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Romany: WAS THE MOST FAMOUS MUMMY IN THE WORLD...

KING TUT.

...DESECRATED BY VENGEFUL TRAITORS?

THE PRIESTS WERE NOT PLEASED.

THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED.

OR COULD EXPERIMENTAL MUMMIFICATION TECHNIQUES

IN ANCIENT EGYPT HAVE ACHIEVED A TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGH...

WHOA!

...THAT HARNESSED ELECTRICITY...

SO YOU'RE SAYING THEY WERE ATTEMPTING TO PRESERVE

THE SPARK OF LIFE?

...AND ACHIEVED TRUE IMMORTALITY?

DEATH IS GOING TO BECOME A THING OF THE PAST.

♪♪

I'M ARCHAEOLOGIST AND MUMMY EXPERT RAMY ROMANY.

ACROSS THE GLOBE, EARTH IS GIVING UP HER DEAD.

OH, MY GOD. PEDRO, LOOK AT THIS.

THANKS TO CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY,

NEW MUMMIES ARE UNEARTHED EVERY DAY.

IT'S LIKE AN UNDERWATER CRIME SCENE.

THESE MUMMIES HOLD EXTRAORDINARY SECRETS...

OH, MY GOD. WHAT IS THIS?

PRICELESS.

...IF YOU KNOW HOW TO UNWRAP IT.

THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING.

THIS IS...

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WE ARE 1,500 FEET HIGH IN THE SKY

IN LUXOR, EGYPT.

YOU CAN SEE ALL OF LUXOR, ANCIENT THEBES, TOO,

UNDERNEATH OF US.

THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS IS RIGHT THERE.

♪♪

63 SPECTACULAR TOMBS HIDDEN IN THE CLIFFS.

THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS IS THE PERFECT HIDING PLACE

TO HIDE FROM NATURE AND ITS DISASTERS,

TO HIDE FROM LIGHTNING STRIKES AND SANDSTORMS,

TO KEEP THE MUMMIES SAFE FOR ETERNITY,

WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY INTENDED TO DO.

AND DOWN IN THAT VALLEY LIES KING TUT'S TOMB.

FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, IT WAS A COMPLETE SECRET...

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT.

♪♪

WHEN HOWARD CARTER DISCOVERED THE TOMB IN 1922,

IT MADE TUT THE MOST FAMOUS MUMMY IN THE WORLD.

♪♪

HIS BURIAL CHAMBER REVEALED SECRETS

THAT HAD BEEN HIDDEN FOR MORE THAN 3,000 YEARS.

♪♪

IN ADDITION TO THIS PHARAOH'S UNPRECEDENTED TREASURES,

THE TOMB CONTAINED A MUMMY UNLIKE ANY OTHER.

♪♪

TUT'S BODY INDICATED THAT THE MUMMIFICATION PROCESS

DIVERGED FROM ITS PREDECESSORS,

SUGGESTING EITHER CHANGES WERE INTENTIONALLY MADE,

OR SOMETHING WITH THE AGE-OLD PROCESS HAD GONE TERRIBLY WRONG.

♪♪

COULD THIS HAVE BEEN A PLOT

TO PREVENT HIM FROM ENTERING THE AFTERLIFE,

OR IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS

WERE ATTEMPTING A SCIENTIFIC PROCEDURE

MORE TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED THAN TODAY'S ARCHAEOLOGISTS

AND SCIENTISTS COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED?

♪♪

LOUISE!

I'M MEETING WITH DR. LOUISE BERTINI,

A PROFESSOR OF EGYPTOLOGY

WHO HAS BEEN INVESTIGATING THE ANOMALIES

ASSOCIATED WITH KING TUT'S MUMMY FOR MORE THAN A DECADE.

IN MANY WAYS, IT'S PROBABLY THE GREATEST

ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY OF ALL TIME.

IT'S SO IMPORTANT BECAUSE

IT'S THE ONLY INTACT BURIAL THAT WE HAVE.

ALL THESE TOMBS HERE IN VALLEY OF THE KINGS

HAVE BEEN, UNFORTUNATELY, THOROUGHLY LOOTED.

WHILE MANY OF THE TOMBS IN THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS WERE LOOTED,

KING TUT'S TOMB WAS LARGELY UNTOUCHED.

EGYPTOLOGISTS WERE ABLE TO RECOVER

OVER 5,000 RELICS AND BURIAL ITEMS,

AND THE STUDY OF THOSE HAS GIVEN US DEEPER INSIGHT

INTO THE PRACTICES, BELIEFS,

AND TECHNOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS.

HERE IT IS -- KV62,

THE TOMB OF KING TUT.

♪♪

YOU KNOW, LOUISE, THE FIRST TIME I WALKED DOWN THESE STEPS,

I WAS 4.

AWW, 4.BUT ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS

IS HAVING KING TUT, THE MAN HIMSELF,

STILL HERE IN THIS TOMB.

WHILE THE ARTIFACTS FOUND IN KING TUT'S TOMB

PROVIDED SO MANY ANSWERS,

THE MUMMY ITSELF RAISED EVEN MORE QUESTIONS.

HIS MUMMY IS -- IT'S QUITE DIFFERENT.

AND WHY IS THAT?

WELL, A RECENT RE-EXAMINATION OF HOWARD CARTER'S NOTES

REFERS TO SOOT THAT WAS FOUND.

HE TALKS ABOUT HOW THE LINEN WAS REDUCED TO SOOT.

NOVEMBER 11, 1925.

THAT'S THE DAY CARTER UNWRAPS THE MUMMY.

"HERE AND THERE WERE A NUMBER OF LIGHTLY WRAPPED PAD OF LINEN.

LITTLE ELSE COULD BE RECOGNIZED.

THE LINEN BEING REDUCED TO THE CONSISTENCY OF SOOT."

YEAH, AND, IN FACT, ON THE NEXT DAY...

NOVEMBER 12, 1925, IT SAYS,

"NEAR THE FLESH OF THE KING,

THE WRAPPINGS WERE NOTHING MORE THAN CHARRED POWDER."

♪♪

YEAH.

SO, DO YOU THINK THERE COULD HAVE BEEN SOME SORT OF A FIRE

INSIDE KING TUT'S SARCOPHAGUS AFTER IT WAS SEALED?

COULD THERE HAVE BEEN SOME SORT OF REACTION IN THE COFFIN

THAT CAUSED THAT? YES.

THEY PROBABLY DUMPED THE OILS ON TUT

SHORTLY BEFORE HE WAS WRAPPED.

MM.

THE RITUAL FOR PREPARING A PHARAOH FOR MUMMIFICATION

HAD VERY SPECIFIC STEPS.

HIGH PRIESTS WOULD HAVE RUBBED TUT IN OIL,

THEN WRAPPED HIM WITH CUSTOM-MADE STRIPS OF LINEN.

THE WRAPPINGS WERE HELD IN PLACE WITH A STICKY RESIN

MADE OF PLANT-GUM EXTRACT, LINSEED OIL, PLANT WAX,

AND NATURAL PETROLEUM COMBINED WITH FAT.

BUT WHY, IN TUT'S CASE,

DID THE RITUAL SEEM TO RESULT IN BURNING HIS BODY

AND ONLY THE LINENS CLOSEST TO IT?

RESIN TYPICALLY WAS USED JUST AS AN ADHESION

TO KEEP THE BANDAGES TOGETHER, AND IT ALSO DID HAVE VARIOUS

RITUAL AND PURIFICATION QUALITIES TO IT.

BUT IT'S SO MUCH RESIN THAT WAS POURED,

NOT ONLY WAS RESIN POURED ON THE MUMMY DIRECTLY,

BUT EVEN ONCE TUT'S BODY WAS PLACED IN THE FIRST COFFIN,

THE COFFIN ITSELF WAS THEN POURED

WITH ANOTHER LAYER OF RESIN,

SO MUCH THAT THE COFFIN ACTUALLY HAD RESIN

COMING UP TO THE TOP OF THE THIRD SARCOPHAGUS...

WHAT?...THAT IT WAS BURIED IN.

WHY, ALL OF A SUDDEN, JUST CHANGE?

WHY, ALL OF A SUDDEN, DECIDE TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT?

WERE THEY TRYING SOMETHING THAT --

COULD IT HAVE BEEN DELIBERATELY,

FOR A MORE SINISTER REASON?

YOU'RE SAYING THAT IT COULD BE SOME SORT OF A CONSPIRACY

TO MAKE SURE HE DOES NOT GET GRANTED IMMORTALITY.

THAT'S POSSIBLE.

WE DON'T REALLY KNOW.

♪♪

ANCIENT EGYPTIANS BELIEVED THAT THE DEAD BODY ITSELF

HAD TO BE PRESERVED

FOR THE PERSON TO GO TO THE AFTERLIFE,

SO TO DESECRATE TUT'S MUMMY ON PURPOSE

WOULD HAVE MEANT STOPPING HIM FROM ACHIEVING IMMORTALITY.

SPEAKING TO LOUISE CONFIRMS THAT SOME KIND OF FIRE

LIKELY CHARRED KING TUT WITHIN HIS SARCOPHAGUS.

BUT THE QUESTIONS REMAINS -- WHAT CAUSED THE BURNING,

AND WAS IT INTENTIONAL?

IN ALL CASES, I WOULD THINK THE EXPLANATION HERE

HAS TO BE SCIENTIFIC.

♪♪

I'M HEADING TO MEET DR. MOHAMED ABDEL-MOTALLEB IN CAIRO.

HE'S A PROFESSOR AT THE NILE UNIVERSITY

WHO HAS STUDIED THE CHEMISTRY KNOWN TO ANCIENT EGYPTIANS

AND HOPEFULLY HAS SOME INSIGHT INTO THIS MYSTERY.

BY THE TIME OF THE 18th DYNASTY IN EGYPT, KING TUT'S TIME,

ANCIENT EGYPTIANS WERE MASTERS OF MUMMIFICATION.

AND FOR A ROYAL MUMMY,

THERE'S NO WAY THEY COULD'VE MADE A MISTAKE

AND MISTAKENLY LOSE KING TUT'S MUMMY ON FIRE, RIGHT?

TRUE. I MEAN, ANCIENT EGYPTIANS WERE INCREDIBLY GOOD

IN CHEMISTRY, RIGHT?

SO THEY WOULD DEFINITELY HAVE KNOWN THAT PART.

SO, WHATEVER HAPPENED, IT WAS ON PURPOSE.

WAS IT ON PURPOSE BECAUSE THERE WAS A CONSPIRACY

TO TRY TO MAKE SURE KING TUT'S MUMMY ACTUALLY GOES ON FIRE

AND DENY HIM FROM ACHIEVING IMMORTALITY

AND GO TO THE AFTERLIFE,

OR WERE THEY TRYING SOME SORT OF A NEW EXPERIMENT?

WELL, I CAN'T REALLY ELABORATE A LOT

ON WHAT THEY WERE TRYING TO DO, BUT WE CAN LOOK AT THE CHEMISTRY

OF HOW THE MUMMIFICATION PROCESS WAS GOING ON.

SO, THERE ARE TWO MAIN INGREDIENTS THAT WERE USED,

IN TERMS OF CHEMICALS.

ONE IS THE OILS THAT WAS COVERING THE MUMMY ITSELF,

AND THAT IS LINSEED OIL.

THE SECOND IS THE SALT THAT HAS BEEN USED

TO DRY OUT THE MUMMY ITSELF, AND THAT SALT

IS SO HEAVY, OLD SODIUM THAT HAS BEEN USED FOR CENTURIES.

NOW, WE DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND

WHAT'S THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THE SALT THAT WAS USED

AND THE LINEN, AND THIS IS SOMETHING

THAT SHOULD BE RESEARCHED AT ONE POINT.

IS THERE A WAY WE CAN RE-CREATE THAT PROCESS

AND SEE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN?

CERTAINLY.

SO, THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION IN ANY CHEMISTRY EXPERIMENT

IS VERY CRITICAL.

YOU HAVE TO REALLY GET THE RIGHT PROPORTIONS

AND THE RIGHT AMOUNT.

YOU NEED TO SOURCE THE MATERIAL

THAT WERE USED FROM THE SAME SOURCES,

AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE TO WHAT WAS AVAILABLE AT THAT TIME,

SO THAT WE CAN REPLICATE THE EXPERIMENT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS.

LIKE GO TO THE EXACT SAME SOURCE OF SALT

THAT ANCIENT EGYPTIANS USED AT THE TIME -- NATRON VALLEY.

YEP, NATRON VALLEY.

♪♪

NATRON VALLEY IS REALLY FAR.

WHY WOULD THEY GO ALL THE WAY TO GET THAT ONE SPECIFIC SALT?

BECAUSE THAT SALT IS SPECIAL.

♪♪

THEY COULD HAVE GOT IT FROM THE RED SEA.

THEY COULD HAVE GOT IT FROM DIFFERENT LAKES THAT DRIED OUT.

BUT THE QUALITY OF THE SALT HERE REALLY HELPS IN DEHYDRATING

WHATEVER MATERIAL REALLY STRONGLY AND FASTLY.

♪♪

HOW IMPORTANT IS THE PURITY OF THE SALT THAT WE GATHER?

I WOULD IMAGINE THAT THEY HAVE USED SOMETHING VERY PURE.

YES. SO OUR MISSION IS THE PUREST SALT THERE IS.

THE PUREST THAT WE CAN GET OUR HANDS ON, YEAH.

HERE WE ARE -- THE SALT LAKE OF NATRON VALLEY.

♪♪

SO, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR.

YEAH, WE'RE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING AS CLEAN AS THAT.

THIS WOULD'VE BEEN VERY USEFUL TO MUMMIFY A KING.

♪♪

THIS GOOD?IT'S PERFECT.

WELL, LET'S GO MAKE A MUMMY.

♪♪

SO, THE PLAN IS TO TRY TO REPLICATE THE SAME SCENARIO

THAT HAPPENED INSIDE KING TUT'S TOMB.

EXACTLY. SO, BASICALLY, WE HAVE SOME DRIED MEAT HERE,

AND WE DRIED IT IN THE SALT WE GOT FROM THE NATRON VALLEY.

GREAT. DRIED-OUT MEAT, KING TUT'S BODY.

YEAH.

AND THIS IS LINSEED OIL, RIGHT?

THIS IS LINSEED OIL.

AND NOW, LINSEED OIL IS A MATERIAL

THAT IS KNOWN TO SELF-COMBUST, AND THAT IS BECAUSE

IT HAS A LOT OF UNSATURATED CARBOHYDRATES IN IT.

AND CONTACT WITH OXYGEN, IT TRIES TO ACTUALLY POLYMERIZE,

AND THAT'S AN EXOTHERMIC REACTION,

WHICH ACTUALLY RESULTS IN HEAT.

THE PRIESTS RUBBED LINSEED OIL ON KING TUT'S BODY,

BECAUSE AS IT DRIED, IT HARDENED INTO A PROTECTIVE COATING.

HOWEVER, AS IT COMBINED WITH OXYGEN,

THE RESULTING CHEMICAL REACTION WOULD HAVE CREATED HEAT,

AND WE'RE TESTING TO SEE IF THAT HEAT WAS SUFFICIENT

TO CREATE SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.

COULD THAT BE WHAT CAUSED THE CHARRING ON KING TUT'S BODY?

SO, BACK IN THE TIME, YOU WOULD BE THE HIGH PRIEST.

YOU'VE HAVE THE SAME HAIRCUT,

AND YOU LOOK QUITE HIGH-PRIESTY.

GREAT.NOW LET'S SEE.

HERE YOU GO.

FOR SAFETY REASONS, WE NEED TO PUT THESE SAMPLES

UNDER THE EXHAUST HOOD.

AND THEN WE GO TO THE COOL DEVICE.

♪♪

IF LINSEED OIL IS TO BLAME, THEN WE SHOULD SEE

SOME SORT OF A CHEMICAL REACTION THAT PRODUCES SIMILAR CHARRING

TO WHAT WAS FOUND ON TUT'S MUMMY.

THIS IS HEATING UP FAST.

YEAH, IT IS.

180.

♪♪

AND JUST TO BE CLEAR, WE'RE NOT HEATING THESE.

WE'RE NOT ADDING ANY HEAT SOURCE.

NO. NO, THIS IS COMPLETELY A CHEMICAL REACTION.

I DIDN'T KNOW THIS WAS POSSIBLE.

TEMPERATURE'S UP.

[ SIZZLING ]WHOA!

Romany: SO, THE PLAN IS TO TRY TO REPLICATE THE SAME SCENARIO

THAT HAPPENED INSIDE KING TUT'S TOMB.

EXACTLY.

Romany: DR. ABDEL-MOTALLEB AND I ARE PERFORMING AN EXPERIMENT

TO SEE IF SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION IS POSSIBLE

USING ANCIENT MUMMIFICATION MATERIALS.

THIS COULD HELP BRING US CLOSER TO SOLVING THE MYSTERY

BEHIND KING TUT'S BURNT MUMMY.

♪♪

180.

THIS IS HEATING UP FAST.

YEAH, IT IS.

YOU SEE THE SMOKE, HUH?

YEAH.

IT'S REALLY, REALLY AMAZING TO BE LOOKING AT THOSE

AND SEEING THAT TRICKLE OF SMOKE COMING OUT,

KNOWING THAT KING TUT'S TOMB,

3,000 YEARS AGO,

COULD'VE BEEN SMOKING LIKE THIS WITHOUT ANYONE KNOWING.

WHOA! THAT'S A FULL-ON FIRE.

YEAH. AND, I MEAN, THIS ONE IS ACTUALLY BURNING.

I WOULD IMAGINE IF THERE WAS LESS AIR IN THERE,

IT WOULD ACTUALLY STOP AND COMPLETELY CHAR LIKE THIS.

♪♪

CHARRED LINEN WRAPPING POWDER.

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WAS IN THE NOTES OF HOWARD CARTER.

WELL, AND WE REPLICATED IT IN THE LAB.

THE SMOLDERING HERE CONFIRMS

THAT SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION WAS POSSIBLE.

BUT WHAT KEPT THIS OUTCOME FROM BEFALLING

ALL MUMMIES PRIOR TO TUT?

THE ANSWER IS LIKELY CONNECTED TO THE OTHER ANOMALY

OF TUT'S MUMMY -- THE EXCESSIVE RESIN.

WHEN NORMAL AMOUNTS OF RESIN ARE USED,

THIN LAYERS COULD'VE ALLOWED THE HEAT

FROM THE CHEMICAL REACTION TO ESCAPE.

BUT THE AMOUNT ON TUT'S MUMMY

COULD'VE INSTEAD BECOME A LAYER OF INSULATION

THAT PREVENTED THE HEAT FROM ESCAPING.

THE QUESTION IS, WHY MAKE THIS VARIATION

TO A 3,000-YEAR-OLD PRACTICE?

WHICH MAKES ME THINK THIS WAS ON PURPOSE.

THEY KNEW EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE DOING, BUT WHY WOULD THEY DO IT?

COULD THEY HAVE BEEN EXPERIMENTING

SOMETHING NEW?

THE SCIENCE IS CLEAR,

AND THE EGYPTIANS WERE AMAZING CHEMISTS

AS MUCH AS ASTRONOMERS AND ENGINEERS.

SO...

IT'S UP TO YOU TO FIGURE IT OUT.

♪♪

CHANGING THE TRADITIONAL MUMMIFICATION PROCEDURE

ON A KING WAS A RADICAL MOVE,

AND EXPLAINING IT MAY TAKE A RADICAL THEORY.

THAT'S WHY I'VE CONTACTED RESEARCHER FLORIN CHIRIAC.

HE'S STUDIED ALTERNATIVE THEORIES

ON EGYPTIAN MUMMIFICATION FOR YEARS,

INCLUDING THE UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS

OF THE NATRON VALLEY SALT.

♪♪

NOW, FLORIN, YOU HAVE A VERY INTERESTING THEORY OF YOUR OWN.

I WAS LOOKING AT NATRON SALT.

THE VERY SPECIAL SALT THEY USED

THAT IS ALL THE WAY FROM NATRON VALLEY.

THIS SALT IS VERY ALKALINIC.

IF YOU'RE COVERING UP THE REMAINS OF SOMEONE

WITH THIS KIND OF SALT,

ALL THESE REMAINS WILL BE PENETRATED BY THE ALKALINE SALT

AND WILL TRANSFORM THE BODY INTO AN ALKALINE CORE.

AN ALKALINE BODY. OKAY. AND I WAS -- YEAH.

THEN YOU ARE WRAPPING THE MUMMY WITH THE LINEN, RIGHT?

YES. AND THE PROCESS INVOLVES

ALSO POURING A RESIN THAT IS HIGHLY ACIDIC,

AND THE LINEN WILL CREATE A NEUTRAL BARRIER, OKAY?

WITH THE LINEN IN BETWEEN AS THE NEUTRAL.

YES.

WHEN YOU PUT ALL THIS STUFF TOGETHER

INTO GOLD COFFINS,

YOU WILL OBTAIN A BATTERY.

SO, YOU BELIEVE THE MUMMY COULD'VE BEEN A BATTERY,

BUT THEN, WHAT WOULD A BATTERY BE USEFUL FOR IN THIS FORM?

WHAT IF THE WHOLE MUMMIFICATION PROCESS

WILL BE KEEPING THE SPARK OF LIFE

INSIDE THE BODY?

ANCIENT EGYPTIANS BELIEVED THAT THERE WERE FIVE PARTS

TO A PERSON'S SOUL.

THE KA WAS THE SPARK OF LIFE, THE VITAL FORCE

THAT DISTINGUISHED THE LIVING FROM THE DEAD.

ALL LIVING THINGS HAD THE KA,

FROM PLANTS AND ANIMALS TO PEOPLE AND EVEN GODS.

IN DEATH, THE KA WOULD REANIMATE THE BODY,

MAKING IMMORTALITY A POSSIBILITY.

WE ARE DEALING HERE

WITH THE PRESERVATION OF THE SPARK OF LIFE.

THE THING IS, FROM MY EXPERIENCE WITH ANCIENT EGYPT,

I HAVEN'T SEEN ANY EVIDENCE THAT THEY HAVE MANAGED

TO CREATE ELECTRICITY OR A BATTERY.

THEY INVENTED CHEMISTRY.

MM. RIGHT?

I MEAN, THE OLDEST FORMS OF CHEMISTRY

ARE BORN IN EGYPT.

WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS A FACT,

BUT WHETHER THAT WAS ON PURPOSE OR NOT

OR WHETHER THAT'S A PART OF A BIGGER PLAN OR NOT,

THAT'S THE QUESTION.

♪♪

CREATING A BATTERY TO HARNESS THE SPARK OF LIFE

IS, YES, AN UNCONVENTIONAL THEORY.

HOWEVER, JUST THINK OF A SIMPLE BATTERY'S COMPONENTS.

THE ALKALINE CORE, THE NEUTRAL BARRIER,

AND THE ACIDIC LAYER COULD HAVE BEEN MIRRORED

BY THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MUMMIFICATION PROCESS,

AND THAT IS DEFINITELY INTRIGUING.

COULD THIS BE THE KEY BEHIND WHAT THEY WERE ATTEMPTING

WITH KING TUT'S MUMMY?

♪♪

THE ANSWER MIGHT BE 7,000 MILES AWAY,

SO THAT'S WHERE I'M HEADED NEXT.

I AM JUST OUTSIDE OF PHOENIX, ARIZONA,

AT A COMPANY CALLED ALCOR,

WHICH IS ONE OF THE ONLY CRYOPRESERVATION COMPANIES

IN THE WORLD.

CRYOPRESERVATION IS WHEN YOU FREEZE A DEAD BODY

IN HOPES THAT, ONE DAY IN THE FUTURE,

YOU'LL BE ABLE TO REVIVE IT,

TRYING TO ACHIEVE ONE GOAL -- IMMORTALITY,

THE SAME GOAL ANCIENT EGYPTIANS HAD

WHEN THEY TRIED TO MUMMIFY THEIR BODIES

THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO.

BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THIS PLACE MIGHT HAVE ANSWERS

TO QUESTIONS I HAVE ABOUT ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MUMMIES.

♪♪

SO, WHAT'S IN THIS PLACE, CHRIS?

SO, THIS IS OUR PATIENT CARE BAY.

SO, AFTER OUR PATIENTS HAVE COME FROM THE O.R. SUITE,

WE WILL BRING THEM IN HERE FOR FURTHER CRYOPRESERVATION PROCESS

USING THE LIQUID NITROGEN.

I'M HERE TO TALK WITH CHRISTOPHER DIVVER,

THE MEDICAL-RESPONSE DIRECTOR AT ALCOR.

HE'S AN EXPERT ON THE CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY

USED IN CRYONICS.

SO, ALL OF THESE DEWARS CONTAIN OUR PATIENTS.

INSIDE THESE CYLINDERS?

YES, SIR, EXACTLY.

SO, INSIDE THIS CYLINDER,

THERE ARE A BUNCH OF DEAD, FROZEN PEOPLE?

YES, SIR.

CRYONICALLY PRESERVED BODIES ARE STORED

AT EXTREMELY LOW TEMPERATURES --

AROUND MINUS-200 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT.

THE BODY IS FIRST RAPIDLY COOLED IN A BATH OF ICE WATER,

THEN THE BLOOD IS REMOVED FROM THE BODY

AND REPLACED WITH A CHEMICAL SOLUTION

THAT PROTECTS THE BODY FROM THE FORMATION OF ICE CRYSTALS.

THE PATIENT IS THEN PLACED

IN A DOUBLE-WALLED STAINLESS-STEEL CONTAINER

FILLED WITH LIQUID NITROGEN.

A BUDGET-MINDED PATIENT

MAY CHOOSE TO HAVE THE SAME PROCEDURE DONE

BUT ONLY TO THEIR HEAD.

THERE ARE FOUR WHOLE-BODY PATIENTS IN HERE

AND FIVE NEURO PATIENTS IN HERE.

WHAT ABOUT A DEWAR AS SMALL AS THIS ONE?

WE USE THAT SMALLER DEWAR FOR OUR ANIMALS.

SOME OF OUR PATIENTS HAVE REQUESTED

THAT THEY WANT TO BRING THEIR PETS INTO THE AFTER --

YES, OF COURSE.INTO THE FUTURE WITH THEM.

THAT'S FASCINATING. IT'S EXACTLY WHAT ANCIENT EGYPTIANS DID.

THEY DIDN'T JUST MUMMIFY THEIR DEAD.

THEY ALSO MUMMIFIED THEIR PETS.

SAME STORY.

AND LOOKING AT THIS,

THIS IS BASICALLY THE MASS-BURIAL SITE OF THE FUTURE.

YES. IT IS JUST NOT IN A PYRAMID.

CRYONICS AND MUMMIFICATION SEEM TO SHARE SEVERAL CONNECTIONS.

THE ANSWER TO WHAT THE HIGH PRIESTS OF ANCIENT EGYPT

WERE INTENDING FOR KING TUT'S MUMMIFICATION,

THE SPARK OF LIFE, IMMORTALITY,

COULD BE FOUND WITHIN THESE WALLS.

WOW! LOOK AT THAT.

THIS IS BASICALLY THE MASS-BURIAL SITE OF THE FUTURE.

YES. IT IS JUST NOT IN A PYRAMID.

Romany: I'M AT A CRYONIC PRESERVATION LAB OUTSIDE OF PHOENIX, ARIZONA,

TO SEE IF MODERN SCIENCE AND ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TECHNOLOGY

COULD'VE BEEN ZEROING IN ON THE SAME TARGET --

MAINTAINING THE SPARK OF LIFE.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT I LOVE THE MOST ABOUT ALL THIS?

WHAT'S THAT?

IF WE KEEP MUMMIFYING PEOPLE INTO THE FUTURE,

I WILL NEVER BE OUT OF A JOB.

YOU AND I BOTH.

[ BOTH LAUGH ]

AND HOW OFTEN DO YOU NEED TO GO INSIDE AND FIX THINGS?

WE DON'T GO INSIDE THE DEWAR AT ALL.

ONCE THE TOP IS SEALED, THE PATIENTS ARE PRESERVED.

IF YOU TAKE THE LID OFF THE TOP OF IT,

THE LIQUID NITROGEN WILL START TO BOIL OFF,

WHICH WE DO NOT WANT.

SO WE NEED TO KEEP THE PATIENTS IMMERSED

IN A LIQUID-NITROGEN BATH, WHICH IS WHAT THIS DOES.

SO, EVERY WEEK, WE'LL TOP OFF THESE TANKS,

BECAUSE THE BOIL-OFF STILL HAPPENS.

DO YOU NEED HELP?

MY FRIEND MIKE IN THE BACK IS GONNA HELP US WITH THAT.

♪♪

WOW! LOOK AT THAT.

EVEN THOUGH THE LIQUID NITROGEN IS IN A VACUUM SEAL,

IT STILL DOES BOIL OFF AT ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURES.

THAT'S AMAZING.

♪♪

ARE WE SAFE STANDING HERE?!YES.

YOU'RE GONNA GET COLD, BUT YOU'RE VERY SAFE STANDING HERE.

IT'S LIKE WATCHING A SCI-FI MOVIE.

YES.MAKING THE MUMMIES OF THE FUTURE

USING LIQUID NITROGEN.

EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE DOING.

SO, IN ANCIENT EGYPT,

THEY WRAPPED THEM UP TO TRY AND PRESERVE THEM.

WHAT THE LIQUID NITROGEN DOES IS, IT IMMERSES THEM IN A BATH,

KEEPS THEM TO THAT INCREDIBLY COLD TEMPERATURE

SO THERE'S NO MORE AGING PROCESS

SO THAT THEY CAN STAY THE WAY THAT THEY ARE

WHEN THEY WERE PLACED INTO THE DEWAR.

WHATEVER DISEASE YOU DIED FROM, ONCE THAT IS CURABLE,

THERE'S NO REASON THAT THEY CANNOT REANIMATE YOU,

CURE WHATEVER THE DISEASE PROCESS WAS,

AND THEN YOU JUST CONTINUE TO LIVE.

WHAT IS DEATH?

ON THE VERY TECHNICAL TERMS, NOT PHILOSOPHY.

I WOULD SAY THAT YOU ARE DEAD WHEN YOU ARE --

YOU'RE FLATLINE. THERE'S NO MORE ELECTRICITY IN YOUR HEART,

THERE'S NO PULSE. THERE'S NO BRAINWAVES.

SO, BASICALLY, WHEN THERE'S NO MORE ELECTRICITY IN THE BODY,

THE BODY IS DEAD.CORRECT.

BUT HOW DO YOU BRING LIFE BACK?

WHAT IS THAT SPARK? WHAT IS THAT THING

THAT WILL MAKE THIS FROZEN BODY A LIVING HUMAN?

I BELIEVE THAT THE PROCESS WILL INVOLVE ELECTRICITY,

AND IT'LL INVOLVE A LOT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

THAT WE HAVE NOT CONQUERED YET.

AND YOU BELIEVE, ONE DAY,

THE PATIENTS HERE WILL HAVE SOMETHING

AS SIMPLE AS ELECTRICAL CURRENTS BACK INTO THEIR BODY,

AND THEY LIVE AGAIN?

YES.

IT'S ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING.

THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MUMMIFICATION

AND CRYOPRESERVATION JUST BLOWS MY MIND AWAY.

IT'S VERY SIMILAR

HOW HUMANS ACT...AMAZING SIMILARITIES. YEP.

...OVER THOUSANDS OF YEARS.

THEY ALL WANT TO ACHIEVE ONE GOAL -- IMMORTALITY.

YES.

♪♪

UNDERSTANDING THAT THE ELECTRICAL CURRENT

IS TODAY'S MEDICAL MEASURE OF LIFE AND DEATH

IS A CRUCIAL PIECE OF INFORMATION,

AND THAT FOR AT LEAST CRYONIC PATIENTS,

THE SPARK OF LIFE IS SOMETHING FAR MORE LITERAL.

NOW AS I HEAD BACK TO EGYPT, IT SEEMS MUCH MORE PLAUSIBLE

THAT THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS

WERE WORKING TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING BIOELECTRICITY.

AND TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SPARK OF LIFE

AND HOW IT MAY CONNECT TO KING TUT,

I'M GOING TO THE MUSEUM OF EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES IN CAIRO

TO MEET WITH A WORLD-RENOWNED TUT EXPERT

AND A FAMILY FRIEND, DR. SALIMA IKRAM.

I WAS IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA,

AT A PLACE THAT DOES CRYOPRESERVATION.

HOW COOL.THERE'S A LOT OF SIMILARITIES

BETWEEN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MUMMIFICATION

AND CRYOPRESERVATION FROM TODAY.

I ALWAYS SAY EVERYTHING WAS INVENTED IN ANCIENT EGYPT.

YES, YES, EXACTLY.

BUT THEN, I WENT TO KING TUT'S TOMB,

AND AS WE BOTH KNOW, THE MUMMY OF KING TUT

WAS BURNT AFTER BURIAL,

INSIDE HIS COFFIN.

EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE MULTIPLE DIFFERENT ANOMALIES

IN KING TUT'S MUMMY,

I WONDER IF THEY WERE TRYING TO TEST

A NEW TYPE OF...

TECHNOLOGY?...TECHNOLOGY

TO MAKE SURE THAT KING TUT GETS IMMORTALITY.

SO, WHEN YOU LOOK AT ALL OF THIS TOGETHER,

IT'S WEIRD BECAUSE IT DOESN'T FIT ANY PATTERN.

BUT THE ONLY PATTERN IT DOES FIT IS THAT OF THE GOD OSIRIS.

SO, TUTANKHAMUN WAS BRINGING EVERYTHING BACK

TO THE OLD RELIGION, AND ONE OF THE THINGS IS THAT,

WHEN YOU DIE, YOU BECOME THE GOD OSIRIS,

THE LIVING EMBODIMENT, OR RATHER THE DEAD EMBODIMENT,

OF OSIRIS.

GOD OSIRIS REPRESENTS REBIRTH AND REGENERATION.

BORN A KING, HE WAS MURDERED BY HIS BROTHER

AND RESURRECTED TO RULE THE AFTERLIFE.

ANCIENT EGYPTIANS BELIEVED THAT, IN ORDER TO REACH THE AFTERLIFE,

ONE'S HEART HAD TO BE WEIGHED BY OSIRIS

ON A SCALE AGAINST A FEATHER.

IF THE HEART WAS LIGHTER THAN THE FEATHER,

THEN THE KA, OR THE SPIRIT,

WAS FREE TO REJOIN THE BODY IN THE AFTERLIFE.

BUT IF THE HEART WAS HEAVIER THAN THE FEATHER,

IT WOULD BE DEVOURED BY THE BEAST-LIKE GODDESS AMMUT,

AND THE SOUL WOULD CEASE TO EXIST.

COME OVER HERE, RAMY, BECAUSE I WANT TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING.

OKAY. YOU KNOW THE GOD OSIRIS, WHO YOU SEE RIGHT THERE.

Romany: YES.

AND THERE'S TUTANKHAMUN IN THE MIDDLE.

AND THIS IS RIGHT AT THE DOOR WHERE HE WAS BURIED.

HE WAS BURIED INSIDE THIS BOX.

ABSOLUTELY. SO, REALLY, THIS WAS THE GATEWAY

FOR TUTANKHAMUN'S RESURRECTION.

IN HIS TOMB, HE'S SHOWN AS OSIRIS.

SO, IN OTHER TOMBS, YOU GET OSIRIS WITH THE KING,

MEETING AND GREETING LIKE YOU GET HERE.

BUT TUTANKHAMUN'S TOMB IS THE ONLY ONE

WHERE YOU HAVE TUTANKHAMUN AS OSIRIS.

IT DOES EMPHASIZE THE IDEA OF RESURRECTION AND REBIRTH.

INTERESTING.

BUT I CAN'T EVEN PRETEND TO HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS.

YEAH, BUT THAT'S THE THING WITH KING TUT'S MUMMY --

THERE'S SO MANY ANOMALIES, SO MANY QUESTIONS,

AND I THINK OSIRIS MIGHT BE KEY.

I HOPE SO.

SALIMA'S THEORY, THE OSIRIS-KING TUT CONNECTION,

IS INTRIGUING.

I THINK IT WAS SOMETHING THAT HAD TO DO

WITH THE AFTERLIFE WITH IMMORTALITY.

AND I KNOW OF ONE PLACE THAT MIGHT HAVE THE ANSWERS --

A SUBTERRANEAN TOMB COMPLEX BEHIND THE SPHINX IN GIZA --

THE SHAFT OF OSIRIS.

[ HEARTBEAT ]

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HERE WE ARE -- THE GREAT PYRAMIDS OF GIZA.

I'M INVESTIGATING KING TUT'S MYSTERIOUSLY BURNT MUMMY.

SOME BELIEVE THAT THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS

WERE HARNESSING ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY

TO CREATE A CHEMICAL REACTION

THAT COULD MAINTAIN THE SPARK OF LIFE

AND HELP KING TUT ACHIEVE IMMORTALITY.

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TO PROVE SUCH A RADICAL THEORY, I NEED TO FIND EVIDENCE

THAT THEY CONTINUED THE NEW BURIAL PRACTICE AFTER KING TUT.

I NEED TO FIND OTHER BURNT SARCOPHAGI,

AND THE SHAFT OF OSIRIS IS THE IDEAL PLACE TO SEARCH.

WE'RE ABOUT TO GO INTO THE TUNNEL RIGHT BEHIND THE SPHINX

THAT WAS JUST EXCAVATED 20 YEARS AGO.

THAT PLACE IS CALLED [SPEAKING EGYPTIAN]

WHICH MEANS THE HOUSE OF GOD OSIRIS,

THE GOD OF UNDERGROUND TUNNELS.

BUT BEFORE I DESCEND INTO THE SHAFT,

IT'S WORTH GETTING ADVICE FROM THE MAN WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE

FOR EXCAVATING IT -- MY GODFATHER, DR. ZAHI HAWASS.

WHAT DOES OSIRIS REALLY MEAN FOR ANCIENT EGYPTIANS?

OSIRIS IS THE KING OF THE KINGDOM OF THE UNDERWORLD.

OSIRIS, HE WAS KILLED,

BUT BECAUSE HE CAME TO LIFE AGAIN,

THEY THOUGHT ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE,

AND THAT IS THE IDEA THAT BUILT EGYPT.

SO, HE MEANS IMMORTALITY.

OSIRIS MEANS IMMORTALITY.

OSIRIS IS A MOST IMPORTANT KING FOR THE AFTERLIFE.

THE SHAFT OF OSIRIS IS THE IDEAL PLACE TO SEARCH

BECAUSE IT IS THAT CONNECTION OF ALL OF ANCIENT EGYPT

IN ONE SHAFT.

TUT WAS A MEMBER OF THE 18th DYNASTY,

AND THE SARCOPHAGI THAT HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED

INSIDE THE SHAFT DATE UP TO THE 26th DYNASTY,

HUNDREDS OF YEARS AFTER KING TUT.

NOW, DO YOU HAVE ANY ADVICE FOR ME BEFORE I COMMIT?

I WANT YOU TO WATCH OUT.

IT'S NOT EASY.

IT'S DANGEROUS.

AND THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT I CANNOT TELL YOU,

ABOUT THE LEVEL OF THE WATER.

THE LEVEL OF THE WATER, IT CHANGE, EVERY MONTH.

THE WATER TABLE CAN GO UP, OR IT CAN GO DOWN.

IT TOOK US ABOUT THREE MONTHS TO TAKE THE WATER OUT,

BECAUSE THAT SHAFT DIVIDED TO THREE FLOORS --

FIRST, SECOND, AND THE THIRD.

THE SHAFT OF OSIRIS IS ONE OF THE MANY

ARCHAEOLOGICAL MYSTERIES AT GIZA.

UNLIKE THE PYRAMIDS AND THE GREAT SPHINX,

THE SHAFT WASN'T EXCAVATED

TILL THE END OF THE 20th CENTURY.

THE REASON WHY -- THE STRUCTURE WAS COMPLETELY UNDERGROUND,

AND FOR MUCH OF MODERN HISTORY, IT WAS FILLED WITH WATER.

THE OPENING OF THE SHAFT WAS ACTUALLY USED BY THE LOCALS

AS A SWIMMING HOLE.

OVER TIME, THE WATER TABLE SHIFTED,

AND IN 1999, DR. ZAHI HAWASS AND HIS TEAM

WERE ABLE TO DRAIN AND THEN EXCAVATE SOME OF THE SHAFT.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS BELIEVE THAT THE DEEPEST LEVEL

WAS BUILT AS A BURIAL CHAMBER

FOR THE LORD OF THE UNDERWORLD, GOD OSIRIS,

AND THAT THERE'S STILL UNEXCAVATED TUNNEL

COMING OFF OF IT

THAT CONNECTED TO OTHER STRUCTURES ON THE PLATEAU.

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RIGHT, HERE IT IS.

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UNLIKE A LOT OF PLACES ON THE GIZA PLATEAU,

THIS PLACE IS A COMPLETE MYSTERY,

BECAUSE, TILL TODAY,

WE DON'T REALLY KNOW WHEN THEY BUILT IT,

HOW THEY BUILT IT, WHY THEY BUILT IT.

BUT I THINK THAT TUNNEL MIGHT GET US CLOSER

TO SOLVING THIS MYSTERY.

HOW CLOSE WERE THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS TO IMMORTALITY?

HOW CLOSE WAS KING TUT

TO REACHING THAT HIGH-TECH MUMMIFICATION PROCESS?

♪♪

120 FEET INTO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH,

GOD OSIRIS' SARCOPHAGUS.

THIS FIRST LEVEL IS THE EASY ONE.

WHEN THEY FIRST HEARD ABOUT THIS PLACE,

THIS WAS ALL JUST WATER TABLE.

THE WATER ROSE ALL THE WAY UP HERE.

IT WAS SUCH A FAMOUS PLACE THAT ALL THE KIDS WOULD COME

TO THE PYRAMIDS AND SWIM ABOUT HERE.

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AFTER THEY TOOK THE WATER OUT, THEY FOUND THIS.

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AN ENDLESS SHAFT. TREACHEROUS.

AND YOU CAN'T REALLY SEE THE BOTTOM,

AND THE WATER LEVEL CHANGES HERE ALL THE TIME,

DEPENDING ON THE FLOOD SEASON OR NOT,

BECAUSE THIS IS JUST THE WATER TABLE.

IF YOU HAVE A FEAR OF HEIGHTS, DON'T BE AN EGYPTOLOGIST.

THE BEST WAY BEFORE YOU GO DOWN

IS TO TEST SOMETHING OTHER THAN YOURSELF FIRST.

IF THE GROUND WATER LEVEL WAS TOO HIGH,

THE SECOND CHAMBER COULD BE COMPLETELY FLOODED,

MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE

FOR ME TO FIND THE EVIDENCE I'M SEARCHING FOR --

ADDITIONAL BURNT SARCOPHAGI --

THAT WOULD SHOW THAT THE EGYPTIANS EXTENDED

THEIR NEW TECHNOLOGICAL BURIAL PRACTICES BEYOND KING TUT.

♪♪

OKAY. LET'S SEE IF WE GET TO KEEP GOING.

[ GLOW STICK CRACKS ]

♪♪

THERE'S NO WATER ON THE SECOND LEVEL.

GONNA KEEP GOING DOWN.

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THIS DOES FEEL LIKE

IT'S A JOURNEY TO THE UNDERWORLD.

AND IT IS.

THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS

INTENDED IT TO BE --

A GATEWAY THAT TAKES YOU TO IMMORTALITY.

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AND YOU CAN SEE THE RUST.

THIS LADDER RIGHT HERE?

COMPLETELY BROKE OFF, BECAUSE THIS IS NORMALLY FULL OF WATER.

♪♪

HERE IT IS.

THE SECOND LEVEL.

THIS PLACE WAS HIDDEN FOR A LONG TIME

UNDER THE WATER.

THERE'S ONE MORE LEVEL HERE

THAT I'M HOPING CONTAINS THE SARCOPHAGUSES.

[ WATER DRIPPING ]

OH, WOW.

[ WATER DRIPPING ]

THAT'S NOT GOOD NEWS.

DO YOU HEAR THAT?

THAT'S WATER.

IF THE THIRD LEVEL IS FLOODED, THEN IT'S UNLIKELY

I'LL BE ABLE TO REACH THE SARCOPHAGUS BURIED THERE.

BUT NOW I ACTUALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M GONNA DO.

♪♪

[BLEEP]

♪♪

Romany: THE GREAT PYRAMIDS OF GIZA --

KHUFU, KHEFREN, AND MENKAURE.

THE GREAT PYRAMID ITSELF IS STILL BEING DISCOVERED.

JUST TWO YEARS AGO, THEY FOUND A VOID

THAT IS AS LARGE AS THE STATUE OF LIBERTY.

BACK AT KING TUT'S TIME,

THESE WERE 1,000 YEARS OLD ALREADY.

KING TUT WOULD COME AND VISIT IT WITH HIS FAMILY.

THEY WERE A TOURIST ATTRACTION EVEN BACK THEN.

I'VE BEEN HERE OVER A THOUSAND TIMES,

AND I'M NOT EXAGGERATING -- OVER A THOUSAND TIMES.

BUT EVERY TIME I'M HERE, I STAND,

I LOOK AT THEM...

I'M STILL MIND-BLOWN.

♪♪

Romany: THIS PLACE WAS HIDDEN FOR A LONG TIME

UNDER THE WATER.

I'M 120 FEET DEEP

BEHIND THE SPHINX IN THE SHAFT OF OSIRIS,

INVESTIGATING IF THE ANOMALIES IN KING TUT'S MUMMY

WERE ACTUALLY ENERGY-HARNESSING TECHNOLOGY

THAT WAS MEANT TO GUARANTEE IMMORTALITY.

AND IF THE PRACTICE CONTINUED AFTER TUT,

I'M HOPING THE THIRD AND DEEPEST CHAMBER OF THIS SHAFT

HOLDS THE ANSWERS.

BUT WITH THE CONSTANTLY SHIFTING WATER TABLE,

IT'S UNCERTAIN IF I CAN EVEN REACH IT.

WELL, THERE'S ONE MORE LEVEL HERE.

♪♪

OH, WOW.

[ WATER DRIPPING ]

THAT'S NOT GOOD NEWS.

DO YOU HEAR THAT?

THAT'S WATER.

BUT NOW I ACTUALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M GONNA DO.

♪♪

[BLEEP]

THE WATER LEVEL IS MUCH HIGHER THAN I WAS HOPING FOR,

BUT I'VE COME THIS FAR,

SO I'M GOING TO SEE IF THERE'S SECTIONS

THAT I CAN STILL EXPLORE IN THE THIRD CHAMBER.

♪♪

I FOUND A DRY SPOT.

[ GRUNTING ]

ALL RIGHT, I'M HERE.

THIS IS IT.

OH, MY GOD.

♪♪

♪♪

[ WATER PLOPS ]

WHAT WAS THAT?

♪♪

NOTHING, I GUESS.

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AND THIS RIGHT HERE IS WHERE THE SARCOPHAGUS IS.

CAN BARELY SEE UNDER THE WATER NOW.

THIS IS THE TOMB OF OSIRIS, THE OSIRIS SHAFT.

I CAME HERE HOPING TO INVESTIGATE THE SARCOPHAGUS

OF GOD OSIRIS,

TO SEE IF IT HAD THE SAME ANOMALIES AS KING TUT'S,

BUT, UNFORTUNATELY, THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE POSSIBLE

WITH IT BEING COMPLETELY SUBMERGED UNDERWATER.

HOWEVER, THERE ARE STILL OTHER CHAMBERS TO EXPLORE.

♪♪

♪♪

RIGHT HERE. THIS.

♪♪

THAT SARCOPHAGUS RIGHT HERE.

I'M ACTUALLY NOTICING...

THIS LOOKS PRETTY BURNT.

♪♪

IT'S QUITE BURNT HERE.

LOOKING AT THIS AND THE AMOUNT OF RESIN ON TOP OF IT,

THE AMOUNT OF BLACK, DARK RESIN --

EVEN ON TOP OF THE CHAMBER --

YOU GOT TO WONDER IF THE SAME THING HAPPENED

TO THIS SARCOPHAGUS AS IT HAPPENED IN TUT'S.

THESE SARCOPHAGI, THESE ARE NOT FROM THE OLD KINGDOM,

NOT FROM THE TIME OF THE PYRAMID BUILDERS.

BUT THIS DATES BACK TO THE 26th DYNASTY,

WHICH IS NEARLY ANOTHER 600, 700 YEARS

AFTER KING TUT HIMSELF.

AND IF KING TUT HAD STARTED A NEW TECHNOLOGY

WITH MUMMIFICATION,

IT COULD'VE VERY WELL CARRIED TO HERE.

THIS IS EVIDENCE THAT THE BURIAL PRACTICES USED ON KING TUT,

ADVANCED CHEMISTRY INTENDED TO HARNESS THE SPARK OF LIFE,

WERE NO MISTAKE.

TUT WAS SIMPLY THE FIRST PHARAOH

TO UNDERGO THE NEW PROCESS.

AND THE PRIESTS CONTINUED THIS TECHNIQUE

FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS.

I THINK HOW MUCH DID THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS PUT FORTH

OF SUPERHUMAN POWER AND TECHNOLOGY

AND SO MUCH TIME JUST FOR ONE PURPOSE

AND ONE PURPOSE ONLY -- TO ACHIEVE IMMORTALITY.

THIS ADVANCED CIVILIZATION COULD HAVE BEEN

EVEN FURTHER ALONG IN THE APPLICATION OF SCIENCES

THAN EGYPTOLOGISTS FIRST IMAGINED.

IF KING TUT'S MUMMY SIGNALS THE AWARENESS OF BIOELECTRICITY,

THE TRUE SPARK OF LIFE,

JUST HOW CLOSE DID THEY COME TO THAT ACHIEVEMENT?

♪♪

ONE DAY, WE MAY DISCOVER THE KEY THAT UNLOCKS IMMORTALITY,

AND I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF THE ANSWER ALL STARTED

IN A TOMB MORE THAN 3,000 YEARS OLD

IN THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS,

WITH THE MUMMY OF KING TUT.