In 1922 Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon came upon one of the most spectacular of all archaeological discoveries, the almost untouched tomb of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. After four years' intensive work the treasure was removed to the National Museum in Cairo, but the mummy of the pharaoh was resealed in its coffin in the tomb.
Now, for the first time since 1926, the coffin has been reopened so that a scientific X-ray study of the mummy could be made by a team led by Professor R. G. Harrison of the Department of Human Anatomy, Liverpool University.
The whole of the reopening, the X-ray process, and the interpretation of the results was filmed, to add yet another chapter to the extraordinary story of the young king who was buried some 3,300 years ago in mysterious circumstances in the Valley of Kings in Egypt.
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