"Lost Treasures of Egypt" (2019–2020): Season 1, Episode 1 - Tutankhamun's Treasures - full transcript

NARRATOR: Egypt,
the richest source of

archaeological
treasures on the planet.

WOMAN: Oh,
that's a fabulous one.

NARRATOR: Beneath this desert landscape lie
the secrets of this ancient civilization.

JOHN: Wow, can you see why the
Pharaoh's chose this place?

NARRATOR: Now for a full season of
excavations, our cameras have been given

unprecedented access to follow
teams on the frontline of archaeology.

MAN: I'm driving so fast
because I'm so excited!

WOMAN: It's an entrance,
we can see an entrance!

NARRATOR: Revealing
buried secrets.

MAN: I have just been told
that they have found something.



Oh my gosh!

JOHN: A sphinx!

NARRATOR: And making discoveries
that could rewrite ancient history.

This time, new secrets of
the boy king, Tutankhamun.

Alia uses pioneering technology to reveal
startling new evidence about his tomb,

and why it remained
hidden for 3,000 years.

ALIAA: A lot of robberies were
going on, how was it not found?

NARRATOR: Eissa's team discovers a long-lost
cache of King Tutankhamun's treasures.

NARRATOR: And Alejandro discovers
extraordinary burial treasures in a

4,000 year-old tomb.

ALEJANDRO: Congratulations!

NARRATOR: The Valley of
the Kings, 3,500 years ago,

the Great Pharaohs stopped
building pyramids as their tombs.

They chose these secluded
cliffs to become their cemetery.



Today, archaeologists come from all over
the world to unlock the mysteries still

hidden in this City of the Dead.

It's the first day in the Valley
for Cairo born Egyptologist

Aliaa Ismail and her team.

ALIAA: There's a real
buzz in this place.

People are coming from all over the
world, coming to the Valley, it's amazing.

I'm so proud to
have such ancestry.

It's one of the most famous
necropolises in the world and I think what

is special is that
it comes out of nowhere.

NARRATOR: Over 300 miles
south of Cairo, in the heart of Egypt,

lie the limestone cliffs
of the Valley of the Kings.

After 200 years of excavation,

archaeologists have located
sixty-five tombs hidden among the rocks.

But only one has ever been
found with its treasure still inside,

it belonged to the
Pharaoh, Tutankhamun.

ALIAA: This here is
number 62, Tutankhamun.

One of those great
finds of the century.

NARRATOR: British explorer Howard
Carter discovered Tutankhamun's

tomb in 1922.

One of his teams spotted steps
leading down through the sand.

They led to the tomb entrance, buried
beneath meters of rubble and debris.

What Carter found inside inspired
archaeologists for generations to come.

Deep inside the mountains,

amid a maze of tunnels that
bore deep through the rock,

Carter reached the tomb of Tutankhamun
hidden right in the center of the Valley.

Inside, he found treasures
unlike anything ever seen before.

Over 5,000 priceless artifacts
including golden statues.

In the burial chamber the Pharaoh's
mummy, wearing a golden death mask,

was placed inside a coffin made of
more than 200 pounds of solid gold.

This intact tomb made Tutankhamun
the most famous of the Pharaohs.

Now Aliaa is investigating
this golden Pharaoh's life.

ALIAA: Wow.

NARRATOR: And why his tomb
remained hidden for so long.

Aliaa's team has been scanning and
documenting the tomb for the last ten years,

and they've made a
remarkable discovery.

ALIAA: The idea here is to understand
what's going on when you look at

the data void of color.

NARRATOR: The scans strip away the paint
on the walls to reveal unusual markings.

ALIAA: This was the main scene,
and here is the 3D of the North Wall.

So, as you can see here, the silhouette
of an image and this would have

been done while
they were painting.

NARRATOR: The images show the
indented outline of the face hidden below.

It's caused by the tip of the
paintbrush if you start painting when

the plaster is still wet.

ALIAA: This is why the brushes would
have made a very light impression and

this allows us to
understand it was rushed.

NARRATOR: But why would the tomb
builders rush such an important job?

The pictures on the wall
reveal another set of clues.

Despite becoming the most
famous Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt,

Tutankhamun did
not have a lengthy reign.

He was only a nine-year-old
boy when he became King,

and relied on trusted advisors
to help rule his vast empire.

As Tutankhamun grew older,

he was known to portray
himself as a warrior king,

riding into battle on a chariot.

But the boy King suffered from
multiple illnesses, including Malaria.

He was only nineteen-years-old
when he unexpectantly died.

(speaking in Arabic).

NARRATOR: Aliaa thinks the marks her
scans reveal in the plaster are evidence

of a hurried burial due to
Tutankhamun's sudden death.

ALIAA: The decorated part of the tomb is
very small, it's only the burial chamber.

The rest of the tomb
is not decorated.

If they had more time, all of
this was going to be decorated.

NARRATOR: While the tomb's construction
may have been rushed, its treasures were

everything a Pharaoh could
desire to take him into the afterlife.

So why did this tomb lay hidden below a
layer of rock for thousands of years when

all the other tombs in
the Valley were looted?

To solve this mystery, Aliaa will turn
to new technology as she moves her

investigation out
into the Valley.

300 miles north, in Giza,

in the shadow of the pyramids,
the biggest treasure haul in history

is getting a new home, a one-billion-dollar
museum and research center.

When completed, the Grand Egyptian Museum
will reunite all of Tutankhamun's treasures

in one place, for the
first time in 100 years.

TAREK: Having all of the pieces
from the tomb of Tutankhamun together

in one place, this will be a
fantastic chance to find new facts,

new hidden things
about Tutankhamun.

NARRATOR: After Carter removed
the treasures from Tut's tomb,

they ended up
in museums around Egypt.

Now, for the first time, scientists
and Egyptologists will use modern

technology to
analyze each object.

TAREK: Some details reappear and give
us new information about these antiquities.

NARRATOR: But some of Tut's
greatest treasures are yet to arrive.

300 miles south in the Luxor Museum,
Eissa Zidan is preparing 122 of these

priceless artifacts
for the move to Giza.

NARRATOR: Eissa's packing list
includes one of Tut's famous chariots,

intricate model boats and

a unique head of the cow Goddess,
Hathor, elaborately gilded with gold.

(speaking in Arabic).

NARRATOR: After just four hours,
Eissa's packing suddenly comes to a halt.

One of his teams has discovered
something completely unexpected

in the storeroom.

It's an antique box that Howard Carter
used to pack and transport Tutankhamun's

treasures out of the tomb.

NARRATOR: The box has been
missing, presumed lost, for decades,

and no one knows what
treasures it may hold.

120 miles south of the Valley
of the Kings, near Aswan,

a Spanish Research
Team from Jaen University

is hoping to follow in
Carter's footsteps and make new

discoveries that
could rewrite history.

(speaking in Arabic).

Professor Alejandro Jimenez-Serrano
heads the largest foreign team

working in Egypt.

Today is the first
day of the dig season.

ALEJANDRO: Sorry for the mess.

We are sharing the room,
three researchers of the team.

This is my, my bed,
supposedly the best one.

(laughs).

Sorry.

(coughs).

It's amazing to get up and the first
thing that you see apart from the ugly face

of your roommates is the
Qubbet el-Hawa, the hill.

NARRATOR: Qubbet el-Hawa is one of
the largest ancient burial sites in Egypt.

So far, 100 tombs
have been discovered here.

They belong to the nobles who
governed Egypt hundreds of years before

the Pharaoh's buried in
the Valley of the Kings.

(speaking in Arabic).

Alejandro's mission is to hunt for
more unopened tombs and reveal more

about these early Egyptians.

ALEJANDRO: It's difficult
to explain how I feel.

Not only nervous, it's
exciting, it's a mix of feelings.

It's an honor to...

to come every year.

Now here comes the most
difficult part of the day,

to climb the hill.

NARRATOR: This is the
team's tenth year digging here.

WOMAN: It's so nice
to be here again.

(laughs).

NARRATOR: There's a reason
why everyone is excited to be back.

Last year, Alejandro found
the entranced to a sealed tomb,

but his permit expired
before he could explore inside.

ALEJANDRO: Today is 40 degrees,
and working underneath the sun,

today's gonna be tough.

NARRATOR: To protect against
modern day tomb-robbers,

they put a steel security
door to block the entrance

of the vertical shaft that leads
to the sealed burial chamber.

ALEJANDRO: Well it has been one-year waiting,
one-year imagining the possibilities.

I'm very excited.

NARRATOR: In Luxor, Eissa's team
packs Tutankhamun's treasures for the move

to the Grand Egyptian
Museum in Giza.

But in the storeroom,

Eissa is ready to open
Carter's long-lost box to discover

what's inside.

NARRATOR: The team gathers around to see
if the box really does contain priceless

treasures from
Tutankhamun's tomb.

MOHAMMAD: Ah.

(laughter)

MAN: Fantastic.
MOHAMMAD: It's amazing.

NARRATOR: These delicate
wooden pieces are ancient boat parts.

NARRATOR: Storeroom records suggest
they could be missing from a model boat

Howard Carter
found in Tutankhamun's tomb.

NARRATOR: According to
ancient Egyptian belief,

boats played a
key role after death.

So, placing model boats into
tombs was a vital part of any burial.

The vessels also came complete with
crew because it was believed the replicas

would come to life and help with
fishing and transport in the underworld.

The Pharaohs used a special vessel
to sail across the sky for eternity.

Ordinary people also thought
they could reach the afterlife by boat,

rowing on the Nile
and into the next world.

MOHAMMAD: You can see here
the date of the newspaper,

it's Sunday 5th
of November, 1933.

NARRATOR: To discover
where these pieces came from,

Mohammad inspects
Carter's original inventory.

NARRATOR: Records show that
the box was sent to Luxor in 1973

but had gone missing,
presumed lost or stolen.

NARRATOR: Eissa thinks the rest of
the boat is safe in the new Cairo lab,

so they may finally
be able to reunite it.

To transport
the treasures to Giza,

Eissa's team must traverse
400 miles of barren desert roads

and crowded city streets before they
reach the safety of the new museum.

It will take two trucks to transport
all 122 of the artifacts to Giza.

EISSA: This a very, very
big moment for the collection,

this is the final
trip of Tutankhamun.

NARRATOR: But with such
priceless relics on board,

there's concern the convoy
could be a target for a hijacking.

EISSA: We have a good
police and good army.

They will follow us during moving
from Luxor until arrive to Cairo.

NARRATOR: With security
in place, it's time to roll.

They now face a grueling twelve-hour
journey through the desert to

reach Giza before nightfall.

Ever since Carter's discovery of
Tutankhamun's priceless golden treasures,

archaeologists have continued to
try and figure out where and how the

ancient Egyptians found
vast quantities of gold.

Fifty-miles south
of the Valley of the Kings,

on the edge of
the Eastern Desert,

French gold expert Thomas Faucher
and archaeologist John Ward are

on the hunt for the origins
of Tutankhamun's gold.

THOMAS: So, I'm going to...

JOHN: What are you
waiting for, a traffic signal?

NARRATOR: The Eastern Desert covers 85,000
square-miles of remote barren wilderness.

Some of the rock here contains
tiny grains of gold locked inside.

Thomas has studied ancient gold
mining techniques for seven years.

Now he wants to see if he
can find any evidence of it.

But this part of the desert
is a risky place to be.

THOMAS: The thing is we need to leave
before dark because it's not safe if we are

staying there because we can lose
our way, we can have an accident and

it's also at the sunset that
all the snakes are going out.

JOHN: Snakes?

THOMAS: Yeah, vipers.

JOHN: No one told me about...

THOMAS: There are
horrid vipers, yeah.

NARRATOR: The first
stop, an ancient well.

It could provide clues to the
location of mining communities during

the time of Tutankhamun.

THOMAS: This is the well just
right in front of us here.

JOHN: It's dry.

My God, that's a long way down.

NARRATOR: The well might be
dry today, but it was so important to

the ancient Egyptians,
they built a temple to honor it.

JOHN: It's beautiful isn't it?

They actually applied a plaster
gyp ceiling and then applied the paint.

Amazing.

NARRATOR: The text engraved on
these walls reveals clues about the

gold miners and
where they were heading.

Ancient engineers built a network of
wells and rest stops stretching all the way

across the desert, each
a day's walk from the last,

enabling travelers and miners

to safely cross and
explore the barren desert.

The temple carvings indicate
these wells led toward the mines.

Thomas hopes he will be able to
find some evidence of the people

behind Tutankhamun's
goldmining operations.

THOMAS: Now it's time
to go deeper East...

NARRATOR: Like an ancient
treasure map, they must follow the trail of

wells further into the desert.

In Aswan, at the ancient
burial site of Qubbet el-Hawa,

Alejandro is about to
open a 4,000-year-old tomb.

They're on the hunt for whatever
burial treasure may be inside.

ALEJANDRO: I don't know who
is more nervous, me or my team.

I want to go now!

(laughs).

NARRATOR: After a year of waiting,
Alejandro can finally enter the tomb.

ALEJANDRO: It's amazing.

NARRATOR: It contains a
4,000-year-old coffin.

Workers have inserted a box covered
in acid-free paper inside the coffin to

stop it from collapsing
while they examine the tomb.

(sighs).

ALEJANDRO: There, we
have been very lucky.

It's impossible to explain
the feelings that I'm having.

The burial consisted in two coffins,
the outer coffin and the inner coffin.

NARRATOR: Among the
debris of the outer coffin,

Alejandro spots
something extraordinary.

ALEJANDRO: It is full of wooden
models, but unfortunately, the outer

coffin fall over them.

NARRATOR: The chamber
is full of model boats,

similar to the one
in Tutankhamun's tomb.

ALEJANDRO: To find this
funerary boat in a tomb is rare today.

NARRATOR: But there's not just
one, there are four, complete with crew.

ALEJANDRO: You want to laugh,
you want to shout, you want to cry.

NARRATOR: This is the first time
in seventy-years a set of boats like

this has been found.

This discovery gives Alejandro an
extremely rare opportunity to study

such important burial goods.

But first he has to extract
them from the tomb safely.

Alejandro calls in his team
of conservation specialists,

Sara and Theresa.

NARRATOR: Termites have
attacked the wooden boats.

Sara sprays on a liquid
adhesive to hold them together.

ALEJANDRO: So, we will see if
they are capable to make a miracle.

NARRATOR: They prepare a foam-lined
cradle to support the boat for the move

to the team's restoration lab, but the
wooden hull is stuck to the tomb floor.

It'll require surgical precision
using scalpels to free it.

ALEJANDRO: From the tomb to
the restoration lab we are talking

about perhaps 40-meters.

But today's very windy which
is very, very aggressive.

NARRATOR: The ancient
boats are extremely fragile.

ALEJANDRO: Get ready.

NARRATOR: With a drop in the wind, the team
sees the chance to remove the first boat.

♪

ALEJANDRO: Perfect.
That was exciting.

One of the best
moments in my career.

WOMAN: We have 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8 person.

ALEJANDRO: We take many weeks
to clean it and fix the pieces that were

broken some centuries ago.

NARRATOR: While the team
gets to work on the boat,

Alejandro can finally open the
coffin to see who and what is inside.

In the middle of the desert,

the convoy carrying
Tutankhamun's priceless

treasures is two hours into its
journey when Eissa spots a problem.

NARRATOR: A thermal blanket protecting
Tut's golden chariot is coming loose.

If it flies off, it
could cause a crash.

NARRATOR: The unscheduled
stop in the desert makes this convoy,

carrying the world's most priceless
treasures, a potential target for hijackers.

(speaking in Arabic).

NARRATOR: Eissa and his team are
unable to secure the loose thermal covering

protecting Tut's chariot.

NARRATOR: Removing the cover,

they risk the scorching desert
heat potentially damaging

the priceless treasure.

EISSA: Everything is okay.

NARRATOR: Now, Eissa needs
to get the convoy moving.

HASSAN: We hope to
arrive to Cairo safely.

NARRATOR: In the Valley, Egyptologist
Aliaa Ismail is on a mission to

discover how Tutankhamun's tomb and
treasures remained hidden for 3,000 years.

ALIAA: A lot of robberies were going
on in ancient times and modern times.

But it seems that this
particular tomb was not found.

How was it not found?

NARRATOR: The ancient engineers
of Tutankhamun's tomb had a plan.

Inside the mountain, they went to
great lengths to conceal the tomb.

The Pharaoh's burial chamber
is located 26 feet underground,

and is defended
from the inside out.

Engineers constructed a wall
to block off the burial chamber.

They filled the corridor leading
to the King with tons of rubble,

before sealing a final doorway and
covering Tutankhamun's tomb with

a vast amount of boulders under earth
standard tomb protection of the day.

But when Carter discovered this
tomb, it had more material on top than

any other in the Valley.

This may explain how it remained
undiscovered for over 3,000 years.

But how did this extra
rock and debris get here?

Aliaa joins German Geologist
Martin Ziegler to investigate.

MARTIN: If you want to understand the
evolution of the Valley of the Kings, you

need to also understand
the evolution of the rock.

NARRATOR: Martin thinks there
could be clues in the rocks at the

entrance to a nearby tomb.

MARTIN: Just at the entrance
of it, a slab is just hanging above,

a rock basically could
fall out of the cliff.

NARRATOR: Egypt is hit with
dozens of earthquakes each year.

So, Martin's installed a seismometer
to measure any vibrations that

could trigger rock falls.

MARTIN: With this one
we calculate it to be...

weigh about 600 to 700 kilometers
from the Valley of the Kings.

ALIAA: What if an
earthquake would...

were to happen like much closer to the
Valley of the Kings, how would it affect it?

MARTIN: A very big earthquake
could destabilize some rock portions.

So, when you look in the...

in the history of recorded earthquakes,
the historic timescales, let's say the

thousands of years, we have some records
of earthquakes of that type of magnitude.

NARRATOR: So, could rock falls caused
by earthquakes 3,000 years ago account

for the extra tons of rock that covered
the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb?

MARTIN: From the geological past and the
historic point of view, they could have rock

falls or rock slides that are triggered
by earthquakes covering tombs.

NARRATOR: But there are no cliffs
directly above Tutankhamun's tomb, so it

wouldn't have been hit
by a direct rockfall.

How did so much extra material travel
down the valley and completely cover

the entrance to the tomb?

To solve this mystery Aliaa
and Martin must take to the air.

Deep in the Eastern Desert, Thomas and John
are looking for evidence of the miners who

produced the gold for
Tutankhamun's treasures.

They're trying to find a route of
ancient wells that the goldminers would

have followed as they
travelled to the mines.

JOHN: It's like looking
for a needle in a haystack.

But I'm losing a few kidneys.

(laughs).

NARRATOR: Seventy miles
from the last ancient well,

Thomas and John
head into the unknown.

With their G-P-S broken down,
they now risk getting completely lost.

JOHN: This piece of
technology is defunct!

It is not working.

Look here, it's literally
on the right side.

So, we are now at the back end.

So, we need to turn around.

NARRATOR: But after two days of
searching, John thinks they may have

finally found something.

JOHN: What's that over there?

At the base of that
mountain there?

So, we found it!

THOMAS: Okay, so it looks that
we've found a very interesting place here.

It's a settlement.

NARRATOR: It may look like scattered stones
and debris, but to Thomas' expert eye,

he can see the outline
of ancient buildings.

THOMAS: We have the huts where the people
were living and where they were working.

Yeah, we definitely have
here the evidence...

JOHN: Oh Thomas...
THOMAS: Here...

I mean people have been
working here and we see, yeah,

there are even more over there.

NARRATOR: As they get closer,

John spots the tools the ancient
miners would have used to extract

gold from the rocks.

JOHN: Oh.

THOMAS: Yeah, that's
the grinding stone.

JOHN: That's a pounder.

THOMAS: Yeah, that's
a pounder. Yeah, exactly.

JOHN: That's what
they would break...

THOMAS: Yeah they would... JOHN:
The quartz with. THOMAS: Yeah.

NARRATOR: It's the remains of
an ancient goldmining camp.

JOHN: I mean how many people
are we talking, 20, 30?

THOMAS: Yeah maybe there were
like families living here.

NARRATOR: Thomas has studied
ancient mining techniques for years.

But seeing this evidence first-hand brings
home the hardships the miners endured.

THOMAS: You start from a piece of
quartz like this and you want to make

product out of it.

So, you need to crush it.

And you have to imagine
how much pain it takes just

to break a
single piece of quartz,

doing that like all day long, in the
sun, pounding and pounding and

grinding and grinding
and doing that for years.

NARRATOR: Evidence here paints
a picture of the life of desert miners.

They cut shafts stretching up to thirty-two
feet deep into the stone in search of

precious seams of quartz
rock that contained gold.

Crushing the quartz was
a massive undertaking.

Mining experts have calculated that
a team of twenty people would take

a week to process enough stone
to make just a spoonful of gold.

THOMAS: That's heavy.

JOHN: Seriously.

NARRATOR: Sadly, there is very little evidence
left of these ancient mines, but these

settlements provide new insight into
the communities that lived such hard lives

processing the gold.

THOMAS: We have all the material
they were using for sure, that they were

working here to extract and process the
gold to send it to the Valley of the Kings.

JOHN: We've found it.
THOMAS: We've found it.

NARRATOR: In Aswan, Alejandro's
team prepares to remove the coffin from the

tomb they've opened.

Inscriptions reveal it belongs
to a man called Shemai.

ALEJANDRO: They have just
struck the lid of the coffin of Shemai.

Rebecca, you are the first person that
is looking at Shemai's face in 4000 years.

(speaking in Arabic).

Congratulations!

(laughs).

NARRATOR: The inner coffin
is intact, but extremely fragile.

Alejandro's team has reinforced it
to try and protect the mummy inside.

ALEJANDRO: It's difficult to
express the feelings that I have now.

It's a special moment because I'm studying
this family, and it's almost my second family.

NARRATOR: In the restoration
lab, the intricate beauty

of the model boats
is starting to appear.

Termites have eaten much of
the wood, but their excrement

has actually helped hold parts of the
boats together for thousands of years.

ALEJANDRO: We have some parts that are
still in a very good state of conservation.

This head of the man, it is covered
with excrement of the termites,

but the wood is still visible.

NARRATOR: Alejandro has spotted a
figure distinct from the other carvings.

ALEJANDRO: We can see in the middle of the
boat a yellow face which belongs to a mummy,

which would represent Shemai.

NARRATOR: This exceptional discovery
will help archaeologists understand

the evolution of burial
practices in ancient Egypt.

ALEJANDRO: I was dreaming
always to discover something like this,

and it's a dream that came true.

NARRATOR: Alejandro's next task is
to bring Shemai's mummy above ground

for the first time
in 4,000 years.

NARRATOR: In the
Valley of the Kings,

Aliaa and Martin look
for clues to explain why

Tutankhamun's tomb
remained hidden for so long.

They've got special permission from the
Government to use a drone to get a unique

perspective on the position
of Tutankhamun's tomb.

MARTIN: There we go.

MAN: If we look down we should be
over the Tutankhamun entrance right now.

MARTIN: Now we can see the cliffs in the
back, and we can see the central position of

the tomb.

And above we can see debris.

NARRATOR: Loose rock and debris
cover the cliffs behind Tut's tomb.

But the drone also reveals these flood
channels, carved into the rock by heavy rains

over thousands of years and
they could be the vital missing clue.

MARTIN: We think that if we have flash
flooding, that material can flow down in

these kinds of channels.

NARRATOR: Throughout history
the Valley has been hit by earthquakes,

and occasional flash floods.

The flood waters push rubble
downhill toward the tombs.

Tutankhamun's tomb lies in the spot
where the channels of water converge,

and dump tons of rock.

This, combined with stone chippings from
a tomb built above, buried the entrance

deeper and kept it hidden
for over 3,000 years.

ALIAA: It's very exciting for me as an
Egyptologist to see Tutankhamun's tomb

from up here and see how it
fits within the valley.

It is the prime location, it is
the one that was most protected.

He got the most
sheltered tomb of all.

NARRATOR: Tutankhamun was a boy King
who played a minor role in Egypt's history,

but because his tomb remained
hidden for thousands of years,

his treasure was kept
safe from robbers and

made him
the legend we know today.

In Aswan, the team is bringing the
mummy of ancient Egyptian Shemai

to the surface for the
first time in 4,000 years.

This is the culmination of ten
years of field work for Alejandro,

and an incredible opportunity
to learn more about Shemai.

ALEJANDRO: Oh 125,
it's quite short.

My daughter is more of less
like this and she's eight years old.

I expected that at least he would
be around 20-years-old or something.

It has been a surprise.

I never expected that
he could be just a boy.

On his coffin it was written that
he was the person in charge of

the administration of the store.

Controlling the store, you control the
people because you decide who is going

to receive food or not.

NARRATOR: This new evidence
reveals Shemai held a powerful position in

Egyptian Society at
a very young age.

He may not have been a Pharaoh,
but like the boy King Tutankhamun,

his status afforded him a tomb and burial goods
to ensure a safe passage into the afterlife

It's taken twelve hours, but
finally Eissa and his convoy of

Tutankhamun's treasures
arrive in the city.

It's very, very, very exciting.

We wait for this moment.

NARRATOR: Tarek Tawfik
the Museum Director,

is anxious to get
everything safely inside.

TAREK: The first cradles have to be
taken out, in order for the Tutankhamun

pieces to start emerging.

EISSA: Now I can say
I'm very, very happy.

Mission is complete, yes.

TAREK: It will be like
unpacking Christmas presents.

When we get out these pieces and find out
more details about how they complement the

whole story of King Tutankhamun.

NARRATOR: Eissa's team can
finally unpack the priceless treasures.

Scientists and Egyptologists
can now begin to study and

analyze each item in
their new high-tech lab.

Top of the list are the
newly discovered boat pieces.

MOHAMMAD: We'll check now in our
database which of them maybe related to any

of the boats in the storeroom.

NARRATOR: For almost 100 years, the
boat that was buried alongside Tutankhamun

to help him travel into the
afterlife has been missing its mast.

(speaking in Arabic).

HASSAN: Exactly!

MOHAMMAD: It's very beautiful.

It's amazing that after all these years, we
still have new discoveries and new secrets

for this golden King,
Tutankhamun.

NARRATOR: 100 years
after its discovery,

Tutankhamun's stunning
treasure is still

surprising the world.

And the Valley of the Kings

shows why it remains the
greatest place on Earth to

hunt for the secrets of
Egypt's famous Pharaohs.