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NARRATOR: Egypt, the richest source of
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archaeological treasures on the planet.
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WOMAN: Oh, that's a fabulous one.
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NARRATOR: Beneath this desert landscape lie the secrets of this ancient civilization.
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JOHN: Wow, can you see why the Pharaoh's chose this place?
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NARRATOR: Now for a full season of excavations, our cameras have been given
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unprecedented access to follow teams on the frontline of archaeology.
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MAN: I'm driving so fast because I'm so excited!
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WOMAN: It's an entrance, we can see an entrance!
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NARRATOR: Revealing buried secrets.
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MAN: I have just been told that they have found something.
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Oh my gosh!
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JOHN: A sphinx!
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NARRATOR: And making discoveries that could rewrite ancient history.
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This time, new secrets of the boy king, Tutankhamun.
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Alia uses pioneering technology to reveal startling new evidence about his tomb,
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and why it remained hidden for 3,000 years.
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ALIAA: A lot of robberies were going on, how was it not found?
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NARRATOR: Eissa's team discovers a long-lost cache of King Tutankhamun's treasures.
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NARRATOR: And Alejandro discovers extraordinary burial treasures in a
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4,000 year-old tomb.
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ALEJANDRO: Congratulations!
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NARRATOR: The Valley of the Kings, 3,500 years ago,
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the Great Pharaohs stopped building pyramids as their tombs.
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They chose these secluded cliffs to become their cemetery.
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Today, archaeologists come from all over the world to unlock the mysteries still
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hidden in this City of the Dead.
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It's the first day in the Valley for Cairo born Egyptologist
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Aliaa Ismail and her team.
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ALIAA: There's a real buzz in this place.
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People are coming from all over the world, coming to the Valley, it's amazing.
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I'm so proud to have such ancestry.
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It's one of the most famous necropolises in the world and I think what
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is special is that it comes out of nowhere.
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NARRATOR: Over 300 miles south of Cairo, in the heart of Egypt,
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lie the limestone cliffs of the Valley of the Kings.
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After 200 years of excavation,
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archaeologists have located sixty-five tombs hidden among the rocks.
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But only one has ever been found with its treasure still inside,
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it belonged to the Pharaoh, Tutankhamun.
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ALIAA: This here is number 62, Tutankhamun.
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One of those great finds of the century.
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NARRATOR: British explorer Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamun's
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tomb in 1922.
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One of his teams spotted steps leading down through the sand.
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They led to the tomb entrance, buried beneath meters of rubble and debris.
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What Carter found inside inspired archaeologists for generations to come.
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Deep inside the mountains,
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amid a maze of tunnels that bore deep through the rock,
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Carter reached the tomb of Tutankhamun hidden right in the center of the Valley.
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Inside, he found treasures unlike anything ever seen before.
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Over 5,000 priceless artifacts including golden statues.
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In the burial chamber the Pharaoh's mummy, wearing a golden death mask,
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was placed inside a coffin made of more than 200 pounds of solid gold.
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This intact tomb made Tutankhamun the most famous of the Pharaohs.
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Now Aliaa is investigating this golden Pharaoh's life.
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ALIAA: Wow.
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NARRATOR: And why his tomb remained hidden for so long.
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Aliaa's team has been scanning and documenting the tomb for the last ten years,
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and they've made a remarkable discovery.
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ALIAA: The idea here is to understand what's going on when you look at
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the data void of color.
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NARRATOR: The scans strip away the paint on the walls to reveal unusual markings.
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ALIAA: This was the main scene, and here is the 3D of the North Wall.
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So, as you can see here, the silhouette of an image and this would have
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been done while they were painting.
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NARRATOR: The images show the indented outline of the face hidden below.
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It's caused by the tip of the paintbrush if you start painting when
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the plaster is still wet.
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ALIAA: This is why the brushes would have made a very light impression and
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this allows us to understand it was rushed.
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NARRATOR: But why would the tomb builders rush such an important job?
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The pictures on the wall reveal another set of clues.
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Despite becoming the most famous Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt,
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Tutankhamun did not have a lengthy reign.
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He was only a nine-year-old boy when he became King,
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and relied on trusted advisors to help rule his vast empire.
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As Tutankhamun grew older,
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he was known to portray himself as a warrior king,
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riding into battle on a chariot.
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But the boy King suffered from multiple illnesses, including Malaria.
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He was only nineteen-years-old when he unexpectantly died.
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NARRATOR: Aliaa thinks the marks her scans reveal in the plaster are evidence
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of a hurried burial due to Tutankhamun's sudden death.
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ALIAA: The decorated part of the tomb is very small, it's only the burial chamber.
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The rest of the tomb is not decorated.
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If they had more time, all of this was going to be decorated.
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NARRATOR: While the tomb's construction may have been rushed, its treasures were
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everything a Pharaoh could desire to take him into the afterlife.
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So why did this tomb lay hidden below a layer of rock for thousands of years when
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all the other tombs in the Valley were looted?
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To solve this mystery, Aliaa will turn to new technology as she moves her
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investigation out into the Valley.
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300 miles north, in Giza,
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in the shadow of the pyramids, the biggest treasure haul in history
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is getting a new home, a one-billion-dollar museum and research center.
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When completed, the Grand Egyptian Museum will reunite all of Tutankhamun's treasures
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in one place, for the first time in 100 years.
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TAREK: Having all of the pieces from the tomb of Tutankhamun together
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in one place, this will be a fantastic chance to find new facts,
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new hidden things about Tutankhamun.
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NARRATOR: After Carter removed the treasures from Tut's tomb,
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they ended up in museums around Egypt.
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Now, for the first time, scientists and Egyptologists will use modern
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technology to analyze each object.
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TAREK: Some details reappear and give us new information about these antiquities.
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NARRATOR: But some of Tut's greatest treasures are yet to arrive.
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300 miles south in the Luxor Museum, Eissa Zidan is preparing 122 of these
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priceless artifacts for the move to Giza.
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NARRATOR: Eissa's packing list includes one of Tut's famous chariots,
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intricate model boats and
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a unique head of the cow Goddess, Hathor, elaborately gilded with gold.
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NARRATOR: After just four hours, Eissa's packing suddenly comes to a halt.
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One of his teams has discovered something completely unexpected
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in the storeroom.
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It's an antique box that Howard Carter used to pack and transport Tutankhamun's
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treasures out of the tomb.
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NARRATOR: The box has been missing, presumed lost, for decades,
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and no one knows what treasures it may hold.
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120 miles south of the Valley of the Kings, near Aswan,
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a Spanish Research Team from Jaen University
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is hoping to follow in Carter's footsteps and make new
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discoveries that could rewrite history.
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Professor Alejandro Jimenez-Serrano heads the largest foreign team
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working in Egypt.
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Today is the first day of the dig season.
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ALEJANDRO: Sorry for the mess.
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We are sharing the room, three researchers of the team.
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This is my, my bed, supposedly the best one.
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Sorry.
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It's amazing to get up and the first thing that you see apart from the ugly face
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of your roommates is the Qubbet el-Hawa, the hill.
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NARRATOR: Qubbet el-Hawa is one of the largest ancient burial sites in Egypt.
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So far, 100 tombs have been discovered here.
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They belong to the nobles who governed Egypt hundreds of years before
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the Pharaoh's buried in the Valley of the Kings.
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Alejandro's mission is to hunt for more unopened tombs and reveal more
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about these early Egyptians.
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ALEJANDRO: It's difficult to explain how I feel.
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Not only nervous, it's exciting, it's a mix of feelings.
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It's an honor to...
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to come every year.
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Now here comes the most difficult part of the day,
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to climb the hill.
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NARRATOR: This is the team's tenth year digging here.
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WOMAN: It's so nice to be here again.
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NARRATOR: There's a reason why everyone is excited to be back.
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Last year, Alejandro found the entranced to a sealed tomb,
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but his permit expired before he could explore inside.
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ALEJANDRO: Today is 40 degrees, and working underneath the sun,
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today's gonna be tough.
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NARRATOR: To protect against modern day tomb-robbers,
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they put a steel security door to block the entrance
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of the vertical shaft that leads to the sealed burial chamber.
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ALEJANDRO: Well it has been one-year waiting, one-year imagining the possibilities.
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I'm very excited.
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NARRATOR: In Luxor, Eissa's team packs Tutankhamun's treasures for the move
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to the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza.
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But in the storeroom,
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Eissa is ready to open Carter's long-lost box to discover
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what's inside.
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NARRATOR: The team gathers around to see if the box really does contain priceless
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treasures from Tutankhamun's tomb.
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MOHAMMAD: Ah.
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MAN: Fantastic. MOHAMMAD: It's amazing.
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NARRATOR: These delicate wooden pieces are ancient boat parts.
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NARRATOR: Storeroom records suggest they could be missing from a model boat
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Howard Carter found in Tutankhamun's tomb.
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NARRATOR: According to ancient Egyptian belief,
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boats played a key role after death.
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So, placing model boats into tombs was a vital part of any burial.
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The vessels also came complete with crew because it was believed the replicas
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would come to life and help with fishing and transport in the underworld.
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The Pharaohs used a special vessel to sail across the sky for eternity.
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Ordinary people also thought they could reach the afterlife by boat,
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rowing on the Nile and into the next world.
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MOHAMMAD: You can see here the date of the newspaper,
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it's Sunday 5th of November, 1933.
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NARRATOR: To discover where these pieces came from,
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Mohammad inspects Carter's original inventory.
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NARRATOR: Records show that the box was sent to Luxor in 1973
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but had gone missing, presumed lost or stolen.
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NARRATOR: Eissa thinks the rest of the boat is safe in the new Cairo lab,
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so they may finally be able to reunite it.
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To transport the treasures to Giza,
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Eissa's team must traverse 400 miles of barren desert roads
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and crowded city streets before they reach the safety of the new museum.
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It will take two trucks to transport all 122 of the artifacts to Giza.
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EISSA: This a very, very big moment for the collection,
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this is the final trip of Tutankhamun.
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NARRATOR: But with such priceless relics on board,
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there's concern the convoy could be a target for a hijacking.
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EISSA: We have a good police and good army.
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They will follow us during moving from Luxor until arrive to Cairo.
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NARRATOR: With security in place, it's time to roll.
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They now face a grueling twelve-hour journey through the desert to
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reach Giza before nightfall.
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Ever since Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun's priceless golden treasures,
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archaeologists have continued to try and figure out where and how the
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ancient Egyptians found vast quantities of gold.
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Fifty-miles south of the Valley of the Kings,
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on the edge of the Eastern Desert,
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French gold expert Thomas Faucher and archaeologist John Ward are
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on the hunt for the origins of Tutankhamun's gold.
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THOMAS: So, I'm going to...
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JOHN: What are you waiting for, a traffic signal?
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NARRATOR: The Eastern Desert covers 85,000 square-miles of remote barren wilderness.
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Some of the rock here contains tiny grains of gold locked inside.
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Thomas has studied ancient gold mining techniques for seven years.
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Now he wants to see if he can find any evidence of it.
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But this part of the desert is a risky place to be.
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THOMAS: The thing is we need to leave before dark because it's not safe if we are
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staying there because we can lose our way, we can have an accident and
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it's also at the sunset that all the snakes are going out.
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JOHN: Snakes?
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THOMAS: Yeah, vipers.
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JOHN: No one told me about...
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THOMAS: There are horrid vipers, yeah.
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NARRATOR: The first stop, an ancient well.
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It could provide clues to the location of mining communities during
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the time of Tutankhamun.
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THOMAS: This is the well just right in front of us here.
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JOHN: It's dry.
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NARRATOR: The well might be dry today, but it was so important to
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the ancient Egyptians, they built a temple to honor it.
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JOHN: It's beautiful isn't it?
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They actually applied a plaster gyp ceiling and then applied the paint.
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Amazing.
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NARRATOR: The text engraved on these walls reveals clues about the
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gold miners and where they were heading.
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Ancient engineers built a network of wells and rest stops stretching all the way
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across the desert, each a day's walk from the last,
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enabling travelers and miners
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to safely cross and explore the barren desert.
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The temple carvings indicate these wells led toward the mines.
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Thomas hopes he will be able to find some evidence of the people
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behind Tutankhamun's goldmining operations.
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THOMAS: Now it's time to go deeper East...
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NARRATOR: Like an ancient treasure map, they must follow the trail of
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wells further into the desert.
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In Aswan, at the ancient burial site of Qubbet el-Hawa,
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Alejandro is about to open a 4,000-year-old tomb.
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They're on the hunt for whatever burial treasure may be inside.
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ALEJANDRO: I don't know who is more nervous, me or my team.
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I want to go now!
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NARRATOR: After a year of waiting, Alejandro can finally enter the tomb.
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ALEJANDRO: It's amazing.
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NARRATOR: It contains a 4,000-year-old coffin.
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Workers have inserted a box covered in acid-free paper inside the coffin to
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stop it from collapsing while they examine the tomb.
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ALEJANDRO: There, we have been very lucky.
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It's impossible to explain the feelings that I'm having.
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The burial consisted in two coffins, the outer coffin and the inner coffin.
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NARRATOR: Among the debris of the outer coffin,
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Alejandro spots something extraordinary.
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ALEJANDRO: It is full of wooden models, but unfortunately, the outer
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coffin fall over them.
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NARRATOR: The chamber is full of model boats,
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similar to the one in Tutankhamun's tomb.
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ALEJANDRO: To find this funerary boat in a tomb is rare today.
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NARRATOR: But there's not just one, there are four, complete with crew.
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ALEJANDRO: You want to laugh, you want to shout, you want to cry.
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NARRATOR: This is the first time in seventy-years a set of boats like
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this has been found.
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This discovery gives Alejandro an extremely rare opportunity to study
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such important burial goods.
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But first he has to extract them from the tomb safely.
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Alejandro calls in his team of conservation specialists,
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Sara and Theresa.
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NARRATOR: Termites have attacked the wooden boats.
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Sara sprays on a liquid adhesive to hold them together.
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ALEJANDRO: So, we will see if they are capable to make a miracle.
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NARRATOR: They prepare a foam-lined cradle to support the boat for the move
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to the team's restoration lab, but the wooden hull is stuck to the tomb floor.
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It'll require surgical precision using scalpels to free it.
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ALEJANDRO: From the tomb to the restoration lab we are talking
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about perhaps 40-meters.
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But today's very windy which is very, very aggressive.
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NARRATOR: The ancient boats are extremely fragile.
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ALEJANDRO: Get ready.
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NARRATOR: With a drop in the wind, the team sees the chance to remove the first boat.
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ALEJANDRO: Perfect. That was exciting.
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One of the best moments in my career.
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WOMAN: We have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8 person.
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ALEJANDRO: We take many weeks to clean it and fix the pieces that were
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broken some centuries ago.
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NARRATOR: While the team gets to work on the boat,
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Alejandro can finally open the coffin to see who and what is inside.
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In the middle of the desert,
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the convoy carrying Tutankhamun's priceless
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treasures is two hours into its journey when Eissa spots a problem.
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NARRATOR: A thermal blanket protecting Tut's golden chariot is coming loose.
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If it flies off, it could cause a crash.
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NARRATOR: The unscheduled stop in the desert makes this convoy,
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carrying the world's most priceless treasures, a potential target for hijackers.
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.
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NARRATOR: Eissa and his team are unable to secure the loose thermal covering
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protecting Tut's chariot.
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NARRATOR: Removing the cover,
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they risk the scorching desert heat potentially damaging
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the priceless treasure.
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EISSA: Everything is okay.
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NARRATOR: Now, Eissa needs to get the convoy moving.
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HASSAN: We hope to arrive to Cairo safely.
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NARRATOR: In the Valley, Egyptologist Aliaa Ismail is on a mission to
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discover how Tutankhamun's tomb and treasures remained hidden for 3,000 years.
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ALIAA: A lot of robberies were going on in ancient times and modern times.
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But it seems that this particular tomb was not found.
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How was it not found?
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NARRATOR: The ancient engineers of Tutankhamun's tomb had a plan.
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Inside the mountain, they went to great lengths to conceal the tomb.
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The Pharaoh's burial chamber is located 26 feet underground,
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and is defended from the inside out.
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Engineers constructed a wall to block off the burial chamber.
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They filled the corridor leading to the King with tons of rubble,
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before sealing a final doorway and covering Tutankhamun's tomb with
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a vast amount of boulders under earth standard tomb protection of the day.
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But when Carter discovered this tomb, it had more material on top than
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any other in the Valley.
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This may explain how it remained undiscovered for over 3,000 years.
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But how did this extra rock and debris get here?
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Aliaa joins German Geologist Martin Ziegler to investigate.
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MARTIN: If you want to understand the evolution of the Valley of the Kings, you
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need to also understand the evolution of the rock.
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NARRATOR: Martin thinks there could be clues in the rocks at the
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entrance to a nearby tomb.
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MARTIN: Just at the entrance of it, a slab is just hanging above,
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a rock basically could fall out of the cliff.
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NARRATOR: Egypt is hit with dozens of earthquakes each year.
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So, Martin's installed a seismometer to measure any vibrations that
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could trigger rock falls.
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MARTIN: With this one we calculate it to be...
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weigh about 600 to 700 kilometers from the Valley of the Kings.
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ALIAA: What if an earthquake would...
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were to happen like much closer to the Valley of the Kings, how would it affect it?
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MARTIN: A very big earthquake could destabilize some rock portions.
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So, when you look in the...
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in the history of recorded earthquakes, the historic timescales, let's say the
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thousands of years, we have some records of earthquakes of that type of magnitude.
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NARRATOR: So, could rock falls caused by earthquakes 3,000 years ago account
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for the extra tons of rock that covered the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb?
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MARTIN: From the geological past and the historic point of view, they could have rock
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falls or rock slides that are triggered by earthquakes covering tombs.
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NARRATOR: But there are no cliffs directly above Tutankhamun's tomb, so it
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wouldn't have been hit by a direct rockfall.
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How did so much extra material travel down the valley and completely cover
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the entrance to the tomb?
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To solve this mystery Aliaa and Martin must take to the air.
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Deep in the Eastern Desert, Thomas and John are looking for evidence of the miners who
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produced the gold for Tutankhamun's treasures.
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They're trying to find a route of ancient wells that the goldminers would
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have followed as they travelled to the mines.
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JOHN: It's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
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But I'm losing a few kidneys.
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.
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NARRATOR: Seventy miles from the last ancient well,
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Thomas and John head into the unknown.
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With their G-P-S broken down, they now risk getting completely lost.
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JOHN: This piece of technology is defunct!
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It is not working.
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Look here, it's literally on the right side.
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So, we are now at the back end.
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So, we need to turn around.
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NARRATOR: But after two days of searching, John thinks they may have
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finally found something.
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JOHN: What's that over there?
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At the base of that mountain there?
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So, we found it!
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THOMAS: Okay, so it looks that we've found a very interesting place here.
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It's a settlement.
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NARRATOR: It may look like scattered stones and debris, but to Thomas' expert eye,
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he can see the outline of ancient buildings.
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THOMAS: We have the huts where the people were living and where they were working.
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Yeah, we definitely have here the evidence...
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JOHN: Oh Thomas... THOMAS: Here...
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I mean people have been working here and we see, yeah,
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there are even more over there.
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NARRATOR: As they get closer,
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John spots the tools the ancient miners would have used to extract
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gold from the rocks.
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JOHN: Oh.
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THOMAS: Yeah, that's the grinding stone.
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JOHN: That's a pounder.
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THOMAS: Yeah, that's a pounder. Yeah, exactly.
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JOHN: That's what they would break...
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THOMAS: Yeah they would... JOHN: The quartz with. THOMAS: Yeah.
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NARRATOR: It's the remains of an ancient goldmining camp.
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JOHN: I mean how many people are we talking, 20, 30?
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THOMAS: Yeah maybe there were like families living here.
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NARRATOR: Thomas has studied ancient mining techniques for years.
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But seeing this evidence first-hand brings home the hardships the miners endured.
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THOMAS: You start from a piece of quartz like this and you want to make
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product out of it.
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So, you need to crush it.
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And you have to imagine how much pain it takes just
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to break a single piece of quartz,
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doing that like all day long, in the sun, pounding and pounding and
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grinding and grinding and doing that for years.
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NARRATOR: Evidence here paints a picture of the life of desert miners.
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They cut shafts stretching up to thirty-two feet deep into the stone in search of
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precious seams of quartz rock that contained gold.
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Crushing the quartz was a massive undertaking.
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Mining experts have calculated that a team of twenty people would take
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a week to process enough stone to make just a spoonful of gold.
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THOMAS: That's heavy.
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JOHN: Seriously.
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NARRATOR: Sadly, there is very little evidence left of these ancient mines, but these
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settlements provide new insight into the communities that lived such hard lives
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processing the gold.
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THOMAS: We have all the material they were using for sure, that they were
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working here to extract and process the gold to send it to the Valley of the Kings.
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JOHN: We've found it. THOMAS: We've found it.
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NARRATOR: In Aswan, Alejandro's team prepares to remove the coffin from the
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tomb they've opened.
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Inscriptions reveal it belongs to a man called Shemai.
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ALEJANDRO: They have just struck the lid of the coffin of Shemai.
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Rebecca, you are the first person that is looking at Shemai's face in 4000 years.
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Congratulations!
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NARRATOR: The inner coffin is intact, but extremely fragile.
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Alejandro's team has reinforced it to try and protect the mummy inside.
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ALEJANDRO: It's difficult to express the feelings that I have now.
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It's a special moment because I'm studying this family, and it's almost my second family.
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NARRATOR: In the restoration lab, the intricate beauty
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of the model boats is starting to appear.
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Termites have eaten much of the wood, but their excrement
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has actually helped hold parts of the boats together for thousands of years.
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ALEJANDRO: We have some parts that are still in a very good state of conservation.
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This head of the man, it is covered with excrement of the termites,
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but the wood is still visible.
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NARRATOR: Alejandro has spotted a figure distinct from the other carvings.
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ALEJANDRO: We can see in the middle of the boat a yellow face which belongs to a mummy,
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which would represent Shemai.
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NARRATOR: This exceptional discovery will help archaeologists understand
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the evolution of burial practices in ancient Egypt.
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ALEJANDRO: I was dreaming always to discover something like this,
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and it's a dream that came true.
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NARRATOR: Alejandro's next task is to bring Shemai's mummy above ground
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for the first time in 4,000 years.
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NARRATOR: In the Valley of the Kings,
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Aliaa and Martin look for clues to explain why
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Tutankhamun's tomb remained hidden for so long.
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They've got special permission from the Government to use a drone to get a unique
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perspective on the position of Tutankhamun's tomb.
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MARTIN: There we go.
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MAN: If we look down we should be over the Tutankhamun entrance right now.
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MARTIN: Now we can see the cliffs in the back, and we can see the central position of
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the tomb.
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And above we can see debris.
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NARRATOR: Loose rock and debris cover the cliffs behind Tut's tomb.
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But the drone also reveals these flood channels, carved into the rock by heavy rains
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over thousands of years and they could be the vital missing clue.
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MARTIN: We think that if we have flash flooding, that material can flow down in
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these kinds of channels.
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NARRATOR: Throughout history the Valley has been hit by earthquakes,
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and occasional flash floods.
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The flood waters push rubble downhill toward the tombs.
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Tutankhamun's tomb lies in the spot where the channels of water converge,
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and dump tons of rock.
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This, combined with stone chippings from a tomb built above, buried the entrance
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deeper and kept it hidden for over 3,000 years.
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ALIAA: It's very exciting for me as an Egyptologist to see Tutankhamun's tomb
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from up here and see how it fits within the valley.
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It is the prime location, it is the one that was most protected.
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He got the most sheltered tomb of all.
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NARRATOR: Tutankhamun was a boy King who played a minor role in Egypt's history,
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but because his tomb remained hidden for thousands of years,
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his treasure was kept safe from robbers and
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made him the legend we know today.
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In Aswan, the team is bringing the mummy of ancient Egyptian Shemai
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to the surface for the first time in 4,000 years.
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This is the culmination of ten years of field work for Alejandro,
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and an incredible opportunity to learn more about Shemai.
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ALEJANDRO: Oh 125, it's quite short.
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My daughter is more of less like this and she's eight years old.
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I expected that at least he would be around 20-years-old or something.
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It has been a surprise.
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I never expected that he could be just a boy.
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On his coffin it was written that he was the person in charge of
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the administration of the store.
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Controlling the store, you control the people because you decide who is going
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to receive food or not.
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NARRATOR: This new evidence reveals Shemai held a powerful position in
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Egyptian Society at a very young age.
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He may not have been a Pharaoh, but like the boy King Tutankhamun,
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his status afforded him a tomb and burial goods to ensure a safe passage into the afterlife
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It's taken twelve hours, but finally Eissa and his convoy of
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Tutankhamun's treasures arrive in the city.
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It's very, very, very exciting.
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We wait for this moment.
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NARRATOR: Tarek Tawfik the Museum Director,
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is anxious to get everything safely inside.
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TAREK: The first cradles have to be taken out, in order for the Tutankhamun
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pieces to start emerging.
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EISSA: Now I can say I'm very, very happy.
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Mission is complete, yes.
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TAREK: It will be like unpacking Christmas presents.
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When we get out these pieces and find out more details about how they complement the
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whole story of King Tutankhamun.
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NARRATOR: Eissa's team can finally unpack the priceless treasures.
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Scientists and Egyptologists can now begin to study and
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analyze each item in their new high-tech lab.
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Top of the list are the newly discovered boat pieces.
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MOHAMMAD: We'll check now in our database which of them maybe related to any
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of the boats in the storeroom.
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NARRATOR: For almost 100 years, the boat that was buried alongside Tutankhamun
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to help him travel into the afterlife has been missing its mast.
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.
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HASSAN: Exactly!
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MOHAMMAD: It's very beautiful.
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It's amazing that after all these years, we still have new discoveries and new secrets
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for this golden King, Tutankhamun.
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NARRATOR: 100 years after its discovery,
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Tutankhamun's stunning treasure is still
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surprising the world.
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And the Valley of the Kings
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shows why it remains the greatest place on Earth to
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hunt for the secrets of Egypt's famous Pharaohs.
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