“Tutankhamon’s curse”. Who doesn’t know it. It was the inspiring source for many books and movies of great success, this legend has returned in the limelight the last days. This time a tac was fringhtened, which was used to examine the famous pharaoh’s mummy who lived more than 3000 years ago (1347 – 1339 BC). The machine was blocked for more than two hours, before it worked regularly. Besides the malaria that stroke the financier of the discovery in 1922, the english lard Carnavon, cousing his death, and an endless list of onedoctes, misfortunes of those involved in the story of the eighteen year old pharaoh who died in misterious circumstances, this element is today told today in the Egyptian weekly, in English language, the “Ahram weekly” Zahi Hawass, the expert who likes to be considered the “father” of the vestigia of ancient Egypt, has been able to put the find, found in rather bad condition, under the modern test of the TAC. To remove any doubt on the real cause of the death, today still misterious and often attibuted to conspiracies in the palace of the 18th dynasty, Hawass has sent a mobile scanner to the valley of the kings, on a big closed tir, with which there was “almost a road accident – the expert himself has said – arriving on the right side of Luxor. Anyway, after the unexpected and the unforeseen event the tac began to work again, and has fixed 1700 images in 15 minutes. Result: no proof is able to prove the nature of the young pharaohìs death. After the tac it has been possible to produce a digital reconstruction of the young pharaoh’s face. He wasn’t particularly handsome, but attractive, the nose was typically pointed, the glance was proud and fixed on the adversities of time. Anyway certainly a monarch who could trouble his collaborators because as he ascended to the throne at nine years old, if he would have lived, he would maybe have maintained the power longer than any predecessor or successor of his

Written by Gabriella Marturano - Torino