Name: Tutankhamun's Treasures (Full Episode) | Lost Treasures of Egypt
Uploaded: 2021-02-05T18:21:43.000Z
Duration: 44 min 25 s
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NARRATOR: Beneath this desert  landscape lie the secrets  of this ancient civilization.

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

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

unprecedented access  to follow teams on the  frontline of archaeology.

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

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

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

NARRATOR: And making  discoveries that could  rewrite ancient history.

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

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

and why it remained  hidden for 3,000 years.

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

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

NARRATOR: And Alejandro  discovers extraordinary  burial treasures in a

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

the Great Pharaohs  stopped building  pyramids as their tombs.

They chose these  secluded cliffs to  become their cemetery.

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

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

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

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

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

is special is that it comes out of nowhere.

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

lie the limestone cliffs  of the Valley of the Kings.

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

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

it belonged to the  Pharaoh, Tutankhamun.

ALIAA: This here is number 62, Tutankhamun.

NARRATOR: British  explorer Howard Carter  discovered Tutankhamun's

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

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

What Carter found inside  inspired archaeologists  for generations to come.

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

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

Inside, he found  treasures unlike anything  ever seen before.

Over 5,000 priceless artifacts  including golden statues.

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

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

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

Now Aliaa is investing  this golden Pharaoh's life.

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

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

and they've made a  remarkable discovery.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

this allows us to understand it was rushed.

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

The pictures on the wall  reveal another set of clues.

Despite becoming the  most famous Pharaoh  of Ancient Egypt,

Tutankhamun did  not have a lengthy reign.

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

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

he was known to portray  himself as a warrior king,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

all the other tombs in  the Valley were looted?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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