In November 1922, 100 years ago this year, British archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter made a small hole above an underground doorway in the Valley of the Kings and discovered the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. This documentary offers an extraordinary opportunity to meet the pharaoh and admire 150 of his treasures, part of the largest international exhibition ever dedicated to the Golden Boy in Los Angeles (2019). Featuring high-resolution photographs by Sandro Vannini, close-up images from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, accompanied by expert commentary from international experts.
Original photographic and film material from the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Griffith Institute in Oxford, shows the most poignant moments of Carter's discovery and reveals, among other things, the impact of Tutankhamun's famous curse and the few facts about the life of the young pharaoh: a boy elevated to demigod status, who died at the age of nineteen and became, of all the pharaohs in ancient Egypt, the most famous of them all, 3342 years after his burial.
