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Narrator: Egypt, the richest source of archaeological treasures on the planet.
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Salima: Oh, that's
a fabulous one!
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Narrator: Beneath this desert landscape...
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Lie the secrets of this ancient civilization.
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John: Wow, you can see why
the pharaohs chose this place.
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Narrator: Now, for a full season of excavations
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Our cameras have unprecedented access
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To follow teams on the frontline of archaeology...
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Ashraf: I'm driving so fast
because I'm so excited!
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Kathleen: It's an entrance,
we can see an entrance.
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Narrator: Revealing buried secrets...
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Antonio: I have just
been told that they
have found something.
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Don: Oh my god.
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Narrator: And making discoveries that could rewrite ancient history.
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This time, new secrets about one of egypt's greatest rulers...
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Workers: Hey-ah-ho!
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Narrator: The pharaoh queen, hatshepsut.
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Doctor szafranski discovers buried treasure at her magnificent temple...
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Narrator: The darnells uncover how she formed a mysterious
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Double identity to seize power...
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Colleen: 'for my beloved
daughter', not son.
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Narrator: And john and maria unearth a rare and intriguing statue.
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John: Hold, hold, hold,
hold, hold, hold, hold.
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Do you realize what you've
just pulled out of the sand?
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Narrator: Luxor, egypt...
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A landscape strewn with ancientruins and magnificent temples
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Built for the great pharaohs of egypt.
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Cut into the surrounding mountains lies the finest temple of them all.
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Its owner was a revolutionary,
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A rare female pharaoh,
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Called hatshepsut.
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Now archaeologists are searching for clues to reveal more about this
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Enigmatic pharaoh queen.
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Leading the hunt is polish archaeologist dr. Zbigniew szafranski.
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Narrator: The landscape is dominated by hatshepsut's immense temple,
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Constructed to commemorate her reign as a pharaoh.
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Ancient builders carved the site directly into the towering rocky cliffs.
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They built it in three separate levels,
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Each one a terrace connected by ramps over 100 feet long.
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At the top, 26 statues of the god of the underworld, osiris, stand as guardians.
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This masterpiece of ancient architecture is the key
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To the secrets of the pharaoh queen hatshepsut.
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Dr szafranski: It is an
exceptional building.
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The temple is unique in
the history of egyptian
architecture and in the
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History of the
world architecture.
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Narrator: Dr. Szafranski and his team have been excavating and restoring
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Hatshepsut's temple for the past 19 seasons.
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Dr szafranski: Hi, hi, hi!
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Narrator: They are on a mission to piece back together the temple ruins.
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120 years ago,
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Legendary british egyptologist howard carter
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Was part of the team that excavated this site.
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Much of the temple was buried and badly damaged,
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And little was known about its owner.
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Today, dr. Szafranski continues working to restore and rebuild the temple,
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To reveal the secrets of the pharaoh queen hatshepsut.
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Narrator: Hatshepsut was only the second woman to ever become a pharaoh,
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And the first for nearly 300 years.
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The fearless queen oversaw military campaigns to egypt's southern borders,
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And claimed to have visited the battlefield herself.
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She built a fleet of ships to sail the red sea
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And re-established an international trade network,
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Bringing back exotic goods and riches.
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Under hatshepsut, egypt prospered and she built giant monuments
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Across the country to show that she was in control.
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Hatshepsut's temple was just one of around ten megastructures she built
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During her 22 year reign.
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Across the nile she erected vast swathes of a giant temple complex called karnak,
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And a 98 foot obelisk, the largest standing in egypt today.
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But the extraordinary life of this radical woman still poses many mysteries.
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Now, archaeologists are on the hunt for new clues.
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80 miles south of her temple in gebel, el-silsila, lies one of hatshepsut's quarries.
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Here, on the banks of the nile...
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John: What do you want, mate?
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Narrator: John ward and maria nilsson from lund university
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Are getting ready to excavate at the quarry.
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John: These lovely eggs.
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Maria: Do you want some bread?
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Narrator: They want to investigate how hatshepsut used the
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Quarry during her reign.
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In dig season, they live on this boat with their baby son jonathan,
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Daughter freya, and dog carter.
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Maria: What are you
going to do today, freya?
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Maria: Yeah?
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John: When you're a little
bit older you can come
over and help daddy, yeah?
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Maria: Archaeology
and egypt itself has been
with me since I was a kid.
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I knew from the beginning.
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That I'm here now is
no surprise to family
and friends back home.
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The very day that I
gave birth to jonathan
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We were going through what
we actually needed on site.
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John: We never stop,
it never stops for us.
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Maria: No.
John: Even on christmas day.
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Guys, come on!
We're ready?
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Narrator: John and maria have spent the last ten seasons investigating this site,
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Used by hatshepsut.
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John: Hatshepsut was
responsible for removing
hundreds of thousands of
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Tons of sandstone
from this quarry alone,
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Let alone the other quarries
across the whole landscape.
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Narrator: With evidence of over 10,000 years of
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Human activity across 15 square miles,
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It's one of the largest archaeological sites in egypt.
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Here, the couple is excavatingan abandoned statue.
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They want to know if it belonged to hatshepsut.
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Maria: Good morning sphinx-y.
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Narrator: An unfinished, ram-headed sphinx.
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John: It's a unique find.
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Maria: It is.
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Narrator: The sphinx is a mythical beast modeled on a lion,
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But with the head of a human.
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Others were carved with the head of a ram, and are known as criosphinxes.
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They act as guardians, protecting the entrances to
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Pyramids, temples, and sacred sites.
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It's thought that hatshepsut started the greatest display
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Of sphinxes known to ancient egypt,
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An avenue of sphinxes, enhanced over the centuries,
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Stretching nearly two miles
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Between the great temples of luxor and karnak.
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Maria: It's absolutely
amazing, it's one of those
dreams to, to work with this
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Kind of monumental statue.
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John: Let's go there.
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Narrator: John and maria need to dig out the buried sphinx to confirm
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Where this statue was meant to go.
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They set to work to see what lies beneath the sand.
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John: Guys!
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(clapping).
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Narrator: 120 miles from luxor, in aswan, lies qubbet el-hawa.
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This site is a densely occupied necropolis of around 100 ancient tombs.
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Some have never been opened and hold secrets to how the necropolis
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Was being used during hatshepsut's time.
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Martina: It's amazing.
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Narrator: Archaeologist martina bardonová is part of a spanish team preparing
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To open up one of the unexplored tombs.
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Martina: When I was
about 15 I read about
archaeology in egypt,
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Then I completely fall in love.
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Narrator: Martina wants to excavate inside a new, unopened tomb, but before
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She can get to it she needs to clear a pathway through the sand outside.
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Martina: Everything
is covered.
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I'm thinking about which
was to take off the sand.
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The basic problem here.
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Narrator: Strong desert winds have blown sand in front of the tomb entrance.
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(speaking native language).
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Narrator: But after just an hour clearing a path,
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The team makes a discovery that could put a halt
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To everything.
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Martina: Aah!
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Narrator: A member of martina's team has found parts of a body hidden in the sand.
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Narrator: These human remains appear to be ancient.
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Martina: It's, basically
it's so fragile when, when
you touch it or when you,
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When even the sand around
moves it's just falling apart.
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We can put wet toilet
paper because otherwise
the bones crack.
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Woman: Yeah.
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Narrator: Martina needs to find out why this body is outside the tomb,
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And find any clues that will help her to put a date on the burial.
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As she clears away the sand, the bones reveal something even more unusual.
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Martina: It looks like a
child, it might be a child.
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Narrator: In the quarry at gebel el-silsila,
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John and maria are excavating
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What could be one of hatshepsut's sphinxes.
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John: Come and get
your apples and pears
now, come and get them!
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This is my
archaeological
field box,
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It's a little bit heavy,
but this is the prototype.
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A new version will come
next season I hope,
which will be lighter.
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At the moment we've just got a
nice stony layer on top which
goes for the first two to
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Three centimeters, then
beneath that if I stick my
little magical tool inside
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And then withdraw it,
it's full of that,
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Which to the untrained
eye is just black powder,
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Actually that's iron filings
from the chisels of the
quarrymen of these quarries.
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The sand still today contains
a memory of all that work
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That took place here
thousands of years ago.
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Narrator: The sand even holds clues about what the workers had for lunch.
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John: Fish bones.
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Someone could've had a
nice meal down by the
belly of the sphinx.
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Narrator: As work continues, the team unearths something
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Remarkable from under the sphinx.
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John: Hold, hold, hold,
hold, hold, hold, hold!
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No, no, no, no, no!
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Stand there, stand there.
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Hahahahaha!
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Do you realize what
he's just pulled out?
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A small sphinx!
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Oh wow!
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That is absolutely beautiful.
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A small criosphinx.
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There's the two
haunches, there's the
head, there's the head,
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There's the body,
here's the body.
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What a discovery, I mean
it's fantastic, it really is.
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Khaled: Wow.
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John: Isn't she beautiful?
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Narrator: Large sphinx statues are seen throughout egypt,
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But a miniature on this scale is one of a kind...
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John: Meet the child.
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Narrator: And must be recorded by the dig inspector, khaled shawky.
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Khaled is supervising the dig to report any finds back to the egyptian government.
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Khaled: This is amazing.
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This is very wonderful.
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John: Personally, I
think it's a model.
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Was it the son or the child,
possibly, or the apprentice,
copying the master,
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The master's making
the real thing.
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Khaled: This is a copy,
yes, I think so.
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John: And he's making a copy.
You've got the horn here.
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Khaled: I see that, yes.
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John: For that, but
this side is broken off.
Khaled: Yeah.
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John: He's gone in there
and he's gone whack!
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Khaled: I see that.
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John: And the whole, boom!
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And that's probably
why it was discarded.
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Narrator: John thinks the miniature was carved out for practice.
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John: Fantastic.
Khaled: Brilliant, well done.
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Narrator: It's an astonishing find.
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John: Find me
another one, guys.
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Narrator: At hatshepsut's temple, dr. Szafranski is
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Investigating the paintings she left on the walls.
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The imagery holds clues tohatshepsut's life, and revealsa family power struggle with
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Her nephew, who was also her stepson, thutmose the third.
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Dr szafranski: Here we see
hatshepsut and behind her
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We have a figure
of thutmose iii.
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We have two kings.
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Narrator: Images etched into these walls reveal the story of hatshepsut's
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Extraordinary rise to power.
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She was the first-born of a royal family,
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But tradition dictated that onlymen could become the pharaoh.
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So power was granted to her infant stepson.
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But after seven years of acting as his aid,
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Hatshepsut made an unprecedented move for power;
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She overtook her stepson,
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And proclaimed that she was now the king of egypt.
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Dr szafranski: We see on
the walls of this temple
there are two kings,
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But hatshepsut is
always number one.
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Narrator: Hatshepsut's power play was revolutionary.
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Now, dr. Szafranski is searching for new evidence
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To piece together her mysterious life.
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In the ruins next to hatshepsut's temple,
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The team has discovered a ring of ancient mud bricks.
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Dr szafranski: We're on
the top of something,
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Now we'll go deeper
and see what is inside.
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Narrator: They think artifacts could be buried here,
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But after a day of digging, progress comes to a halt.
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A one-ton block of sandstone is precariously balanced on top of the mud bricks.
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If the block falls, it could destroy any treasures buried beneath.
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Narrator: Dr. Szafranski's team has no heavy-lifting equipment on site,
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So they have to improvise.
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Workers: Hey-ah-ho!
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Narrator: If they can't move the block they won't be able
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To find out what's hidden beneath.
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Workers: Hey-ah-ho!
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(speaking native language).
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Narrator: 50 miles from hatshepsut's temple, in el kab,
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Yale university professor john darnell
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And his wife, egyptologist dr. Colleen darnell,
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Are beginning their season.
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They're using digital technology to record ancient rock inscriptions
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To figure out how hieroglyphic writing began.
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Darnell: I want to be
absolutely certain that we
have beak as it should be,
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And that we have this here
crest as it should be.
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Colleen: Hm-mm.
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Narrator: The pair has spent over 20 years exploring the deserts and temples of egypt,
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To interpret these ancient carvings.
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During dig season, they analyze their findings for publication
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Here at their home.
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Colleen: This is about
as spectacular of an
expedition house,
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A dig house, as you can
have anywhere in the world.
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The view of the nile, the
mud brick architecture,
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It's really a dream come true.
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These are about 90 years
old, linen, it's pretty
remarkable that it survived
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So it's fun to play
archaeology with
clothing as well.
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I have a 1920s
jodhpur and suit set,
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And a fun pair of
19-teens knickers.
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Narrator: Today, the couple is heading across the nile,
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To investigate a mysterious set of inscriptions.
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Darnell: There's just no
duplicate for looking at
the inscriptions themselves
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On the actual monuments
within these great
architectural settings.
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Narrator: Their destination is karnak temple.
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Its beautiful chapels and decorated courtyards cover a massive site.
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Here many great pharaohs, including hatshepsut, left their mark.
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But there's a mystery: Despite being female,
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Hatshepsut is often depicted as a man.
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Colleen: So here we see
hatshepsut and thutmose iii
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And they're wearing identical
crowns, broad collars,
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Starched kilts, so if you were
to approach this wall without
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Being able to read the
hieroglyphs you wouldn't
be able to tell who is who.
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Narrator: Throughout the site, hatshepsut continually
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Represents herself with male features.
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Colleen: She's wearing
a male kilt, and even
the pharaonic beard.
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Narrator: But hidden in the hieroglyphic text,
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Colleen finds evidence of her real gender.
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Colleen: Here we have
the female indication
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Of her gender within the text.
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'for my beloved
daughter', not son.
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Darnell: They know that this
is a woman in the role for
which most of the iconography
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And most of the
terms are masculine.
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So the egyptians
are aware of this and,
and they work with it.
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Narrator: Evidence on a temple wall reveals
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Hatshepsut wasn't hiding her femininity,
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She was proving she was a pharaoh.
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A fake beard was a way to show a connection with the god osiris.
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Even male pharaohs wore an artificial beard.
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But other items she wore were also reserved for men,
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Like the famous headdress, the nemes, and the kilt.
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But she transformed herself with these symbols of power
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To strengthen her image across the kingdom.
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Hatshepsut dressed not as a man, but as a pharaoh.
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Hatshepsut blurred her gender to be considered equal,
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But how equal was society for women in ancient egypt?
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Near hatshepsut's temple, in a tomb site called dra' abu el-naga...
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Suzanne: Take one side out
of the corridor with the
human remains on the edge.
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Narrator: Archaeologist suzanne onstine, and her team from the university of
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Memphis, are investigating the roles of women in ancient egyptian society.
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Suzanne: One of the
things that I really
focused on in my career
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Was what were women doing,
what were women's lives like.
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Every time I come to work here
I feel really excited because
there's no better feeling or
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Job satisfaction really.
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Narrator: It's suzanne's tenthseason excavating this tomb,but it's still packed with the
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Body parts of men, women, and mummified children.
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Torn apart by ancient looters,the team must piece thehuman remains back together.
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Suzanne: This is
skull fragments.
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Not everybody feels comfortable
working with the dead,
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But this is my job in
terms of bringing light to
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Ancient egypt and bringing
light to individuals.
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Woman: No that one's spines.
It's a pelvis.
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Suzanne: Right now we're
organizing the human remains,
we have hundreds, thousands
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And thousands of bones,
and so keeping track of
them is a bit complicated.
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I think, jesus,
penises or packets?
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Jesus: This is...
Suzanne: Probably penis.
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Jesus: Hmm.
Suzanne: Yeah?
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Jesus: This is probably penis,
this is probably packet.
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Suzanne: Packet, okay.
Too big to be penis.
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Jesus: Yeah.
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Suzanne: There's a lot of
shrinkage in the afterlife.
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We found several of these
mummified pieces, some of
them are packets of the,
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The organs that were
placed back inside,
occasionally one is a
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Penis that has been
detached from a body.
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Even king tut lost his
penis, it actually had just
sort of fallen down into the
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Sarcophagus nearby,
but somebody noticed
it was gone one day
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And there was a big situation
looking for king tut's penis.
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Narrator: Handling these intimate body parts is not for the fainthearted,
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But combing through the pieces, suzanne makes a dramatic discovery.
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Suzanne: She was probably
about 20 years old and
I'm inclined to think
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Nearly 100% that she died
as a result of childbirth.
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Narrator: At the necropolis in aswan,
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Martina is unearthing the remains of a buried child outside the tomb entrance.
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Martina: You can see
quite well he's very
tiny and very fragile.
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If I compare it with my
four years old niece, so
she's like that, that big.
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It's emotional because you
know it's, it's a child.
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Narrator: Child mortality was high in ancient egypt,
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But it's rare to find them buried and preserved at this necropolis.
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Martina: Whenever you find
some it's, it's something.
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Narrator: The team must move the bones of the child to get access to the tomb.
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But as they clear the area, they find something else
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Staring up from beneath the sand.
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Martina: Aah!
Oh my god.
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Narrator: Martina's team has just uncovered an ancient face mask made of cartonnage.
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Narrator: The mask covers the head of an adult mummy buried outside the tomb,
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But the team must strengthen it with resin before they can attempt to move it.
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This precious cartonnage mask was meant to help ensure a successful afterlife.
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Narrator: The cartonnage should help the team reveal who these bodies are,
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And when they date from.
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But strong winds are on the way, and the team must work fast.
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Narrator: 120 miles north...
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Suzanne: And just
hold it for a minute.
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Narrator: American archaeologist suzanne onstine is piecing together the
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Remains of women and children.
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Suzanne: This child right
here is really very touching.
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His face is still preserved.
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Narrator: She's searching for clues to their roles in society,
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Around the time of hatshepsut.
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She's found dramatic evidence of one individual's life, and death.
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Suzanne: The vagina
is the hole here,
still very distended,
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So we know that within
24 hours of giving birth
and passing a child
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That she died, because
otherwise the vagina
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Would've shrank
back to its original
anatomical position.
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So to find real evidence for
something that is sort of
commonly spoken about,
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That childbirth is a
really dangerous time
for women in antiquity,
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Really kind of unique in
a very dramatic fashion.
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Narrator: The mortal dangers of childbirth are clear,
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But suzanne believes women still held positions of power.
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Suzanne: Just looking at
the, the paintings we
have evidence for them
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Participating in all
levels of society.
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The scenes throughout
really emphasize their
sort of equal stature.
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Narrator: But the female pharaoh hatshepsut wanted to be more than just equal.
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In the ancient quarry at silsila, while john continues to dig out the sphinx,
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Maria is investigating the sitefor evidence of hatshepsut'smass building campaign.
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Inside a temple at the quarry,the carved relief scenes onthe walls have been changed.
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Maria: The reliefs that we
see on the walls now are
not the original scenes.
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If we start to look closer,
in fact what we can see here
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Are the tell-tale
signs underneath
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Of an original scene
that is no longer here.
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We can see a ship
transporting an obelisk.
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Narrator: The ghost images hidden in the wall reveal how hatshepsut
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May have been shipping obelisks from silsila.
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Hatshepsut was famous for her supersized
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320 ton obelisk cut from granite further south,
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But lifting it upright would stretch the limits of ancient engineering.
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Builders dragged the obelisk up a ramp, and then carefully dug away the earth beneath,
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Until the base hit the foundations in the rock.
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Finally, an army of builders used ropes to pull this monumental obelisk upright.
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Maria: It's putting it all
together, I, it's, it's,
making a full circle.
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We have the beautiful golden
sandstone, we've got the,
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The workers actually
during the time of
hatshepsut.
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I personally love working with
queens and female pharaohs
so for me it's wonderful.
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Narrator: Hatshepsut may have been shipping obelisks from silsila,
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But what was driving her tobuild these colossal monuments?
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At the karnak temple, john and colleen darnell think the answer
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Lies on hatshepsut's giant obelisk itself.
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Colleen: It's majesty
of this noble god...
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Darnell: Who has made
for her father...
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Colleen: She addresses future
generations and literally
tells us that people
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Who shall come generation
after generation will
know why she did this.
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She's doing this
for deep purposes of
religious devotion.
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But on the flipside when you
look up at the obelisk some
of the largest hieroglyphs are
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The name of hatshepsut
herself, so this is a giant
statement of propaganda,
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I mean there's, there's
no missing the fact that
this is a projection
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On a monumental scale
of pharaonic power.
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Narrator: Hatshepsut built these monuments to immortalize her name, not as a woman,
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But as one of the greatest pharaohs of egypt.
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Beside hatshepsut's temple, dr. Szafranski and the team need to move a
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One-ton sandstone block so they can excavate underneath.
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Workers: Hey-ah-ho!
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Natalie: Mabruk!
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Mabruk, I think
we're almost there.
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Workers: Hey-ah-ho!
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Narrator: With the block finally moved,
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They can begin to dig through the sand layers.
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Narrator: Underneath the temple ruins, the team has unearthed
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Ancient fragments of pottery.
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Mariusz: I think we have
the first complete pot.
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Natalie: Look at that.
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Mariusz: Yeah, the whole pot.
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Natalie: Wonderful huh?
Isn't that nice?
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Mariusz: We are very excited
and happy because nobody maybe
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Except ancient egyptian
were seeing this before.
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Narrator: These small clues could help dr. Szafranski unravel the mysterious events
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After hatshepsut's death.
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When she died around the age of 50, her stepson, king thutmose the third,
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Finally regained his power.
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And higher up the cliff, dr. Szafranski sees evidence of his temple.
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Dr szafranski: It was not
possible to build a bigger
temple than the temple of
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Hatshepsut, but it was higher.
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Narrator: Hatshepsut's immense temple took up the prime spot in the mountain
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Of the valley of the kings.
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So thutmose the third built his temple right next to it, but in an elevated position.
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Ancient builders constructed huge columns on top of a raised platform.
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Dr. Szafranski's team has figured out what this temple would've looked like and
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Discovered its upper terrace was 11 feet higher than hatshepsut's,
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A political powerplay by thutmose to finally overshadow his stepmother.
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Dr szafranski: It
was better visible, point
number one in the valley.
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He wanted this effect.
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Narrator: Thutmose had tried to upstage hatshepsut, but in a twist of fate,
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Ancient earthquakes and landslides have left his temple badly damaged.
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It may never look as it once did, but dr. Szafranski and his team
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Are working to restore what remains.
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Dr szafranski: Today we have
restored temple of hatshepsut
but after let's say five, ten
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Years we'll have
restored temple of
thutmose iii as well.
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It's only a matter of time.
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Narrator: In aswan, martina and the team
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Are finishing their excavations outside the tomb.
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Martina: Tired?
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(speaking native language).
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Worker: No, no, no.
No, no, not tired.
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Narrator: They've managed to move the bones and delicate cartonnage
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Into the onsite lab.
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From studying the decorative style, martina believes these burials dated to
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A few hundred years before the time of hatshepsut,
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00:36:21,713 --> 00:36:24,915
In a period called the middle kingdom.
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Martina: We know that it's
a middle kingdom date,
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The cartonnage was
really well done,
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00:36:29,805 --> 00:36:32,272
It was high quality work,
and we know that they were
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00:36:32,374 --> 00:36:35,675
Let's say higher
status persons.
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Narrator: Martina thinks the child and adult burials are a family connection
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00:36:40,849 --> 00:36:45,101
To whoever owned the tomb, but her team must continue
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To unearth the secrets of who or what is hidden inside.
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00:36:50,943 --> 00:36:54,077
Martina: It's going to
be amazing to see finally
how it looks like.
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Narrator: After a grueling few days, the team heads back to the dig house.
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Narrator: In the quarry at silsila...
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John: Ahmed!
Ahmed: Yes?
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Narrator: John ward is still excavating what could be the
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Remains of one of hatshepsut's sphinxes.
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00:37:36,204 --> 00:37:39,806
John: What I've got is
basically a dressed
piece of sandstone,
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00:37:39,908 --> 00:37:43,043
And I can feel a nice
right angle corner here.
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00:37:43,679 --> 00:37:47,647
What I'm hoping actually that
is, is the top part of the
head here, which is missing.
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00:37:48,517 --> 00:37:51,301
One, two, three.
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00:37:53,538 --> 00:37:55,171
Hold, hold, hold, hold.
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Workers: Hold, hold.
Hold! Up!
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00:37:58,377 --> 00:37:59,409
John: And turn him over.
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Turn him over.
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00:38:00,746 --> 00:38:03,013
Shuay, shuay, shuay.
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00:38:03,382 --> 00:38:05,865
The head of the sphinx.
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00:38:05,934 --> 00:38:09,035
So now we have
a complete sphinx as
far as I'm concerned.
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00:38:10,872 --> 00:38:16,676
Both maria and I do not
consider this a job, this is
life, silsila is our life,
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00:38:17,112 --> 00:38:22,148
These guys are our family,
and it's mankind's history.
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00:38:23,969 --> 00:38:26,369
All started here.
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Narrator: After a long, hot dig, john can finally show maria the enormity
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Of what they've unearthed.
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Maria: Oh wow.
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00:38:41,803 --> 00:38:45,438
Narrator: The abandoned sphinx statue is nearly ten feet high.
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00:38:48,510 --> 00:38:52,212
Maria: Wow!
This is just silly.
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00:38:52,314 --> 00:38:55,081
Why on earth is it still here?
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00:38:55,183 --> 00:38:57,867
Narrator: It's the largest they've seen at the quarry.
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Maria: As far as I know there's
no records whatsoever of
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Any unfinished sphinx
that is intact like this.
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Narrator: It's in such good condition, it's a mystery
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00:39:11,183 --> 00:39:14,167
Why this giant statue was abandoned.
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00:39:14,269 --> 00:39:18,004
It's possible a small fracture in the stone could have stopped the work.
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00:39:18,740 --> 00:39:23,543
But john and maria still want to find out where this sphinx was destined to go.
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00:39:24,913 --> 00:39:28,314
John: So we need to now look
at all the sphinxes, the
sphinx avenue of hatshepsut,
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00:39:28,417 --> 00:39:33,069
Karnak's, find out where
we have one of this size.
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00:39:33,638 --> 00:39:36,873
You're looking at over five
ton there, if not more.
507
00:39:38,009 --> 00:39:39,142
It really is.
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00:39:39,244 --> 00:39:41,244
Maria: Wow.
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00:39:48,003 --> 00:39:53,840
Narrator: At the magnificent karnak temple, hatshepsut began construction of the
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Avenue of the sphinxes.
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00:39:57,612 --> 00:40:01,948
Some statues have been moved, damaged, or have even disappeared,
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But hundreds still remain across the temple site.
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John: How do you
want to tackle this?
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Narrator: John and maria ward have come to karnak to try and find a match
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For the sphinx they've discovered back at the quarry.
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John: Our tail goes
further along the back
paw, then sweeps round.
517
00:40:24,272 --> 00:40:27,607
These don't look big
enough at the front.
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00:40:27,709 --> 00:40:31,945
Narrator: As well as matching the style, the couple is looking for black specks,
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00:40:32,047 --> 00:40:35,865
Called "inclusions," within the sandstone itself.
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00:40:36,701 --> 00:40:41,504
Maria: If we can find those
black inclusions, the little
black dots, then we know that
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It's from, most probably
from the same quarry.
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John: From the
same quarry, hmm.
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Maria: And from
the same period.
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John: I'm not seeing any.
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00:40:53,401 --> 00:40:56,769
Maria: These so far do
not show any such marks.
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00:40:56,872 --> 00:41:00,807
No, I think we need to
explore a little bit further.
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00:41:01,877 --> 00:41:06,412
Narrator: There's no sign of a matching sphinx on the avenue outside the temple walls,
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00:41:09,117 --> 00:41:13,002
But hidden inside the temple they find another style.
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00:41:14,206 --> 00:41:17,207
John: They, they are
different, maria,
they are different.
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00:41:18,043 --> 00:41:19,676
That haunch...
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Maria: Yeah.
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00:41:21,279 --> 00:41:22,679
John: Look at the belly cut.
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00:41:22,781 --> 00:41:24,514
Maria: I would agree.
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00:41:24,616 --> 00:41:26,299
John: And look, look at
the front, see the, the
girth of the neck...
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00:41:26,401 --> 00:41:27,934
Maria: I would agree.
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00:41:28,036 --> 00:41:29,736
John: Coming down and
that would, the paws...
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00:41:29,838 --> 00:41:31,604
Maria: And, and you've
got the black inclusions.
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00:41:31,706 --> 00:41:35,275
John: Black inclusions.
Wow! There we have it!
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00:41:36,745 --> 00:41:41,347
Narrator: Although damaged, the couple is certain these sphinxes came from silsila.
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00:41:42,184 --> 00:41:44,400
John: At silsila they haven't
been finished, they're,
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They're still in
their raw state.
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00:41:46,538 --> 00:41:49,405
They would've been
transported to here.
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00:41:49,941 --> 00:41:53,142
Narrator: The evidence suggests john and maria's sphinx would've made a
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00:41:53,245 --> 00:41:57,180
Remarkable journey, carved out at the quarry...
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00:41:57,282 --> 00:42:02,852
Shipped 100 miles down the nile and placed at karnak temple.
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00:42:03,338 --> 00:42:06,005
John: I'm feeling very proud,
I feel like a proud father.
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00:42:06,107 --> 00:42:09,175
These are our children,
this is from silsila.
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00:42:09,277 --> 00:42:14,881
Everything, bit by bit
by bit, has culminated
in this one moment.
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00:42:15,350 --> 00:42:18,535
Bang. The sphinx.
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00:42:28,046 --> 00:42:30,813
Narrator: By hatshepsut's temple, dr. Szafranski and
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The team continue their excavation.
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00:42:34,903 --> 00:42:37,637
Natalie: Look at
that treasure, it's
filled with content.
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00:42:37,739 --> 00:42:40,039
Dr szafranski: And the pot
looks like new kingdom.
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00:42:40,141 --> 00:42:43,977
Narrator: They have unearthed ancient pottery, and food buried in the ground.
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00:42:44,913 --> 00:42:49,699
These were gifts to the gods, offerings made when the temple was first built.
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00:42:50,135 --> 00:42:53,403
Mariusz: It's a very important
piece in this puzzle.
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00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:59,242
Narrator: Bit by bit, each of these small finds is helping
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00:42:59,344 --> 00:43:03,112
To unearth the secrets of this magnificent site.
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00:43:08,503 --> 00:43:13,773
Dr. Szafranski has dedicated his life to revealing the legacy of hatshepsut,
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00:43:14,309 --> 00:43:16,676
The incredible pharaoh queen.
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00:43:59,304 --> 00:44:04,507
Narrator: Hatshepsut was a leader, a politician, and a revolutionary
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00:44:04,609 --> 00:44:07,977
The likes of which the world had never seen.
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00:44:08,713 --> 00:44:13,066
Against all odds, hatshepsut rose to become a pharaoh,
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00:44:13,301 --> 00:44:15,802
And through her magnificent temple,
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00:44:15,904 --> 00:44:18,971
She is remembered once again.
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