagus, the clock starts ticking.

Inside, resting on a wooden tray, the covered remains.

This is the real Tut.

Not the image of the golden mask, but the mummy of a young man who died too soon.

When the cotton shroud is pulled back, it reveals something shocking.

The condition is very bad.

That just is completely damaged.

The hand is divided to pieces, and the only good condition is a face.

How did this happen?

1922, the Valley of the Kings.

As Carter descends into the earth, he has no idea he's found the tomb of a king.

It takes Carter weeks to explore the full extent of the tomb.

And to find another room packed with gold beyond.

A burial chamber with a huge gilded shrine almost filling the space.

Inside, three more lavish shrines.

Finally, a stone sarcophagus and a series of nested golden coffins.

The last cradles a mummy with a mask of solid gold.

A king resting in splendor.

Carter knows that there are valuable artifacts wrapped in the linen of the mummy.

But when they try to remove the body, they find it stuck to the coffin.

Oils and resin poured over the king in the final

death ritual have turned into a kind of glue.

The mummy won't budge.

Then, Dr. Douglas Derry, the man in charge of removing

tut from the coffin, turns to a drastic solution.

With a heated knife in hand, he starts to cut the body.

First Derry hacks off Tut's legs.

Then, trying to lever the torso free, he snaps Tut's

neck, leaving the head and mask stuck in place.

The pharaoh comes out of the coffin in pieces.

Unknown to the rest of the world, Carter's

team has mangled the remains of the boy king.

If anything could provoke a curse, this would have done it.

Inside the Cairo Museum, scientists are preparing

to scan the most famous mummy in the world.

But they've got to perfect their technique first.

The initial stem, a series of tests on other mummies.

The Egyptian radiologists will have only one shot at cat scanning king Tut.

And this machine has never been used on mummies before.

It's designed to scan the living, but now has

to be recalibrated to investigate the dead.

This child's mummy has rested in the Cairo Museum for years.

Her cause of death?

Unknown.

20 centuries after she died, it seems far-fetched that we could

learn more about what happened to this five-year-old girl.

Yet, would these images come solutions?

The line in the middle of the vertebrae, the

slight offset in the bones, is actually a crack.

This child suffered a broken neck.

If the CAT scan machine can illuminate these kinds of mysteries, it will also

rewrite Tut's story, tearing away the myths that surround him.

That same data will give us the first complete

picture of what Tut really looked like.

Elizabeth Danes is one of only a handful of paleoscalters.

For years, she's been recreating creatures from our past, giving us eerily precise

glimpses of ancient man, from Homo erectus to the Neanderthals.

Normally, she works from fossils, but this time she'll start with a digital

skull and put flesh on it, transforming Tut's

raw CAT scan data into the true face of the king.

The very first glimpse inside King Tut came in 1968.

A team from Liverpool University, led by Professor Argy Harrison,

x-rayed his body.

Their most surprising find was what looked like

a strange blood clot at the base of his skull.

This is within normal limits, but in fact it could have been caused by a hemorrhage

under the membranes overlying the brain in this region.

And this could have been caused by a blow on the back of the

head, and this in turn could have been responsible for death.

The discovery inspired a theory that Tut had

been murdered by a deliberate blow to the head.

The idea caught fire around the world.

But nearly 40 years later, Robert Connolly, the last surviving member of

Harrison's team, still has questions about those x-rays.

The x-rays that we've got good though they are, none of

these x-rays tells us anything about the cause of death.

If Tut and Carmen had been injured on the back of his head, it was perhaps a blood

clot, which in time could cause calcification of this membrane.

But from the x-ray there is no evidence of damage to the skull.

That doesn't mean to say there isn't any damage.

The CT scan will once again reveal once and for all

whether there is any damage to the back of the skull.

Another theory grew out of a second clue.

The chest x-rays are particularly interesting.

The sternum is missing, many of the ribs are missing, many of the ribs are broken.

It has been suggested that he might have been involved in

an accident, perhaps fell from a chariot, or from a horse.

That could have been cause of death.

The idea is plausible.

Paintings on the walls and the six chariots in

Tut's tomb all show that he loved to ride and hunt.

But of all the competing theories, the best circumstantial case supports murder.

Because 3,300 years ago, there was a very clear motive for killing the boy king.

Tut may have been the son or nephew of one of Egypt's most divisive leaders,

the Heretic Pharaoh, Akhenaten.

Akhenaten was a radical who destroyed the foundation of Egyptian society.

Along with his wife, the legendary Nefertiti, Akhenaten threw out the old

gods of Egypt and replaced them with a single deity.

The Aten, or some god, and he was hated for it.

Did those who despised him attempt to erase his heirs as well?

Did they kill Tut?

In the Valley of the Kings, the mobile CAT scan machine

is in place, and it's finally time for Tut to emerge.

I have been opening tombs and entering inside many things, but this moment for me

is very special really, because this king is very special to all of us.

For the first time since his discovery, Tut leaves his tomb,

rising up out of the earth, secrets hidden deep inside.

More than a thousand miles away in Northern England,

another mummy is also giving up secrets from its past.

Ground-breaking research at the University of Manchester may help solve the mystery

of the curse and identify what killed Carnarvon.

Scientists are collecting pure tissue samples

from more than a dozen Egyptian mummies.

A look at the results reveals a potential culprit.

It's toxic mold.

It's now clear that at least one thing in ancient tombs, mummies, can carry toxins.

The next step is to figure out whether the air itself could pose a risk.

The answer may lie 50 miles south of Cairo in the shadow of the very first pyramid.

Here, in Sakara, in an ancient royal cemetery, the investigators have gotten

word of a freshly opened tomb that's even older than Tut's.

They find a sealed sarcophagus.

If the air in the coffin is untouched by modern contaminants,

it could be a match for the atmosphere in Tut's tomb.

Keeping the seal intact, they begin sucking out a 2,000 year old air sample.

The results could give us a hint about what was in

the air, when Carnarvon and Carter opened Tut's tomb.

In the Valley of the Kings, they're on the

hunt for clues about a different kind of death.

But while Tut's mystery has been around for 3,000 years, Dr. Hawass and his team

now have less than 3 hours to come up with some answers.

What really killed him?

The evidence is locked inside his bones, specific clues

to confirm or rebut the theories of King Tut's passing.

Now, as the body moves through the scanner, the machine generates more than

1,500 images, each one a potential solution to his mystery.

But then, just as Tut is almost through, the computer sends a warning and crashes.

Fatal error.

They can't tell how much of their information is

lost or if they can get the computer working again.

They may be scientists, but even they have to wonder.

Just how far does Tut's curse extend?

The computer is overheating.

They have 30 minutes to cool the computer down or face a high-profile disaster.

A million-dollar project is now riding on this.

Back in Cairo, the quest to resolve the curse myth is going a lot better.

Though the scientists saw examples of mold in the tombs, they

are surprised that what they found is so potentially threatening.

Take the ancient air samples from the sealed sarcophagus.

They produced a dramatic change.

The resulting green means unsafe levels of ammonia gas.

They also found lower levels of formaldehyde and hydrogen sulfide.

Each of these, if found in enough quantity, can cause a range of problems,

burning in the eyes and nose, pneumonia-like symptoms.

At the most extreme, even death.

But is that what happened to Carnarvon?

Did similar microorganisms in Tut's tomb kill

him, and could toxic tombs kill anyone else?

For the Egyptian radiologists working on Tut, reality has turned ugly.

Halfway through the CAT scan of the king, a broken air

conditioner has caused the system to overheat and crash.

They restart the computer, and the images shimmer to life again.

The files bearing priceless data are perfect.

After months of preparation, a flood of images of

Tut none ever seen before morph onto the screen.

The story of King Tut is about to change, radically.

To help the experts analyze the data, and, above all, to give the forensic

artists more information about Tut's skull, the CAT scans

are sent back to Siemens in Germany for more processing.

Here, technicians turn the scans into high-resolution 3D pictures.

They add details like color, to show the different densities of bone and soft tissue.

Andreas Blaha and Siglinde Schur are specialized in 3D reconstructions.

They're mapping the body, preparing a catalog

of items for analysis by the experts in Cairo.

But as they work, they can't help but speculate.

As they build the images, a series of strange clues pops up.

Each one may be connected to Tut's death.

At the base of the skull, they see something unexpected.

A perfectly circular, coin-sized hole.

What did this?

The question of what really killed Tut is getting murkier by the minute.

And there are more possibly lethal anomalies.

An important clue bolsters the case for an accident.

It's a strange substance all around the ankle.

It's surrounding the leg to give fixation to both sides.

So this is maybe an early way of casting fractures.

A plaster cast might be proof that something happened to Tut's ankle prior to death.

The scans do show that Tut was probably in a great deal of pain at the end,

but not from a possible fracture.

Evidence in his jaw shows why.

Tut had a severely impacted wisdom tooth.

It's actually growing sideways.

The experts in Cairo will determine if it was infected.

Was the world's most famous king taken down by a toothache?

They find even stranger details in Tut's bizarrely shaped skull.

In sculpture and paintings, many royals from

Tut's period seem to have egg-shaped heads.

Experts always believed that was just artistic license.

A way to show that the royals were different from mere mortals.

But the CAT scan data seemed to confirm that art...

...imitated life.

Some believe that royal custom called for a child's

head to be bound and wrapped to shape it this way.

But the shape of Tut's head is just a curiosity.

They think the real story is on the inside.

The images reveal that some kind of resin was

poured into Tut's head during the embalming.

Locked inside that resin are bone fragments that may be connected to Tut's death.

It'll be up to the Egyptians to figure out how the

bones got there, or where they're from on Tut's skull.

The evidence may help prove that he suffered a blow to the head.

They suspect that's the case when the pictures

reveal the most suspicious evidence of all.

A thin black line on the back of the skull.

No one ever noticed this before.

Tut is a wreck.

A coin-sized hole in his head.

Multiple fractures.

An impacted and possibly infected wisdom tooth.

There are bone fragments inside his skull.

And what appears to be a four-inch long fracture in his cranium.

If one or more of these things didn't kill the young king, then what did?

In Cairo, a team of Egyptian specialists has

been working for two months analyzing the clues.

Led by radiologist Mervat Shafik of Cairo University,

the team is made up of Egypt's top forensic experts.

They've uncovered some basic facts.

That Tut was five feet six inches tall.

That he had no cavities.

And that he suffered no diseases.

They've made other finds.

These, even more intriguing.

To provide a second opinion on the discoveries, three international

consultants arrive at the Cairo Museum to join the Egyptian scientists.

Dr. Edward A.

Garter, a forensic pathologist.

And Dr. Paul Gosner, a radiologist.

Their specialty, paleopharynzics.

Deciphering the mysteries of ancient corpses.

Along with Dr. Frank Rooley, a paleopathologist from the University of

Zurich, they'll consult with the Egyptians

who are unraveling the Enigma of Tut's death.

It's the base of Tut's skull they're anxious to see first.

Looking for the blood clot from the 1968 x-ray.

The brain hemorrhage from the crushing blow.

It's the basis of the famous murder theory.

The international team is surprised when the Egyptians reveal something dramatic.

At the base of the skull, they have found nothing.

We all agree that we did not die because of the fracture of the skull.

There is no evidence of a blow to the head.

The consultants agree with the Egyptian finding.

There's no blood clot, no calcified base of the skull.

And so four decades of brain hemorrhage scenarios.

Forty years of murder mysteries are all mistaken.

It never happened.

Even the other supposed wound to the head.

The so-called fracture line that the German technicians

found at Siemens is something completely different.

It isn't really a fracture.

It is normal for a young person.

The line is really just the space between two

skull bones that haven't quite grown together.

It's proof of only one thing, Tut's youth.

We've now confirmed two things.

Tut was about 19 when he died.

And no one ever struck him in the head.

So what killed him?

The answer to that question will come later.

But in another part of Cairo, scientist D.

Miller is about to put the case of another mysterious death.

Lord Carnarvon's to rest.

What about the myth of the curse?

Tests showed that some tombs do have dangerous toxins inside.

Is that what actually killed Lord Carnarvon?

Miller thinks key evidence about the conditions in the tomb make that impossible.

As Carter and Carnarvon breached the wall of the anti-chamber,

Carter reported that they were hit by a rush of warm air.

A hot air wouldn't have come out in his face if that tomb hadn't been sealed.

I mean absolutely shrink-wrapped.

And according to Miller, while a handful of microorganisms could survive,

based on their research, there's almost no chance

lethal amounts could endure 3,000 years in such a tomb.

Based on the scientific findings, some tombs do harbor dangerous toxins.

In the right conditions, these tombs could become dangerous, potent enough to kill.

But that didn't happen in Tut's tomb.

In fact, given the sanitary conditions of the times, probably the safest place that

Lord Carnarvon could have been is in Tutent Commons' tomb.

The mystery isn't what killed Lord Carnarvon.

The mystery is what killed King Tutent Commons.

An investigation debunks the modern curse myth.

Now, the problem of an ancient curse remains.

Inside the CAT scan lab, the hunt continues for signs of fatal trauma.

First, the question of Tut's missing sternum and ribcage.

Some argued that Tut's broken ribs are proof of a fall.

But the ribs aren't cracked.

The situation now is that the ribs are really cut by sharp angle.

All neatly cut.

Frontal parts of the chest were cut very, very, very

clearly with a knife or another cutting instrument.

Even more importantly for the investigation.

The ribs look like they were cut after Tut's death.

But there's not enough evidence in the bones to say whether

the ribs were cut by the embalmers or Carter's team.

The wisdom tooth is next.

Resting on the lower sinuses, it no doubt caused him pain.

But there's no sign of abscess, no infection that might have poisoned his blood.

Then there's the strangely shaped head.

It wasn't a factor in his death.

But what could have caused the shape?

The scans revealed no evidence that anyone wrapped and bound Tut's head to shape it.

It looks bizarre, but measurements show it's just within normal limits.

Tut's weird skull was probably genetic.

The only thing it confirms is a family resemblance to Akhenaten.

The mysterious hole in the head is more perplexing.

The bone within the hole is pushed in like a pop-top can.

It seems like the perfect murder clue, evidence of a spear to the base of the skull.

But it's far more likely that it was drilled.

The Egyptians think the embalmers did it.

Many historians believe that the ancient priests rushed Tut's mummification.

But an Egyptian discovery proves that isn't true.

The embalming technique was very, very carefully done.

We see that they removed the brain through the nose, which is a well-established way.

But we guess that there was a second approach from the back as well.

That second approach was through the circular hole.

The proof?

The embalmers left a trail.

In the CAT scan, you can see embalming fluid

dripping down inside the hole just as it was poured.

This first analysis has rewritten Tut's story.

But there's still no cause of death in any of

the new finds, only hints of possible trauma.

But then they see something that appears irrefutable, evidence more dramatic by far.

It's a sharp break in Tut's left leg.

We have fractures.

Okay, we all agree about that.

Now, the difficult question.

Is it pre or postmortem?

The break is only one of dozens in Tut's body.

But this one may be connected to his death.

This isn't a mild break.

It's a violent one.

When the CAT scans pull back to a surface view, they can see two critical details.

The kneecap is missing.

The skin near the fracture appears torn away.

A-garter has seen these kinds of injuries before.

Violent injuries.

The fracture over the left knee is a typical fracture of young people who

practice sports or soldiers here in a battle.

It could be a violent scenario.

How did this happen?

And when?

The answers are in the wound itself.

We see into the fracture a wide substance.

And this substance is without dubbed the embalming material.

So we have to ask, why can't embalming material enter in a fracture?

Embalming liquid inside the fracture.

That means the fracture already existed during Tut's mummification.

It's a revelation.

For Dr. A-garter, this is absolute proof the fracture happened 3,000 years ago.

And historical evidence seems to bear out the forensics.

Derry wrote in his diary that the leg was damaged when they opened the coffin,

before they touched the mummy.

When Carter unwrapped the mummy's left leg, the kneecap, or patella, was already off.

Egyptian radiologist Ashraf Selim.

Patella lies exactly over the fracture.

So if cartoony opened the tomb found a loose patella,

so this most probably occurred because of the injury.

The same injury has caused the fracture.

We know the resin inside the fracture confirms that

the break happened before or during mummification.

So was it the embalmers who broke Tut's leg?

Or did it happen while he was alive?

And then they come upon the type of forensic evidence investigators dream of.

It doesn't look like much, just a strange

ball-shaped form inside the fracture itself.

But to these men, it's like a smoking gun.

According to doctors A.

Garter and Gosner, it's a sign of inflammation.

Evidence that the bones are beginning to alter in response to the injury.

This is caused by hemorrhage and inflammatory cells going into the tissue.

It's a reaction to the fracture itself.

And reactions only happen if you're alive.

Based on this, an embalming resin in the wound, Dr. Selim agrees.

This fracture has a peculiar appearance, a different appearance.

So we presume that the fracture occurred shortly before his death.

It's a major breakthrough, a turning point in the history of the boy king.

Tutankhamen suffered this blow during his lifetime.

But how did it happen?

A young king rides out over the desert, a royal teenager racing across the sands.

At high speed, a hole takes him down.

Tut hits so hard, one knee cap is fractured, the other torn completely off.

The young king is left in agony.

But the CAT scan evidence allows for another scenario as well.

The fracture is sharp, like it was from the next.

It looks like it came from the front.

And that's consistent with a battle wound.

Painting showed tutted war with at least two different enemies.

The Nubians in the south and the Hittites from the east.

Feared for both their tactics and their arms,

the Hittites were the first to work with iron.

The first to turn it into weapons.

The battle acts chief among them.

So picture a young king on his way to battle.

In the haze of combat, he is separated from his guards.

He finds himself face to face with a Hittite warrior.

So is it a battle that leaves him wounded?

A powerful blow to the leg?

Or a tragic accident?

Either way, racked with pain, he lies broken on the desert sands.

But is this wound enough to kill him?

Or was it something else?

The investigation still has one last step to go.

1300 BC.

King Tut is dying.

He has ruled Egypt for only ten years.

And yet, he is still little more than a boy.

But a terrible wound to his leg has set off a

series of events that will ultimately kill him.

What brought him here?

The key is the wound.

If the fracture had severed an artery, Tut would have bled to death in minutes.

But CAT scan evidence proves that Tut lingered.

The picture showed the fracture beginning to react.

These reactions occur at a predictable rate.

Based on the amount of inflammation in the wound, doctors A.

Garter and Gostner believed that Tut lived for

between one and five days after he broke his leg.

Any fracture could be subjected to some

complications, some infection in the fracture site.

That may endanger the life.

Two possible scenarios make sense.

First, in the accident or battle, Tut could have been wounded in his chest.

This might explain why he's missing his sternum and ribcage.

Maybe the priests who embalmed him cut away the damaged bones, trying to repair

his body, so Tut could use it in the afterlife.

But the most likely cause of death is simple infection.

In a time before antibiotics, such a severe

open fracture could have been a death sentence.

The wound could easily have become infected.

The onset of gangrene would emerge in only a few days, racking his body with fever.

Eventually, stopping his heart, launching him on a voyage to eternity.

The king who died that day had lived a good life.

The CAT scan machine has revealed more than just a picture of his final days.

We've even come to know the pharaoh himself.

One leg was a centimeter longer than the other.

He had a slight curvature in his spine, all normal for his age.

And, except for the impacted wisdom tooth, he wasn't great health.

Small, but robust.

Well fed.

Not muscular.

Just a royal boy.

Until now, we could only imagine what he looked like.

But by using the CAT scan data, forensic sculptors

are able to map the angles and dimensions of a face.

And so we can now see a face we have never truly seen before.

The face of King Tutankhamun.

The face that ruled ancient Egypt three thousand three hundred and thirty years ago.

After three millennia, he comes to life again.

A young pharaoh in his prime, leader of one of the most powerful kingdoms on earth.

A loving wife.

A palace in thebes.

But the boy king's glory will be fleeting.

His place in history, brief.

In the shadow of his radical ancestor Akhenaten, his reign will be cut short.

It marks the end of a family, a dynasty, and an entire era.

In the valley of the kings, the CAT scan machine has been shut down.

And Zahi Hawass and his team are returning the pharaoh's mummy to his tomb.

Hawass prepares Tut's body for immortality,

just as the ancient priests did so long ago.

After his longest journey in decades, the legendary Tut returns to his conflict.

Hawass and the scientists have reconstructed the shape of his life.

Together, they have made a little-known king who ruled

for a few teenage years, much bigger than he ever was.

And in a way, rescued him from the ultimate curse, the curse of being forgotten.

In Egypt's ancient book of the dead, it says, To

speak the name of the dead is to make them live again.

It restores the breath of life to he who has vanished.

And so three millennia after he died, his final secrets revealed.

The golden pharaoh lives on.