Spectacular Treasures: Unveiling Ancient Mysteries

Totin common spectacular [Music] Treasures now for the first time since they were discovered all 5,398 objects are being brought together in a new $1 billion [Music] Museum this will be the first time many of them have been seen for a century look at the horse look at the horse look at the horse scientists have been using the latest Imaging and forensic technology to unlock long buried Mysteries to reveal The Man Behind the Mask so many tiny details are visible again this wasn't just a hall of treasure it was a veritable Arsenal not of a boy King but a warrior on a global stage Egypt's spectacular Tuten [Music] common he's the most famous most studied Pharaoh in history but even today tutan Common's Treasures still have much to reveal now the most comprehensive forensic examination of all Tuten Common's 5,000 Treasures is underway and several key objects have captured experts attention at the heart of the investigation a mysterious dagger found on Tuten Common's mummified body Priceless golden in Chariot decorations painstakingly reconstructed after resting in fragments for 3 and 1 half thousand years and the leather remains of a strange armored tunic these three Treasures will tell us much more about the real Tuton common not as a boy but as a warrior it's a new chapter in a story that began in the Valley of the Kings on the afternoon of November May 6th 1922 in the barren desert west of the Nile British archaeologist Howard Carter made the greatest archaeological discovery of all time the almost completely intact tomb of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh tutan common egyptologist Dr Chris nonon has been given a rare chance to get up close to Howard Carter's personal account of the momentous Discovery this is Howard Carter's journal and it's amazing for me to see this because this it really is as close as you can get to the very moment that Carter looked on this incredible Hall of objects for the very first time this meticulously handr written entry records Carter's asto.