The synthesis of Al2O3 - TiC composite powder can be achieved by reactive milling of powder mixtures of TiO2, Al and C. In this case the reactive milling occurs through a sudden highly exothermic self-sustaining reaction started after a certain milling time. Due to the high temperatures reached during the reaction, the products are formed as strong agglomerates. For the synthesis of the Al2O3 + TiC, probably due the high melting point of the reaction products, particularly of the TiC, these agglomerates are formed by crystallites in the nanometric range. In the present work, Al2O3 - TiC composite was synthesized by reactive milling in a shaker/mill apparatus, followed by a deagglomeration processing. The products of reactive milling were mixed with a commercial ultra-fine alumina powder to produce alumina matrix composites with 5 wt% of TiC. The powder densification was performed by hot pressing and by pressureless sintering between 1400 and 1600 degreesC. We report on the microstructure characterization of the dense TiC+Al2O3 Composites by SEM and TEM. It was observed that TiC is dispersed in the alumina matrix microstructure as both agglomerated inclusions and also dispersed nanometric inclusions.. Vickers Hardness measurements of the sintered composites indicated values of about 13.0GPa.