King Tut’s Tomb to Get Makeover

The famous Tomb of Tutankhamun will be under restoration for five years to clean up and restore the marvelous wall paintings. The paintings and artifacts along with the golden mask of the boy king has astounded the world since 1922. That is when the British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of the boy king. The project of the restoration is with the combined work of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities and Los Angeles based Getty Conservation Institute which in the past have restored other tombs nearby and designing a case to display the mummies. This tomb is visited by thousands of people every month, this brings the humidity and the heat which damages the more than 3,000 year old tomb. There are questions that pertain to wondering how he died at such a young age. With this being said, they have removed King Tut from his tomb and was placed in a portable CT Scanner for a 15 minute CT scan to get a three dimensional image. This was the first done on any Egyptian mummy. The end results were King Tut was violently murdered, but could not come up with a definitive conclusion of how he died around 1323 B.C.

Reading of history and new findings of history as on this article found at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories has always captured my attention. To hear that there are still people who care enough to try to preserve what was then for the future, to understand and learn is wonderful. I was interested and intrigued to read about how this restoration is planned to preserve what has taught and awed by thousands of people that travel to The Valley Of The Kings. I think you could say my outlook on this article changed I was curious to see what information they had of King Tut, and happy when I was done reading it to hear of the effort to save the artifacts.

This is my point, as you can read from Zahi Hawass he is in concern of the deterioration of the tomb and all that is in it. It isn’t about what we can bring to the museums but what can be kept as it was where it is. “I always see the tomb of King Tut and wonder about those spots, which no scientist has been able to explain," said Zahi Hawass, the head of the SCA, in a statement.

I found this to be an intriguing article of modern science. To know that our technology today can put this mummy in a glass air tight container to keep any chemicals or weathering from deteriorating the skeleton any further, leaves me somewhat speechless. This was also fascinating reading as for the pictures of the scientist actually in the process of removing the mummy and the last picture of what to be a possible resemblance of King Tut. I honestly feel that when you put a face or a figure to a story then it helps many people see and understand what was or might have been. I can’t imagine the tension in the air as the scientist removed the boy king from his place of rest. I wished this article offered more on its reading then it did as my anticipation grew with every sentence.