• 2018
  • 1h
Tut's Treasures: Hidden Secrets

Summary Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 made headlines across the world sparking a global frenzy for Ancient Egypt. But over the decades since the find, many of the pharaoh's priceless grave goods have disappeared into museum basements and archives across Egypt. Now all 5,398 objects are being reunited for the first time since their discovery at the new Grand Egyptian Museum. Many have never been seen before but together they shed new light on the short, eventful life of the so-called 'Boy King' and are now helping experts realize the sheer scale of Tutankhamun's influence in the ancient world. View more details

  • 2018
  • 1h

Tut's Treasures: Hidden Secrets

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Salima Ikram Aidan Dodson Chris Naunton Paul Mercier

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7.3

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Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Mar 23, 2018

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

Production companies : Blink Films

Summary Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 made headlines across the world sparking a global frenzy for Ancient Egypt. But over the decades since the find, many of the pharaoh's priceless grave goods have disappeared into museum basements and archives across Egypt. Now all 5,398 objects are being reunited for the first time since their discovery at the new Grand Egyptian Museum. Many have never been seen before but together they shed new light on the short, eventful life of the so-called 'Boy King' and are now helping experts realize the sheer scale of Tutankhamun's influence in the ancient world. View more details

Details

Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Mar 23, 2018

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

Production companies : Blink Films

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Mar 23, 2018
New Secrets of the Warrior King
Most of Howard Carter's fabulous find, the treasure of pharaoh Tutankhamen, has been kept locked in the reserves of Cairo's Archeological Museum, hence rarely studied at all. As the entire collection must be prepared for moving to the new museum, scientists seize the opportunity to catch up. A multidisciplinary team studying his elaborate leather body armor, chariot and arms -especially for archery- finds indications, compatible with data from the Luxor temples and other sources, suggesting the boy king may well have grown up to an ambitious ruler at least portraying himself as a conquering warrior taking on rebels in the Nubian south and foes among the Libyan tribes and especially the Hittite threat from the east, notably in greater Syria. His apparently hastily pre-mummified corpse suggests a battle field death.
Episode 2 • May 04, 2018
Golden Mask
The shiny royal death mask is the iconic showpiece of Tut's uniquely preserved treasure, vast to mirror the whole royal life in the aftermath, yet Egyptologists speculate it may not be made originally for him but adapted (from queen-mother Nefertite?) to respect the two months period religiously allotted for a funeral. That would fit many recycled elements, like the relatively modest tomb itself and about a quarter of the minor pieces, as well as the shockingly clumsy mummification -even without the vital heart- of the king, suggesting a sudden death far from Thebes. Yet according to an expert's modern techniques, the gold and (semiprecious) gems masterpiece checks out as original.
Episode 3 • May 27, 2018
Tales From the Tomb
Two tiny coffins contain the mummies of two girls, by DNA test almost certain his baby daughters, not sacrifices, and lost shots at a future for his 18th dynasty. The like cause of death is incest, as their mother, his queen, was probably his full sister, like his 'history)wiped' father Achenathon's wife and his mother probably also was a sister. This incestuous practice of 'preserving royal blood' probably also accounts for his own painful infirmities, attested by various evidence from the treasure, such as tailored sandals and walking sticks. Yet the weakening of the empire during his father's religious revolution had weakened the empire, forcing him to reclaim Egypt's superpower status by war on his top-notch chariot, but may well have been killed on the battlefield, hence mummified even poorer then his hasty burial in a tomb probably switched from the fitting one by his successor Aye, a non-princely courtier, who was still wiped from memory like him, apparently all still too closely tainted by Akhenaton's cursed memory.
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