A series of documentaries narrated at the tongue of ancient Egyptian kings will be produced under an agreement signed between the US National Geographic Institution and the Supreme Council for Antiquities.

    The kings will relate secrets of their lives part of which will be revealed through a state-of-the-art scanning device which the SCA obtained from a well- known company.

    The first of these documentaries will be on Tutankhamen, the most controversial of ancient kings.

    His death as young as 18 is still a riddle that archaeologists have not yet revealed.

    The film will be fully produced by National Geographic Institution and the SCA will have the right to show it to visitors of the Egyptian Museum.

    Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the SCA said that the Tutankhamen collection discovered in 1922 was the best preserved of any of the royal tombs.

    The items pertain to the 18th dynasty, the most flourishing times of the New Kingdom that witnessed thriving trade relations with neighboring countries as well as military campaigns.

    The Tutankhamen collection composed 358 items including the magnificent gilded mask, three sarcophagi, furniture pieces and funerary items, statues, fishing tools and many others.

    Lord Carnavon, an English nobleman interested in archaeology had obtained an excavation license at the Valley of Kings in Luxor. He asked Howard Carter to undertake excavations in Thebes and he did discover the tomb of Tohotmos IV and the tomb of Yoya and Toya.

    He had to suspend excavation in 1914 owing to World War I and resumed work 1917 and in 1922 he shifted excavations to a site near the entrance of the tomb of Ramsis VI. Workers stumbled in a hole full of debris. They found that it led to stairs carved in rock that ended up with an entrance covered with mortar and sealed with a stamp of royal cemetery.

    The tomb when tapped yielded the best ever discovered of ancient antiquities.

    Dutch researchers had announced few years ago at their examination of the clothes of the young king found in his tomb indicate his affliction of a fatal disease.

    They said that the waist of the young Pharaoh was 30 cm more than the chest periphery which points to excessive indigestion.

    However, Dr. Hawass has reason to believe that Tut’s death was s a conspiracy having to do with conflict over authority.