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King Tut, I think everyone's heard of the name King Tut.

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King Tutankhamen.

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I guess he was a pharaoh, right?

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When I was little, King Tut was very fascinating to me.

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For being entombed, that's the big one.

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For 3,000 years existing in obscurity,

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and then all of a sudden your tomb is discovered

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and you're like this celebrity.

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That is awesome.

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King Tut ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago,

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but was his life all that interesting?

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Mmm, not really.

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(tape whirring)

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Because during his reign, he doesn't really do very much.

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Then they shoved him in the ground

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for 3,245 years with all his royal possessions.

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No one really gets excited about a 3,000-year-old skeleton

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in the desert until he's surrounded by gold.

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Ooh, shiny!

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And he became history's unlikeliest superstar.

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(cameras snapping)

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He's up there with sort of Jesus.

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(angels singing)

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Or Gandhi.

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Okay.

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{\an8}It's just one of those names

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{\an8}that will have absolute recognition all around the world.

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{\an8}You could ask any person on the street,

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{\an8}"Tell me about Egypt."

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{\an8}They will know the name King Tut.

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It's been 100 years since

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the modern world first met King Tut.

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For 3,000 years, he had a restful peace

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and then he became thrown into the spotlight.

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Since then,

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he's been the subject of more than 5,500 books.

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I'll take that one.

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And 860,000 news articles,

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or about three every day.

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Interesting.

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He's also spawned

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a multi-billion dollar movie franchise.

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King Tut has had a huge impact on our modern culture.

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His influence, whether it's fashion,

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clothing, architecture,

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it's just gonna continue to grow.

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He's the Lost King.

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Tutankhamen was forgotten.

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It's a really incredible story.

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Who reappeared out of nowhere

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and changed the modern world.

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Hey, look, It's King Tut!

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{\an8}They say in ancient Egypt,

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{\an8}that if people keep saying your name-

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King Tut.

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King Tut.

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Whilst you're in the afterlife-

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King Tut.

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King Tut.

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King Tut.

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Then you will live forever.

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This is the story of King Tut,

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the celebrity pharaoh.

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Ever look at an American $1 bill and wonder,

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"Why in the world is there a pyramid on it?"

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That's weird.

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It's there because of a super celebrity influencer.

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It says "In God we trust" right next to a pyramid.

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It's one of those things we can associate with,

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not only Egyptian history,

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but King Tut's discovery specifically.

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As of 2020, there are 13.1 billion

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$1 bills in circulation.

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All stamped with a salute to ancient Egypt

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because of King Tut's popularity.

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It takes some serious star power

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to change the face of money,

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especially another country's money.

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The story of how an ancient Egyptian aristocrat

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put his nation's stamp on the U.S. greenbacks

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starts with an English aristocrat in 1901.

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{\an8}Lord Carnarvon is the fifth Earl of Carnarvon

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{\an8}and his house is Highclere.

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Ooh!

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Oh, fancy.

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And you probably remember it

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{\an8}because it is on "Downton Abbey."

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{\an8}He was one of the richest men in England,

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and he was just a Playboy really, earlier in life.

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He owned race horses.

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He sailed around the world.

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He got into all kinds of adventures.

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Yeehaw!

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Lord Carnarvon liked his cars too.

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He liked them expensive and he liked them fast.

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He enjoyed speeding.

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If he wasn't speeding, his chauffeur was speeding.

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And actually he was bought up in front

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of the magistrates on numerous occasions.

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Lord Leadfoot's first speeding ticket

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{\an8}was for cruising at a reckless 12 miles per hour.

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{\an8}Pip, pip!

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{\an8}And a second time a downright

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Stop right there.

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He led this very adventurous,

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risky lifestyle until in 1901,

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Carnarvon was speeding in a motorcar down country lanes,

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in the German countryside,

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and there were a couple of cattle-drawn carts

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in a blind dip in the road.

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He didn't see them until the last minute, so he swerved.

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Ouch.

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He never fully recovered from that.

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His health was weak.

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His lungs in particular were damaged from the accident,

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so he wasn't able to do a lot of

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the activities that he'd been doing before.

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The winters in England in particular

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were very difficult for him with his weak lungs,

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so he started wintering in Egypt

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and he became captivated by Egyptology.

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Egyptology is the study of

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all things ancient Egypt.

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Gods, pharaohs pyramids, hieroglyphics, the whole shebang.

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It's all the rage at the time,

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and the former Mr. Fast and Imperious is all in.

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He sets himself the lofty goal of finding

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a lost pharaoh's tomb full of treasure.

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And at the time, the antiquity's service in Egypt,

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they were collaborating with rich amateurs

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{\an8}to fund the excavations.

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{\an8}He had plenty of money to underwrite an excavation.

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Seemed like a natural hobby for him to pick up.

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The civilization we call ancient Egypt

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{\an8}lasted for more than 3,000 years.

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That's 13 times longer than

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the United States has been a country.

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("The Star-Spangled Banner")

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Over that time, it was ruled by

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{\an8}a succession of 30 separate dynasties

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{\an8}and at least 200 pharaohs.

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When any Egypt Pharaoh died, they checked out in style.

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He then had pyramids and they'd create

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these beautiful royal tombs full of everything.

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Just beautiful golden items, treasures, jewelry.

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All of those amazing details of everyday life

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to help him live in the afterlife.

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It's sort of hidden away behind the cliffs,

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quite hard to get to.

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And then they dug their tombs into

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the bedrock with these hidden entrances.

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So the idea was that that would be

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much more protected against looters,

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and they were more likely to be able to keep their mummies

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and all of their possessions intact.

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If Lord Moneybags is going

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to find his treasure tomb, this is the best place to look.

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Except he isn't exactly a nine to five guy,

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when it comes to putting in a hard day's work.

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(Lord Carnarvon yawning)

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He was very much upper class

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and didn't want to get his hands dirty at all.

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But also he didn't really understand

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the process of archeology at all.

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So he needed a right-hand man.

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His right-hand man to do that was Carter.

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Carnarvon teams up with Howard Carter,

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an archeologist who's been working

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in Egypt for 15 years searching for treasure.

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In particular, he's looking for

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a little known Pharaoh whose tomb has never turned up.

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His name is Tutankhamen.

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{\an8}There really wasn't a lot that people

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{\an8}or academics or Egyptologists knew about King Tut.

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There were only a few references

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to him found in some other tombs.

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Carter figures Tut's tomb

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is tucked away somewhere under them

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there hills in the Valley of the Kings.

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By the time the team starts digging here,

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61 tombs in the valley have already been discovered,

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numbered by archeologists from to KV1 to KV61.

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But so far they've contained zero treasure.

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These tombs were being looted

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even in ancient Egyptian times,

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so there was nothing still in these tombs,

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the mummies weren't still in these tombs.

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Undeterred, the two men are

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dead set on making KV62 their number.

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Jolly good.

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It's a little weird that white people, and Americans,

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and Europeans just go around digging up other people.

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What attracts so many people?

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Probably the gold.

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But at the same time,

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I also want to know what's in that grave.

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There has to be something to do with the aliens, right?

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It's rediscovering past lives that

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people completely forgot about.

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In the Valley of the Kings they found

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very, very little for five years

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and they were really being ridiculed

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by others around them at the time.

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Disappointed by the lack of progress,

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Carnarvon spends more and more time back in England.

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He's ready to pull the plug on Egypt

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and find himself another hobby.

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Carter implores him to keep going for just one more season.

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{\an8}There's seven digging in the valley.

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This really was the last throw of the dice.

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He's like, "Okay, one more season."

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King Tut has been missing for over 3,000 years.

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His fate now hinges on an all

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or nothing bet on lucky number seven.

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{\an8}So it was November, 1922,

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{\an8}when they finally started on that last season.

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And it was really Carter who kept that going.

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He had this conviction that Tutankhamen

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was going to be there.

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(Carter humming)

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It's the early morning of November 4th, 1922.

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Howard Carter steps out of his mud brick house

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on the banks of the Nile to begin

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another day's digging in the Valley of the Kings.

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History will record this as the day that Carter,

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the English archeologist, finally makes his big discovery.

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But the history books are wrong.

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Huh?

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And the real credit should go to

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someone you've probably never heard of.

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Huh?

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A 12 year old Egyptian boy

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{\an8}named Hussain Abdul-Rasoul.

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{\an8}Oh.

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{\an8}He is a local water boy bringing

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water to the valley for all the Egyptian team

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that's working with Howard Carter excavating this area.

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And he needs to dig a hole in the ground

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in order to place the water jug for it to stand upright.

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(upbeat whistling music)

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Using his foot to dig a hole in the ground,

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he discovers a cut stone ledge.

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(donkeys braying)

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When Carter arrived first thing that morning,

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the team were very quiet.

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At first, he was worried that there

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had been an accident, that someone had been hurt.

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And then they showed him that they had uncovered a step.

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(industrious instrumental music)

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Carter immediately orders the team to get digging,

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revealing a second step, and then a third.

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The workmen continue to dig and they,

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that day, uncover more and more steps.

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(slide whistle whistling)

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{\an8}16 steps in all leading down to a door

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and they uncovered the top part of that door.

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Looks as if that door is still sealed.

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The archeologist knows he could

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be standing on the threshold of something huge,

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but there's just one problem.

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But Carnarvon isn't there.

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("God Save the Queen")

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Carnarvon is back at home on his estate in Berkshire.

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(clock ticking)

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Carter can't go any further

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and steal all the glory from his money man.

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So he sends Carnarvon a telegram that says,

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"At last, have made a wonderful discovery in the valley.

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Congratulations."

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The Earl immediately hightails it to Egypt. (laughing)

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Sort of.

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Leaving his partner stuck, waiting to make history.

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(Carter angrily grumbling)

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Carter has to wait about two weeks

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for Carnarvon to get there.

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You can't just fly from London to Egypt.

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So they go back, they uncover the lower part of the door.

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And now there is the name of Tutankhamen.

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(dramatic instrumental music)

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So they remove that door and beyond it,

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eventually they come to a second door.

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(slide whistle whistling)

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Carter makes a small hole in the top corner of the door.

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Huh, what's this?

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So then he gets a candle and looks through the hole.

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(angels singing)

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And inside he can just see glimmers of gold

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and just objects everywhere.

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He's speechless.

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And he's just standing there for

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moments without saying anything.

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And Lord Carnarvon famously tells Howard Carter,

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"Oh, can you see anything?

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What do you see?"

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And it takes everything in Howard Carter

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just to utter, "Yes, wonderful things."

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(clocks ticking)

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In KV62, Carter and Carnarvon have hit the jackpot.

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Ah!

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There are exactly 5,398

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wonderful things in Tut's tomb.

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So much shiny things.

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Including three golden chariots,

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two life-sized statues of the Pharaoh,

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three golden couches, two beds,

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two trumpets, and one throne.

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(clapboard clapping)

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King Tut's tomb really does stand as

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pretty much the biggest archeological discovery of all time.

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It's just all of this incredible stuff.

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(plodding instrumental music)

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So when the news actually finally hits the outside world,

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there's this mad rush to the Valley of the Kings.

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And this is the point where all

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of the reporters would stand there milling around,

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waiting for a piece of the action.

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The whole world wants a piece of Tut

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(gong crashing)

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and he's arrived at the perfect time.

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The timing of the discovery,

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when it happened, the Telegraph was being introduced.

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(film reels clicking)

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(upbeat instrumental music)

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The first transatlantic cables stretched over 2,500 miles,

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at a depth of more than two miles.

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{\an8}By the 1920s, news that once took two weeks to cross

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{\an8}the ocean now takes just two minutes.

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{\an8}If it would've happened 10 years earlier,

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{\an8}it would not have been a global phenomenon.

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If it would have happened 10 years later,

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it might've been lost with all the other information.

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And it was the perfect timing for

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an event like this to occur.

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The whole place is like a big,

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massive conglomeration of paparazzi essentially.

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I mean, what do you do?

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Realizing he's sitting on a goldmine,

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in more ways than one,

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Carnarvon cuts a deal with the "Times of London."

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He gives them exclusive rights to photograph

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the contents of the tomb in return for £5,000,

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the equivalent today of around $360,000.

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{\an8}All of the other newspapers are

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{\an8}right royally annoyed about this,

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and they're trying to find other stories

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and other avenues to kind of get through.

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(film reels clicking)

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(industrious instrumental music)

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On the 22nd of December, 1922,

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exactly one month after the tomb's entry,

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the "New York Times" runs a Tut story

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that opens an enduring can of worms.

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[Newspaper Salesman] Extra, read all about it!

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It includes a bit of journalistic fluff

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that will go on to spawn at least

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19 horror movies over the next 100 years.

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It's about...

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The curse.

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The curse.

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The curse.

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The curse.

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The curse of Tutankhamen.

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(ominous instrumental music)

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When Lord Carnarvon gives

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the "Times of London" exclusive access to the discovery,

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its cross-Atlantic namesake, "The New York Times,"

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becomes desperate for any story to keep

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its Tut obsessed readers satisfied.

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{\an8}That's where you get the first ideas of a curse.

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If I can't get the real story,

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then I'm going to fabricate a story.

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They try to sensationalize it so that

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they can sell papers as well,

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to kind of latch on to this huge find of Tutankhamen.

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{\an8}It's all about headlines, it's click bait.

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{\an8}It is early 1900s click bait.

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The media hasn't changed much

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in how they deliver stories or titles.

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It's just a matter of how we get the information.

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Tucked away in the "Times" reporters'

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description of the tomb is the first

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of many dubious Tut tales to come.

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{\an8}One of these stories included Howard Carter's pet canary,

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(Canary chirping)

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which he kept with him at his excavation house in Luxor.

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The paper reports that at the same moment

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Carter and Carnarvon were busting into Tut's tomb,

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a real life cobra broke into castle Carter.

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Is anybody home?

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It was reported that soon after the tomb was opened

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and Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter

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had discovered tomb of King Tut,

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that a cobra had come into the house

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and made its way into the canary's cage

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and ate the poor bird.

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Ha ha!

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(cobra burping)

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(canary chirping)

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The cobra was later discovered

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still in the canary's cage, with the bird in its mouse.

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According to the "New York Times," it's a sign of...

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The wraith of the ancient gods.

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So what they wanted to do is they

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wanted a sensational story.

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How can we jazz up this curse of Tutankhamen?

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{\an8}A cobra sits prominently on the head dress of King Tut.

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We associate cobras with the pharaohs.

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So people got very nervous.

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The cobra incident is just the beginning.

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Within weeks, one of Tut's two discoverers

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will follow the canary into the great beyond.

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Uh oh.

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(film reels clicking)

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{\an8}Quickly after Carter and Carnarvon discovered the tomb,

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so towards the end of that season,

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something happened that just changed

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the entire course of the work.

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(mosquito buzzing)

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Which is that Carnarvon got bitten by a mosquito.

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(mosquito squelching)

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And unfortunately,

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one morning as he's doing his daily routine and shaving,

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he cuts the mosquito bite with his razor.

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Oh dear.

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And it becomes infected.

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He ended up with blood poisoning and eventually pneumonia.

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This is before the time of antibiotics.

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17 days later, Lord Carnarvon,

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the career thrill seeker

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and financier of the excavation, dies.

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I regret nothing.

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(Carnarvon puking)

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It's reported that around the time that

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Lord Carnarvon actually died in Cairo,

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his favorite pet dog back at

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Highclere Castle in Great Britain lets out

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this huge howl and then falls over dead.

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(dog yelping)

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(exotic instrumental music)

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And it was also reported in the news at the same time,

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that Lord Carnarvon passed away or died.

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And then there was a blackout throughout

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the city of Cairo as well.

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(crickets chirping)

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The coincidences made for sensational stories.

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[Newspaper Salesman] Get your papers.

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Even though power outages in Cairo

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back then were a dime a dozen

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and the Earl himself was always

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on the verge of switching off.

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He was quite a frail man,

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but this whole idea of the curse

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is embroiled in his death as well.

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It just, I suppose, fuels the imagination

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of all the people around the world at the time.

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(suspenseful instrumental music)

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(record scratching)

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Sure, I believe in the curse of King Tut.

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Why not? (laughing)

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You should not mess with a mummy

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or you're going to be cursed forever.

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I'm not really very superstitious,

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not since I stopped playing baseball.

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("Take Me Out to the Ballgame")

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Curse of King Tut.

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(interviewee sighing)

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It's a relic from an ancient time, right?

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That sounds pretty curseish.

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All of a sudden,

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King Tut has gone from long loss Pharaoh

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to an avenging spirit looking to

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kick some major archeologist ass.

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Even before Canarvon's death,

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{\an8}there was sort of unease amongst a lot of the public.

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{\an8}This idea of violating this king's resting place.

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They embellished storylines

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{\an8}and created conspiracy theories and imagined curses.

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{\an8}You know, once you hear curse, that catches my attention.

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Even if I don't believe in it,

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I want to read that article 'cause just in case.

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(suspicious instrumental music)

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(numbers clicking)

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In 1934, Herbert Winlock,

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director of New York's Met Museum,

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tries to dispel the curse with an op ed article

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that includes an eyeopening fact.

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(upbeat instrumental music)

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Of the 22 people who are present at

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the opening of Tut's burial chamber,

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six died over the ensuing 11 years.

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But if there really is a curse, why didn't everybody die?

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(suspicious instrumental music)

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For all his good intentions,

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Winlock's logic has a snowball's chance

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in the Sahara of changing anybody's mind.

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In America, we do believe in curses.

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Ancient Egypt is so far removed,

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they could've had magic sorcerers.

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Nobody knows.

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John Balderston, a New York columnist

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covering the Tut discovery,

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is fascinated by the curse story.

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{\an8}(upbeat piano music)

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{\an8}10 years later, he's on Sunset Boulevard,

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{\an8}typing out his first Hollywood screenplay.

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00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:21,630
{\an8}He's been told to adapt a story about

534
00:21:21,630 --> 00:21:23,928
a magician in San Francisco.

535
00:21:23,928 --> 00:21:24,761
(magic whizzing)

536
00:21:24,761 --> 00:21:28,450
So he moves the story to Egypt, ancient Egypt.

537
00:21:28,450 --> 00:21:31,164
He changes the magician's name to Imhotep.

538
00:21:31,164 --> 00:21:32,530
Imhotep.

539
00:21:32,530 --> 00:21:34,270
And to spice the story up,

540
00:21:34,270 --> 00:21:37,816
Balderston invents the curse of Thoth.

541
00:21:37,816 --> 00:21:40,780
(creepy instrumental music)

542
00:21:40,780 --> 00:21:43,910
In 1932, "The Mummy,"

543
00:21:43,910 --> 00:21:47,703
starring Boris Karloff is let loose on the world.

544
00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:51,229
(dramatic instrumental music)

545
00:21:51,229 --> 00:21:53,450
Death, eternal punishment

546
00:21:54,360 --> 00:21:59,360
for anyone who opens this casket.

547
00:22:00,378 --> 00:22:02,287
{\an8}(film reel clicking)

548
00:22:02,287 --> 00:22:04,060
"The Mummy" certainly helped to

549
00:22:04,060 --> 00:22:06,450
{\an8}promote this idea of a pharaoh's curse

550
00:22:06,450 --> 00:22:09,570
or the curse of a mummy that can be reanimated

551
00:22:09,570 --> 00:22:11,970
and track down his enemies, if you will,

552
00:22:11,970 --> 00:22:14,300
or those who disturbed his burial.

553
00:22:14,300 --> 00:22:16,070
Hollywood then embellishes that.

554
00:22:16,070 --> 00:22:18,040
It ties into our fear.

555
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:19,280
It takes us back to childhood,

556
00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:21,643
where we look under our beds just in case.

557
00:22:22,790 --> 00:22:24,147
90 years later,

558
00:22:24,147 --> 00:22:27,123
{\an8}"The Mummy" franchise is still going strong.

559
00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:32,460
Since 1999, there has been eight new "Mummy" movies.

560
00:22:32,460 --> 00:22:36,433
Together, they have grossed a total of $1.8 billion.

561
00:22:37,290 --> 00:22:39,090
{\an8}That's twice as much as the current

562
00:22:39,090 --> 00:22:42,147
insurance value of the Tut tomb treasure trove.

563
00:22:42,147 --> 00:22:43,427
(upbeat instrumental music)

564
00:22:43,427 --> 00:22:45,620
(popcorn popping)

565
00:22:45,620 --> 00:22:47,800
I think of that movie, "The Mummy,"

566
00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:49,700
that I watched entirely too young,

567
00:22:49,700 --> 00:22:52,000
and then was scared of toilet paper after.

568
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:53,300
Is King Tut a mummy now?

569
00:22:53,300 --> 00:22:54,690
There's like the new versions of "The Mummy."

570
00:22:54,690 --> 00:22:55,810
That guy was a grown ass adult.

571
00:22:55,810 --> 00:22:56,643
Okay, all right.

572
00:22:56,643 --> 00:22:58,936
What the hell happened to Brendan Fraser's career?

573
00:22:58,936 --> 00:23:00,710
Where'd he go?

574
00:23:00,710 --> 00:23:02,670
He was everywhere, now he's gone. (laughing)

575
00:23:02,670 --> 00:23:04,240
That's the curse of King Tut.

576
00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:06,520
But what about the mummy who started at all?

577
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,120
Who was the real pharaoh behind the bandages?

578
00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:12,370
{\an8}I think when people think of ancient Egyptian mummies,

579
00:23:12,370 --> 00:23:16,710
{\an8}they do think of this kind of strange zombiesque,

580
00:23:16,710 --> 00:23:20,360
the Hammer Horror kind of association.

581
00:23:20,360 --> 00:23:22,070
If you unwrap the bandages,

582
00:23:22,070 --> 00:23:25,600
you'd look on the face of that person.

583
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:26,970
Writing in his diary,

584
00:23:26,970 --> 00:23:30,530
Howard Carter calls November 11th, 1925,

585
00:23:30,530 --> 00:23:33,650
a great day in the history of archeology,

586
00:23:33,650 --> 00:23:35,080
because this is the day that

587
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,810
he begins to unwrap Tut's bandages.

588
00:23:37,810 --> 00:23:39,040
This isn't just history.

589
00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:40,500
You can unwrap the mummies

590
00:23:40,500 --> 00:23:43,210
and see their facial expressions,

591
00:23:43,210 --> 00:23:46,070
bringing these kings and queens of history

592
00:23:46,070 --> 00:23:49,490
from thousands of years ago to life.

593
00:23:49,490 --> 00:23:54,490
Tut has been wrapped up tight for 3,245 years.

594
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,440
And some of the ancient embalming fluids used on him

595
00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:00,480
have long since passed their expiry date.

596
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:02,200
The resins and oils that have been

597
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:03,940
poured over the mummy and the coffin,

598
00:24:03,940 --> 00:24:06,133
they had set hard like glue.

599
00:24:07,930 --> 00:24:10,410
The mummy, with its burial mask in place,

600
00:24:10,410 --> 00:24:13,273
is still lying in the coffin, stuck to the bottom.

601
00:24:13,273 --> 00:24:15,290
(man grunting)

602
00:24:15,290 --> 00:24:17,640
Carter begins the process of removing

603
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,463
the layers of linen bandages one by one.

604
00:24:21,830 --> 00:24:23,370
Underneath the first layer,

605
00:24:23,370 --> 00:24:27,153
he discovers a gold amulet tucked inside the bandages.

606
00:24:28,340 --> 00:24:30,603
The farther he goes, the more he finds.

607
00:24:31,650 --> 00:24:34,660
A gold dagger, a bracelet,

608
00:24:34,660 --> 00:24:38,300
a scarab beetle, and a golden hawk.

609
00:24:38,300 --> 00:24:40,600
Unwrapping of the mummy of King Tut,

610
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:44,240
{\an8}they actually found 143 different amulets

611
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,010
{\an8}and pieces of jewelry within

612
00:24:47,010 --> 00:24:48,760
{\an8}the wrappings of the mummy itself.

613
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:50,240
And all of these objects were meant

614
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,980
to serve as protection for the king

615
00:24:52,980 --> 00:24:57,480
and to help him transfigure into a god in the afterlife.

616
00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:00,260
Carter realizes they are also signs of affection

617
00:25:00,260 --> 00:25:03,690
for the dead Pharaoh from those he left behind.

618
00:25:03,690 --> 00:25:04,650
It's your family.

619
00:25:04,650 --> 00:25:05,750
It's your family members.

620
00:25:05,750 --> 00:25:07,500
It's the funerary practice.

621
00:25:07,500 --> 00:25:10,027
It's still very much the person that you've lost,

622
00:25:10,027 --> 00:25:12,207
and you grieved for, and you've loved.

623
00:25:12,207 --> 00:25:13,340
(suspicious instrumental music)

624
00:25:13,340 --> 00:25:16,200
Finally, it's time to pry off his mask

625
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:19,523
and reveal the real King Tutankhamen to the world.

626
00:25:20,655 --> 00:25:23,030
(creepy instrumental music)

627
00:25:23,030 --> 00:25:26,507
In the words of Carter, "He's beautiful."

628
00:25:27,490 --> 00:25:28,980
They unwrap the mummy, looked at the body,

629
00:25:28,980 --> 00:25:32,170
and they realized that Tutankhamen died when he was only 18.

630
00:25:32,170 --> 00:25:35,230
He came to the throne when he was about nine years old

631
00:25:35,230 --> 00:25:38,140
and he dies this kind of mysterious death.

632
00:25:38,140 --> 00:25:40,300
Nobody really knows why.

633
00:25:40,300 --> 00:25:42,993
It's a mystery science has yet to solve.

634
00:25:44,782 --> 00:25:46,180
There are so many theories.

635
00:25:46,180 --> 00:25:50,710
There's been sickle cell anemia, epilepsy, malaria.

636
00:25:50,710 --> 00:25:53,542
You might've been attacked by a hippo in the Nile.

637
00:25:53,542 --> 00:25:55,410
(hippo growling)

638
00:25:55,410 --> 00:25:56,720
There are other theories.

639
00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:00,070
That he died whilst he was hunting on a chariot.

640
00:26:00,070 --> 00:26:02,070
Perhaps he died in battle.

641
00:26:02,070 --> 00:26:04,638
This whole mystery around his death

642
00:26:04,638 --> 00:26:08,940
is really tantalizing to lots of people.

643
00:26:08,940 --> 00:26:11,590
{\an8}There's another, more controversial question,

644
00:26:11,590 --> 00:26:15,780
{\an8}whose answer remains locked within 30,000 human genes.

645
00:26:15,780 --> 00:26:18,690
There is an obsession by scholars

646
00:26:18,690 --> 00:26:22,100
and researchers to try to identify

647
00:26:22,100 --> 00:26:23,823
the race of King Tutankhamen.

648
00:26:25,980 --> 00:26:27,277
Is Tutankhamen black?

649
00:26:27,277 --> 00:26:30,560
Has he been depicted as being too white?

650
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:32,890
I would say that actually in reality,

651
00:26:32,890 --> 00:26:34,710
it's somewhere in the middle.

652
00:26:34,710 --> 00:26:38,130
And I think that we should just be really happy that they

653
00:26:38,130 --> 00:26:41,070
are part of the African diaspora

654
00:26:41,070 --> 00:26:43,790
and that these amazing people created

655
00:26:43,790 --> 00:26:48,680
such fabulous cultures on the African continent.

656
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:50,880
{\an8}In a way it, probably would take

657
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,340
{\an8}something away from Tutankhamen if we did know.

658
00:26:53,340 --> 00:26:56,720
I think it's precisely that mystery, that uncertainty,

659
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,940
that ability to tell new stories that has kept

660
00:26:59,940 --> 00:27:02,663
him so much in this sort of public fascination.

661
00:27:03,830 --> 00:27:05,920
But back in the early 1920s,

662
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,100
way before John Balderston bashed out

663
00:27:08,100 --> 00:27:09,850
his first draft of "The Mummy,"

664
00:27:09,850 --> 00:27:13,460
Tut is a rising star ready to go nova.

665
00:27:13,460 --> 00:27:15,755
Get ready for Tut mania.

666
00:27:15,755 --> 00:27:19,490
(exotic instrumental music)

667
00:27:19,490 --> 00:27:22,900
{\an8}I would argue that King Tut is a part of pop culture

668
00:27:22,900 --> 00:27:25,640
because of the timing when King Tut was discovered.

669
00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:28,154
This was an incredible moment.

670
00:27:28,154 --> 00:27:29,620
(street car horns beeping)

671
00:27:29,620 --> 00:27:32,961
You're just a few years past the horrors

672
00:27:32,961 --> 00:27:35,000
of the first World War.

673
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,300
You're into the Roaring Twenties,

674
00:27:37,300 --> 00:27:39,540
the age of jazz and flappers,

675
00:27:39,540 --> 00:27:44,540
and everyone's looking for glamor, luxury, fun, hope,

676
00:27:45,550 --> 00:27:48,930
and Tutankhamen's tomb just plays right into that.

677
00:27:48,930 --> 00:27:51,730
It's beyond everyone's dreams.

678
00:27:51,730 --> 00:27:54,980
And so this is exactly what everyone has been looking for.

679
00:27:54,980 --> 00:27:57,610
In 1922, when the world is suddenly

680
00:27:57,610 --> 00:28:00,590
seeing Tutankhamen's tomb being revealed,

681
00:28:00,590 --> 00:28:04,699
it just has this huge influence on the movie business.

682
00:28:04,699 --> 00:28:05,890
(instrumental trumpet music)

683
00:28:05,890 --> 00:28:08,640
On average, 50 million Americans

684
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:10,580
are going to the flicks every week.

685
00:28:10,580 --> 00:28:12,620
Middle-class America is thriving

686
00:28:12,620 --> 00:28:14,014
and three out of four people will visit

687
00:28:14,014 --> 00:28:16,580
the movie theater at least once a week.

688
00:28:16,580 --> 00:28:18,930
I don't think we could afford to do that now.

689
00:28:18,930 --> 00:28:20,700
The movie business is booming

690
00:28:20,700 --> 00:28:22,990
and Hollywood wants to keep it that way.

691
00:28:22,990 --> 00:28:25,860
So it cashes in on the coincidental crazes,

692
00:28:25,860 --> 00:28:27,960
bringing the grandeur of ancient Egypt

693
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:32,560
to main street in the form of 82 new temple-like cinemas.

694
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:35,070
Suddenly all of these movie theaters have been built,

695
00:28:35,070 --> 00:28:37,520
not just in the US but in the UK as well.

696
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,030
And they have these beautiful kind of

697
00:28:40,030 --> 00:28:41,760
ancient Egyptian echoes to them.

698
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:43,990
This whole idea of ancient Egypt

699
00:28:43,990 --> 00:28:47,236
and how fabulous and dazzling it is.

700
00:28:47,236 --> 00:28:49,190
Tut isn't just changing

701
00:28:49,190 --> 00:28:50,680
how people go to the movies.

702
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:52,320
He's changing the way we look,

703
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,400
thanks to two beautiful things,

704
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,483
hidden inside a whole lot fours.

705
00:28:57,939 --> 00:28:58,860
(record scratching)

706
00:28:58,860 --> 00:29:02,058
Um, to explain we need to rewind a bit.

707
00:29:02,058 --> 00:29:03,440
(exotic instrumental music)

708
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,570
When Howard Carter gets his first glimpse

709
00:29:05,570 --> 00:29:07,970
of the wonderful things inside Tut's tomb,

710
00:29:07,970 --> 00:29:09,283
it's only the beginning.

711
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:14,300
He'll eventually discover there are four separate rooms.

712
00:29:14,300 --> 00:29:16,680
He will break through four separate seals,

713
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,083
before entering the burial chamber itself.

714
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:24,880
Inside the chamber, there's a huge gilt wooden shrine.

715
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,010
And you see this golden shrine.

716
00:29:27,010 --> 00:29:30,450
But actually it's not just one shrine.

717
00:29:30,450 --> 00:29:32,657
There's four. (laughing)

718
00:29:32,657 --> 00:29:34,180
(upbeat instrumental music)

719
00:29:34,180 --> 00:29:36,190
Inside the inner most shrine,

720
00:29:36,190 --> 00:29:40,583
Carter finds a box shaped sarcophagus, a stone coffin.

721
00:29:42,250 --> 00:29:45,360
{\an8}Opening this, he discovers a second coffin

722
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:46,673
{\an8}in the shape of a person.

723
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:52,523
{\an8}Inside that is another, and finally a fourth coffin.

724
00:29:53,710 --> 00:29:55,310
When Carter opens this,

725
00:29:55,310 --> 00:29:57,300
he reaches the innermost layer

726
00:29:57,300 --> 00:29:59,740
and is met by the mesmerizing eyes

727
00:29:59,740 --> 00:30:02,673
of the golden boy king staring back at him.

728
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:05,880
Hi there, what took you so long?

729
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:11,960
The mask, which is the most famous symbolic artifact

730
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,950
that we think about when we think about Tutankhamen.

731
00:30:14,950 --> 00:30:17,440
It gave the divine attributes.

732
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,803
So protection and it enabled you to see in the underworld.

733
00:30:22,020 --> 00:30:23,560
A hundred years later,

734
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:28,030
we're still captivated by his darkly lined eyes.

735
00:30:28,030 --> 00:30:29,550
I'm sure if you ask anyone in the street

736
00:30:29,550 --> 00:30:31,230
who is the first to wear guyliner,

737
00:30:31,230 --> 00:30:33,030
they would probably say punk rockers,

738
00:30:33,030 --> 00:30:35,510
goth kids, vamp kids.

739
00:30:35,510 --> 00:30:39,200
But Egyptian men wore eyeliner long before all of that.

740
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:40,920
So they definitely started that trend.

741
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:42,900
Their influence on not only makeup,

742
00:30:42,900 --> 00:30:44,950
but beauty practices in general,

743
00:30:44,950 --> 00:30:46,989
still is in the present day.

744
00:30:46,989 --> 00:30:48,840
(upbeat synthesizer music)

745
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:50,930
Back in the early days of Tut mania,

746
00:30:50,930 --> 00:30:53,533
the pharaoh's eyeliner is everywhere.

747
00:30:54,610 --> 00:30:58,380
Thanks in part to the very first it girl, Clara Bow.

748
00:30:58,380 --> 00:31:01,899
Where she leads, millions of flappers follow.

749
00:31:01,899 --> 00:31:05,060
(upbeat jazz music)

750
00:31:05,060 --> 00:31:08,500
You've got things like the popularity of sequins as well,

751
00:31:08,500 --> 00:31:10,990
because some of the items that were found

752
00:31:10,990 --> 00:31:13,170
in Tutankhamen's tomb are decorated

753
00:31:13,170 --> 00:31:16,620
with thousands of delicate beads and sequins,

754
00:31:16,620 --> 00:31:18,690
like little discs of gold,

755
00:31:18,690 --> 00:31:21,157
all feeding through people wanting to get a piece of

756
00:31:21,157 --> 00:31:23,569
of Tutankhamen and ancient Egypt.

757
00:31:23,569 --> 00:31:25,240
(film reels clicking)

758
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,910
I mean, Egypt influencing jewelry and design,

759
00:31:27,910 --> 00:31:29,030
that's so cool.

760
00:31:29,030 --> 00:31:31,100
I do like the crazy eyeliner.

761
00:31:31,100 --> 00:31:32,980
That's definitely Egyptian inspired.

762
00:31:32,980 --> 00:31:37,109
Thank you for the fashion choices, King Tut.

763
00:31:37,109 --> 00:31:39,467
(upbeat jazz music)

764
00:31:39,467 --> 00:31:43,160
Tut mania really took off in the 1920s.

765
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,380
{\an8}People wanted Egyptian everything.

766
00:31:46,380 --> 00:31:50,074
There's even a famous brand of condoms called Ramesses.

767
00:31:50,074 --> 00:31:50,907
(stick vibrating)

768
00:31:50,907 --> 00:31:54,380
That were made in 23 and they amass

769
00:31:54,380 --> 00:31:57,830
a massive wealth in the 1930s.

770
00:31:57,830 --> 00:32:01,480
It makes sense that marketing to young men

771
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,630
during a period of sexual liberation

772
00:32:04,630 --> 00:32:06,640
would appeal to their interests in

773
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:11,160
being associated with an Egyptian god king.

774
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:14,633
I guess you can make some analogy about wrapping it up.

775
00:32:14,633 --> 00:32:17,370
(crowd booing)

776
00:32:17,370 --> 00:32:18,830
Sex and fashion aren't

777
00:32:18,830 --> 00:32:21,000
the only things Tut's influencing.

778
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,260
Remember the pyramid on the dollar bill?

779
00:32:23,260 --> 00:32:27,880
The federal reserve in Washington DC adds it in 1935,

780
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,895
cashing in on the pharaoh's soaring fame.

781
00:32:30,895 --> 00:32:31,880
(Model T horns beeping)

782
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:35,530
But nowhere does Tut mania quite like New York City,

783
00:32:35,530 --> 00:32:40,240
where his star power will do an end run around 1916ZL,

784
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:43,320
better known as the 1916 Zoning Resolution,

785
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,023
and change the Manhattan skyline forever.

786
00:32:47,573 --> 00:32:50,290
(machinery clicking)

787
00:32:50,290 --> 00:32:52,670
{\an8}We see the obsession with King Tut

788
00:32:52,670 --> 00:32:55,940
{\an8}having a lot of impact on style.

789
00:32:55,940 --> 00:33:00,910
Clothing, women's dresses, but especially architecturally.

790
00:33:00,910 --> 00:33:04,790
American culture is often about assimilating ideas

791
00:33:04,790 --> 00:33:06,760
and patterns from elsewhere.

792
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:08,820
So it doesn't surprise me that one of

793
00:33:08,820 --> 00:33:12,050
our most iconic buildings is really reflecting

794
00:33:12,050 --> 00:33:15,260
our interpretation of an Egyptian style.

795
00:33:15,260 --> 00:33:18,210
It's the story of how Tut took Manhattan,

796
00:33:18,210 --> 00:33:19,790
and it goes like this.

797
00:33:19,790 --> 00:33:22,430
The year is 1929

798
00:33:22,430 --> 00:33:25,270
and architect William Frederick Lamb has a dilemma.

799
00:33:25,270 --> 00:33:26,103
Hmm.

800
00:33:26,103 --> 00:33:27,040
He's been asked to design

801
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:28,780
a new building for the Big Apple,

802
00:33:28,780 --> 00:33:31,900
one taller than any other in existence.

803
00:33:31,900 --> 00:33:33,050
But there's a problem.

804
00:33:33,050 --> 00:33:34,960
{\an8}In the early 20th century, New York City was

805
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:38,200
{\an8}a claustrophobic place because of the dense cityscape.

806
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:41,608
It blocked out fresh air and sunlight from the people below.

807
00:33:41,608 --> 00:33:43,070
(dramatic instrumental music)

808
00:33:43,070 --> 00:33:45,140
In response, the city enacted

809
00:33:45,140 --> 00:33:47,450
the 1916 Zoning Resolution,

810
00:33:47,450 --> 00:33:50,683
{\an8}putting strict limits on the size of new buildings.

811
00:33:51,740 --> 00:33:55,210
To get around it, Lamb goes back to the drawing board

812
00:33:55,210 --> 00:33:58,120
and takes inspiration from ancient Egypt.

813
00:33:58,120 --> 00:33:59,766
I've got it!

814
00:33:59,766 --> 00:34:00,599
(upbeat instrumental music)

815
00:34:00,599 --> 00:34:04,150
He sketches a five story base that fills the lot.

816
00:34:04,150 --> 00:34:07,540
On top of that, he puts a tower, but set back.

817
00:34:07,540 --> 00:34:11,000
He adds additional set backs making the tower narrower

818
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,952
{\an8}and narrower at the 21st, 25th,

819
00:34:14,952 --> 00:34:19,952
30th, 72nd, 81st and 85th floors.

820
00:34:22,754 --> 00:34:24,350
(metal screeching)

821
00:34:24,350 --> 00:34:27,040
It gradually recedes from a base at the top,

822
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:28,113
just like a pyramid.

823
00:34:28,980 --> 00:34:31,630
This was a plan to help shed more light on Manhattan.

824
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,960
It's called the Empire State Building.

825
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,380
And at 1,454 feet,

826
00:34:38,380 --> 00:34:40,610
becomes the tallest building in the world.

827
00:34:40,610 --> 00:34:43,550
So tall, in fact, it will tower three times

828
00:34:43,550 --> 00:34:46,310
higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza.

829
00:34:46,310 --> 00:34:48,810
This was a 4,500 year Egypt design

830
00:34:48,810 --> 00:34:51,597
leaving its mark on the greatest modern city in the world.

831
00:34:51,597 --> 00:34:53,283
And all thanks to Tut mania.

832
00:34:54,190 --> 00:34:55,390
For a guy who left such

833
00:34:55,390 --> 00:34:57,320
a major mark on the Big Apple,

834
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,223
Tut's afterlife address is pretty low key.

835
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,000
It's much smaller than you

836
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,110
would expect for a Pharaoh's tomb,

837
00:35:05,110 --> 00:35:07,820
compared to a lot of the other tombs

838
00:35:07,820 --> 00:35:10,213
that have been found in the Valley of the Kings.

839
00:35:11,330 --> 00:35:13,220
There are four rooms in the tomb

840
00:35:13,220 --> 00:35:17,790
with dimensions that add up to a total of 908 square feet.

841
00:35:17,790 --> 00:35:19,740
To give you an idea of how big that is,

842
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:22,250
compare it to your average

843
00:35:22,250 --> 00:35:27,030
Manhattan one bedroom apartment at 702 square feet.

844
00:35:27,030 --> 00:35:29,650
Pretty modest for a royal resting place,

845
00:35:29,650 --> 00:35:32,713
especially compared to one like the Taj Mahal.

846
00:35:33,780 --> 00:35:36,290
That site is 42 acres,

847
00:35:36,290 --> 00:35:39,253
or the same as about 31 football fields,

848
00:35:40,490 --> 00:35:43,920
or the mausoleum of the first Chin Emperor of China.

849
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:48,730
{\an8}That site covers 20 square miles, or half of Disney world.

850
00:35:48,730 --> 00:35:49,940
{\an8}By their standards,

851
00:35:49,940 --> 00:35:53,570
{\an8}King Tut's tomb isn't even a broom closet.

852
00:35:53,570 --> 00:35:57,861
With Carter and Carnarvon actually finding Tut's tomb,

853
00:35:57,861 --> 00:36:01,320
and the fact that it was so small and so inconspicuous

854
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:06,320
it's just hard to believe that that they were so lucky.

855
00:36:06,530 --> 00:36:09,110
But why is Tut's tomb so small

856
00:36:09,110 --> 00:36:11,270
compared to others in the Valley of the Kings?

857
00:36:11,270 --> 00:36:13,690
{\an8}His reign wasn't very significant.

858
00:36:13,690 --> 00:36:15,870
{\an8}He only ruled for about nine years

859
00:36:15,870 --> 00:36:18,220
during the New Kingdom in ancient Egypt.

860
00:36:18,220 --> 00:36:19,940
Did he do very much?

861
00:36:19,940 --> 00:36:21,800
And the thing is, not really.

862
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:25,240
So that was kind of us C minus sovereign,

863
00:36:25,240 --> 00:36:26,943
a historical underachiever.

864
00:36:28,220 --> 00:36:30,130
Try telling that to the 1970s, (laughing)

865
00:36:30,130 --> 00:36:34,080
when his tiny, but intact tomb will launch Tut mania two

866
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:37,548
and make the pharaoh a bigger star than ever before.

867
00:36:37,548 --> 00:36:38,550
(record scratching)

868
00:36:38,550 --> 00:36:43,550
In 1973, there is a war between Israel,

869
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,990
Syria, and Egypt called the Yom Kippur War.

870
00:36:46,990 --> 00:36:49,151
(dramatic instrumental music)

871
00:36:49,151 --> 00:36:51,502
And then Nixon intervenes.

872
00:36:51,502 --> 00:36:53,150
(phone ringing)

873
00:36:53,150 --> 00:36:55,110
And supports the Israelis.

874
00:36:55,110 --> 00:36:57,030
And because of this,

875
00:36:57,030 --> 00:37:00,150
there's a real backlash with the Arab states.

876
00:37:00,150 --> 00:37:02,840
They don't take this too lightly

877
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:06,563
and decide not to supply the US with oil.

878
00:37:06,563 --> 00:37:09,271
(funky instrumental music)

879
00:37:09,271 --> 00:37:12,030
The conflict sends oil prices skyrocketing

880
00:37:12,030 --> 00:37:14,640
from $3 a barrel to $12,

881
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:18,200
and causes long lines at the pump across the nation.

882
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:21,830
So Nixon's got a bit of trouble on his hands.

883
00:37:21,830 --> 00:37:24,700
He really has to make amends.

884
00:37:24,700 --> 00:37:26,270
Nixon comes up with a plan

885
00:37:26,270 --> 00:37:29,180
to flip the script with the Arab states.

886
00:37:29,180 --> 00:37:31,140
{\an8}Presidents always find unique ways to

887
00:37:31,140 --> 00:37:33,890
{\an8}find commonality with other countries.

888
00:37:33,890 --> 00:37:36,730
So he used the one thing he probably thought

889
00:37:36,730 --> 00:37:40,150
as a common ground to establish some relationship

890
00:37:40,150 --> 00:37:42,330
with the Middle East and with Egypt in particular.

891
00:37:42,330 --> 00:37:43,563
King Tut.

892
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:48,030
So Nixon travels to Egypt in 1974,

893
00:37:48,930 --> 00:37:51,540
asking if these treasures could come

894
00:37:51,540 --> 00:37:52,870
for this touring exhibition,

895
00:37:52,870 --> 00:37:54,270
because it was just seen that it would

896
00:37:54,270 --> 00:37:56,657
be an expression of goodwill,

897
00:37:56,657 --> 00:37:59,190
of people getting excited about Egypt,

898
00:37:59,190 --> 00:38:01,683
a collaboration between the two countries.

899
00:38:02,740 --> 00:38:04,330
It's also planned to beat

900
00:38:04,330 --> 00:38:06,523
the competition with simple numbers.

901
00:38:08,300 --> 00:38:11,530
An exhibition of Tut's treasures has recently completed

902
00:38:11,530 --> 00:38:14,429
a three city tour around the Soviet Union.

903
00:38:14,429 --> 00:38:15,986
(man speaking foreign language)

904
00:38:15,986 --> 00:38:19,550
(instrumental Russian music)

905
00:38:19,550 --> 00:38:22,576
To outdo his Cold War rivals,

906
00:38:22,576 --> 00:38:23,409
(phone ringing)

907
00:38:23,409 --> 00:38:25,330
Nixon persuades the Egyptians to

908
00:38:25,330 --> 00:38:28,310
put three more cities on the US itinerary.

909
00:38:28,310 --> 00:38:29,143
That's right.

910
00:38:29,143 --> 00:38:30,670
And on top of the 50 items

911
00:38:30,670 --> 00:38:32,720
that were sent behind the Iron Curtain,

912
00:38:32,720 --> 00:38:36,650
Nixon wheels and deals an extra five for the US.

913
00:38:36,650 --> 00:38:39,640
To be on the safe side, he has the whole kit and caboodle

914
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,969
transported to America in secret on a warship.

915
00:38:42,969 --> 00:38:44,290
(air horn sounding)

916
00:38:44,290 --> 00:38:47,400
When the King Tut artifacts

917
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:49,550
and treasures come to the United States,

918
00:38:49,550 --> 00:38:52,600
and they do this three-year tour throughout the country,

919
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:56,090
they were insured for over a billion dollars in their value.

920
00:38:56,090 --> 00:38:57,470
That's a staggering number.

921
00:38:57,470 --> 00:39:00,463
And especially for the time at the 1970s.

922
00:39:01,389 --> 00:39:04,000
50 Years after the first wave of Tut mania,

923
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,140
the old pharaoh is about to sweep

924
00:39:06,140 --> 00:39:07,969
the world off its feet once again.

925
00:39:07,969 --> 00:39:10,227
(dramatic instrumental music)

926
00:39:10,227 --> 00:39:12,108
(tape rewinding)

927
00:39:12,108 --> 00:39:13,940
(upbeat synthesizer music)

928
00:39:13,940 --> 00:39:18,470
In 1976, this huge tour of Tutankhamen treasures

929
00:39:18,470 --> 00:39:19,960
just happens in the US

930
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,690
and it's like 1922 all over again.

931
00:39:22,690 --> 00:39:24,990
Everybody goes nuts about it.

932
00:39:24,990 --> 00:39:27,880
Tut mania is back, bigger than ever.

933
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,065
And the proof is in the numbers.

934
00:39:30,065 --> 00:39:30,930
(money crinkling)

935
00:39:30,930 --> 00:39:31,960
Hey, get your tickets!

936
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:33,410
In Washington DC,

937
00:39:33,410 --> 00:39:36,474
the lineups circle three whole blocks.

938
00:39:36,474 --> 00:39:37,320
Tickets here!

939
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:41,250
{\an8}In Chicago, ticket holders face a seven hour wait.

940
00:39:41,250 --> 00:39:46,010
In Los Angeles, scalpers are selling $2 tickets for $35.

941
00:39:46,010 --> 00:39:46,843
Get your tickets!

942
00:39:46,843 --> 00:39:50,270
That's a markup of more than 1,500%.

943
00:39:50,270 --> 00:39:52,410
By the time the exhibition closes,

944
00:39:52,410 --> 00:39:54,530
after visits to Seattle and New York,

945
00:39:54,530 --> 00:39:57,393
more than 8 million people will have come see Tut.

946
00:39:58,301 --> 00:40:02,580
(upbeat instrumental music)

947
00:40:02,580 --> 00:40:07,580
Nixon bringing a mummy on tour as a political statement,

948
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:09,420
wouldn't have been my first move.

949
00:40:09,420 --> 00:40:12,350
I don't think there were many political tools

950
00:40:12,350 --> 00:40:15,650
that Nixon didn't use.

951
00:40:15,650 --> 00:40:17,360
I guess that kind of explains the curse.

952
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,900
We know Nixon didn't didn't finish well,

953
00:40:19,900 --> 00:40:22,730
as far as his job was concerned.

954
00:40:22,730 --> 00:40:25,166
I would've just gone for the good old ninth grade

955
00:40:25,166 --> 00:40:28,400
vote for me and I'll give you a cupcake sort of thing.

956
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:29,453
Isn't that all American politics?

957
00:40:29,453 --> 00:40:31,690
Isn't that the entire Senate just like dry,

958
00:40:31,690 --> 00:40:35,453
desiccated and mummified old husks of humans?

959
00:40:36,470 --> 00:40:37,750
That's the US Senate.

960
00:40:37,750 --> 00:40:39,770
Yeah, no, not that weird.

961
00:40:39,770 --> 00:40:41,773
Tut's smash hit tour of the seventies,

962
00:40:41,773 --> 00:40:43,923
culminates with a TV triumph.

963
00:40:45,220 --> 00:40:46,730
The high moment for King Tut would have

964
00:40:46,730 --> 00:40:49,800
to be when Steve Martin made a song about him on "SNL."

965
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:51,120
That's how you know you made it,

966
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,260
when you're parodied or there's satire

967
00:40:53,260 --> 00:40:54,978
about you on "Saturday Night Live."

968
00:40:54,978 --> 00:40:58,250
(funky instrumental music)

969
00:40:58,250 --> 00:41:00,490
The 1970s won't be the last time

970
00:41:00,490 --> 00:41:03,195
Tut finds himself caught up in politics.

971
00:41:03,195 --> 00:41:06,310
(tape rewinding)

972
00:41:06,310 --> 00:41:09,270
In 2011, he'll be called off the bench

973
00:41:09,270 --> 00:41:12,593
to help rally his people against an oppressive regime.

974
00:41:14,150 --> 00:41:18,680
The Arab Spring, which took place in 2011

975
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:21,120
and the Egyptian Revolution helped

976
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:25,000
to promote the emergence of street artists.

977
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,980
The streets of Cairo became a canvas, if you will,

978
00:41:27,980 --> 00:41:29,610
for all these different artworks,

979
00:41:29,610 --> 00:41:31,059
by all these different artists.

980
00:41:31,059 --> 00:41:34,340
(crowd chattering)

981
00:41:34,340 --> 00:41:36,950
One known only by his alias, Kaiser,

982
00:41:36,950 --> 00:41:39,363
paints a familiar image of protest.

983
00:41:40,620 --> 00:41:42,720
(spray paint spraying)

984
00:41:42,720 --> 00:41:45,803
The Argentinian revolutionary, Che Guevara.

985
00:41:46,850 --> 00:41:49,300
He's wearing his trademark beret,

986
00:41:49,300 --> 00:41:51,240
only this time he's also sporting

987
00:41:51,240 --> 00:41:53,454
King Tut's ceremonial beard.

988
00:41:53,454 --> 00:41:54,450
(exotic instrumental music)

989
00:41:54,450 --> 00:41:59,150
I visited Egypt not that long after the Revolution

990
00:41:59,150 --> 00:42:02,810
and there was a lot of graffiti that was around,

991
00:42:02,810 --> 00:42:04,980
and one of the images that you would

992
00:42:04,980 --> 00:42:08,324
see as graffiti was the mask of Tutankhamen.

993
00:42:08,324 --> 00:42:09,530
(camera snapping)

994
00:42:09,530 --> 00:42:11,790
Street, artist Marwan Shahin

995
00:42:11,790 --> 00:42:14,210
follows Kaiser's lead and paints an image of

996
00:42:14,210 --> 00:42:16,160
the fictional anarchist V,

997
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:18,420
from the "V for Vendetta" comic series,

998
00:42:18,420 --> 00:42:21,120
wearing his trademark Guy Fawkes mask,

999
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:23,653
along with the headdress of the teenage pharaoh.

1000
00:42:24,981 --> 00:42:25,814
(camera snapping)

1001
00:42:25,814 --> 00:42:28,530
The mask of King Tutankhamen is actually fused together

1002
00:42:28,530 --> 00:42:31,320
with the Guy Fawkes mask from the UK.

1003
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:36,200
And so by using this icon, like the Guy Fawkes Mask,

1004
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:38,780
which represents, the people fighting against

1005
00:42:38,780 --> 00:42:41,460
their government and fusing that with

1006
00:42:41,460 --> 00:42:44,543
the iconic funerary gold mask of King Tutankhamen,

1007
00:42:45,570 --> 00:42:48,640
the artists were speaking directly to the revolutionaries

1008
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:52,480
to hold fast to their ancestral roots

1009
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:55,930
and to fight against this oppressive regime

1010
00:42:55,930 --> 00:42:57,742
that was currently ruling Egypt.

1011
00:42:57,742 --> 00:42:59,050
(camera snapping)

1012
00:42:59,050 --> 00:43:00,580
The image quickly becomes

1013
00:43:00,580 --> 00:43:02,630
a revolutionary signature piece,

1014
00:43:02,630 --> 00:43:05,580
emblazoned on walls as a monochrome stencil,

1015
00:43:05,580 --> 00:43:08,093
painted mural or pop art poster.

1016
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:10,790
You've got a people rising up,

1017
00:43:10,790 --> 00:43:14,361
wanting to assert their independence and their freedom,

1018
00:43:14,361 --> 00:43:15,840
and they're looking back to this image

1019
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,929
of Tutankhamen to represent them in that.

1020
00:43:18,929 --> 00:43:20,630
(machinery whirring)

1021
00:43:20,630 --> 00:43:24,230
King Tut being used as a political symbol.

1022
00:43:24,230 --> 00:43:25,370
I mean, if he has a problem with it,

1023
00:43:25,370 --> 00:43:27,003
he can't say anything now.

1024
00:43:28,540 --> 00:43:30,280
Being a mummy, you know?

1025
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:32,014
I'd rather King Tut than Bieber.

1026
00:43:32,014 --> 00:43:33,290
(goofy cartoon music)

1027
00:43:33,290 --> 00:43:35,330
After 18 days of protest,

1028
00:43:35,330 --> 00:43:37,430
the Egyptian regime is toppled.

1029
00:43:37,430 --> 00:43:38,263
Game over.

1030
00:43:39,650 --> 00:43:42,743
And Tut, he's still just as popular as ever.

1031
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:45,520
The irony is someone like King Tut

1032
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:50,070
would be adamantly against and oppressing a revolution,

1033
00:43:50,070 --> 00:43:52,060
but using his image makes perfect sense,

1034
00:43:52,060 --> 00:43:54,740
because that is the one image that everyone in Egypt

1035
00:43:54,740 --> 00:43:57,954
can get behind and obviously understands.

1036
00:43:57,954 --> 00:43:59,794
(tape rewinding)

1037
00:43:59,794 --> 00:44:03,627
(dramatic instrumental music)

1038
00:44:04,610 --> 00:44:06,500
The great pharaohs of ancient Egypt

1039
00:44:06,500 --> 00:44:10,050
went to epic lengths for a shot at eternal life,

1040
00:44:10,050 --> 00:44:13,930
but all their best laid plans were spoiled by looters.

1041
00:44:13,930 --> 00:44:17,730
By drifting into obscurity for more than 3000 years,

1042
00:44:17,730 --> 00:44:20,564
young and insignificant Tutankhamen may

1043
00:44:20,564 --> 00:44:24,163
be the only one who truly succeeded.

1044
00:44:25,210 --> 00:44:29,140
Because his tomb is so small, and it's so iconic,

1045
00:44:29,140 --> 00:44:31,010
and also quite weird,

1046
00:44:31,010 --> 00:44:34,500
we are continuing to say his name in history.

1047
00:44:34,500 --> 00:44:36,950
The numbers just give us a handle

1048
00:44:36,950 --> 00:44:40,320
on such an incredible find,

1049
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:44,030
{\an8}more than 5,000 objects that came out of that tomb.

1050
00:44:44,030 --> 00:44:48,433
More than 100 objects just found on the mummy itself.

1051
00:44:49,740 --> 00:44:54,000
The millions of people who have visited the exhibits.

1052
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,520
It just gives you a sense of the scale

1053
00:44:56,520 --> 00:45:00,200
and the importance of the entire phenomenon.

1054
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:02,410
You do not have to rule the longest

1055
00:45:02,410 --> 00:45:04,190
and you do not have to be the best at what you do.

1056
00:45:04,190 --> 00:45:05,920
You just have to be the most famous.

1057
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:08,050
Everyone will always know that name.

1058
00:45:08,050 --> 00:45:09,300
I promise you I could step into

1059
00:45:09,300 --> 00:45:10,500
a classroom 50 years from now,

1060
00:45:10,500 --> 00:45:12,340
if I could say name an Egyptian king,

1061
00:45:12,340 --> 00:45:13,908
they will know King Tut.

1062
00:45:13,908 --> 00:45:17,317
(upbeat instrumental music)

1063
00:45:17,317 --> 00:45:19,691
When I say King Tut, you say?

1064
00:45:19,691 --> 00:45:20,524
What?

1065
00:45:20,524 --> 00:45:21,610
If I had to go to the afterlife,

1066
00:45:21,610 --> 00:45:23,850
I would totally bring my dog if he was already dead.

1067
00:45:23,850 --> 00:45:25,287
Yeah, king at the age of nine.

1068
00:45:25,287 --> 00:45:29,570
I would have started wars with Rome by my 10th birthday.

1069
00:45:29,570 --> 00:45:30,920
I'm not killing my dog to bring him.

1070
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:33,140
I remember Tut mania from when

1071
00:45:33,140 --> 00:45:35,133
I was a kid in the seventies.

1072
00:45:35,133 --> 00:45:40,133
And they were all, I think, using a lot of cocaine.

1073
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:42,710
I guess my husband, if you have to.

1074
00:45:42,710 --> 00:45:45,850
I want flamingos and polar bears in my court.

1075
00:45:45,850 --> 00:45:48,760
That's because I can, and I'm nine years old.

1076
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:50,500
Oh, "Walk Like an Egyptian," The Bangles.

1077
00:45:50,500 --> 00:45:52,683
Yeah, that was a good one too.

1078
00:45:52,683 --> 00:45:55,330
♪ Walk like an Egyptian ♪

1079
00:45:55,330 --> 00:45:56,170
Oh god. (laughing)

1080
00:45:56,170 --> 00:45:57,072
Terrible.

1081
00:45:57,072 --> 00:46:00,739
(exotic instrumental music)