Series

Egypt's Sun King: The Mystery Tombs

2018 · 1 season · Documentary

In 2011 a team from the University of Basel made two astonishing discoveries in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. By chance they came across a new tomb that was the first to contain a body since the discovery of Tutankhamun. Then they discovered that the tomb beside it, which had never been excavated before, held the bodies of around 50 people. But who were all the people in these two linked tombs? This film follows the archaeological detective story to uncover the answer. It pursues the trail that leads to one of Egypt's greatest pharaohs, Amenhotep III - and to the women he was close to. And the film also reveals the astonishing project behind the re-emergence nearby of the largest temple ever built in ancient Egypt - the lost mortuary temple of the same pharaoh, Amenhotep III.

Dallas Campbell

Narrator - (Voice)

• Richard ReiszDirector
• Richard ReiszWriter

First aired

November 24, 2018

Last aired

November 24, 2018

Status

Returning Series

Original language

English

Episodes

2

Genres

Documentary

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