Report in Egypt where the mummy of Tutankhamon has just been moved in a Plexiglass container to protect it from the assaults of time. This device allows visitors to see the mummy for the first time during their visit. Interview with Zahi HAWASS, general secretary of the Egyptian Antiquities Council. Alternating factual and archival images.
On the occasion of the next exhibition "Toutânkhamon et son temps" at the Petit Palais in Paris, presentation by Georges GORSE of the pharaoh and his funeral mask.
Christian LEBLANC, head of the Archaeological Mission of Thebes-Oues, and Christian JACQ, Egyptologist and writer, explain the most common hypotheses that explain the death of Pharaoh Toutânkhamon at only 18 years old.
Interview with Egyptologist Bernard BRUYERE who attended the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamon in 1922. He speaks about the legendary curse of the tomb of Tutankhamon.
The writer Christian JACQ returns to the youth of Howard CARTER that nothing predisposed to discover the tomb of Tutankhamon, except his adventurous character.