SHOTLIST 1. Workmen lifting out golden lid of mummy from sarcophagus, zoom in on golden cover being moved to one side, pull back to sarcophagus, workmen looking in 2. Cutaway of wall of burial chamber decorated with pictures 3. Workmen pulling up on ropes from inside the sarcophagus the mummy of Tutankhamun, his face exposed above shroud covering him, pull back to wide as workers manoeuvre mummy 4. Close up exposed mummy of Tutankhamun, unwrapped to show whole body, pan right along exposed mummy 5. Wide top shot workers gently carrying Tutankhamun mummy out of burial chamber 6. Close up of head of mummy, pull out to mummy being put into glass display chamber 7. Close up of mummy's head 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities: "The reason that we moved the mummy from the tomb, or from the sarcophagus, to this case is to preserve the mummy. The most difficult thing for this mummy: there is five thousand people a day entering inside that tomb, every person gives about 20 grams of water, and this water becomes salt. In about 50 years what is remained from the mummy could be completely deteriorated." 9. Zoom out from mummy's feet to wide of case and Dr Hawass standing by glass case with mummy inside STORYLINE The linen wrapped mummy of King Tutankhamun was put on public display for the first time on Sunday, 85 years after the 3,000-year-old boy pharaoh's golden enshrined tomb and mummy were discovered in Luxor's famed Valley of the Kings. Archaeologists removed the 5 feet, 6 inches tall (170 centimetres) mummy from his stone sarcophagus in his underground tomb, momentarily pulling aside a white linen covering to reveal his shrivelled black face and body. The mummy of the 19-year-old pharaoh, whose life and death has captivated people for nearly a century, was placed in a climate-controlled glass box within his tomb, with only the face and feet showing under the linen covering. "The reason that we moved the mummy from the tomb, or from the sarcophagus, to this case is to preserve the mummy," said Dr Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. Hawass went on to say that displaying the mummy to the public without the case would have led eventually to its complete deterioration. "Five thousand people a day entering inside that tomb, every person gives about 20 grams of water, and this water becomes salt. In about 50 years what is remained from the mummy could be completely deteriorated," he said. Hawass said scientists began restoring King Tutankhamun's badly damaged mummy more than two years ago after it was removed briefly from its sarcophagus and placed into a CT scanner for the first time for further examination. The mystery surrounding King Tutankhamun and his glittering gold tomb has entranced ancient Egypt fans since Carter first discovered the hidden tomb on November 4, 1922, revealing a trove of fabulous gold and precious stone treasures. Archeologists in recent years have tried to resolve lingering questions over how he died and his precise royal lineage. Several books and documentaries dedicated to the young pharaoh, who is believed to have been the 12th ruler of ancient Egypt's 18th dynasty and ascended to the throne around the age of 8, are popular around the world. In an effort to try to solve the mysteries, scientists removed Tut's mummy from his tomb and placed it into a portable CT scanner for 15 minutes in 2005 to obtain a three-dimensional image. The scans were the first done on an Egyptian mummy and the results did rule out that Tut was violently murdered, however they stopped short of definitively concluding how he died around 1323B.C. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/46286c0ad89493c846879bae6f1383c0 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

• published: 21 Jul 2015
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