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NARRATOR: Egypt, the richest source
of archaeological treasures on the planet.

SALIMA IKRAM:
Oh, that's a fabulous one!

NARRATOR:
Beneath this desert landscape...

lies the secrets
of this ancient civilization.

JOHN WARD: Wow, you can see
why the pharaohs chose this place.

NARRATOR:
Now, for a full season of excavations

our cameras have been given
unprecedented access...

to follow teams
on the front line of archeology...

ASHRAF MOHIE: I'm driving so fast
because I'm so excited!

KATHLEEN MARTINEZ: It's an entrance.
We can see an entrance.

NARRATOR:
...revealing buried secrets...

ANTONIO MORALES: I have just been told
that they have found something.

DR. DON RYAN: Oh my God.

NARRATOR: ...and making discoveries
that could rewrite ancient history.

This time, new secrets about
one of Egypt's greatest rulers...

WORKERS: Hey-ah-ho!

NARRATOR:
...the Pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut.

Dr. Szafranski discovers buried treasures
at her magnificent temple.

DR. ZBIGNIEW SZAFRANSKI:
Her wish was to be remembered

for millions of years.

NARRATOR:
The Darnells uncover how she formed

a mysterious double identity
to seize power.

DR. COLLEEN DARNELL:
"For my beloved daughter," not son.

NARRATOR: And John and Maria
unearth a rare and intriguing statue.

WARD (off screen):
Hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold!

Do you realize what you've
just pulled out of the sand?

(theme music playing)

NARRATOR:
Luxor, Egypt,

a landscape strewn with ancient ruins
and magnificent temples

built for the great pharaohs of Egypt.

Cut into the surrounding mountains lies
the finest temple of them all.

Its owner was a revolutionary,

a rare female pharaoh,

called Hatshepsut.

Now archaeologists are searching for clues

to reveal more about this
enigmatic pharaoh queen.

Leading the hunt is Polish archaeologist
Dr. Zbigniew Szafranski.

DR. SZAFRANSKI:
I've been working here since 30 years.

Every day is something new

to know

to discover

to find.

Perhaps a never-ending story.

NARRATOR: This landscape is dominated
by Hatshepsut's immense temple,

constructed to commemorate
her reign as a pharaoh.

Ancient builders carved the site
directly into the towering rocky cliffs.

They constructed it
in three separate levels,

each one a terrace connected
by ramps over a hundred feet long.

At the top, 26 statues of the god
of the underworld, Osiris,

stand as guardians.

This masterpiece
of ancient architecture is the key

to the secrets of
the Pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut.

DR. SZAFRANSKI (off screen):
It is an exceptional building.

The temple is unique in the history
of Egyptian architecture

and in the history
of the world architecture.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR: Dr. Szafranski and his team
have been excavating and restoring

Hatshepsut's temple
for the past 19 seasons.

DR. SZAFRANSKI: Hi, hi, hi!

NARRATOR: They are on a mission
to piece the temple ruins back together.

A hundred and twenty years ago,

legendary British Egyptologist
Howard Carter

was part of the team
that excavated this site.

Much of the temple was
buried and badly damaged,

and little was known about its owner.

♪ ♪

Today, Dr. Szafranski continues the work
to restore and rebuild the temple,

to reveal the secrets
of the Pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut.

DR. SZAFRANSKI:
She was a volcano of ideas.

We hope to excavate,

to know more about her plans,
about herself,

her dynasty.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR: Hatshepsut was only
the second woman ever to become a pharaoh,

and the first for nearly 300 years.

The fearless queen oversaw military
campaigns to Egypt's southern borders,

and claimed to have visit
the battlefield herself.

She built a fleet of ships
to sail the Red Sea,

and reestablished
an international trade network,

bringing back exotic goods and riches.

Under Hatshepsut, Egypt prospered,
and she built giant monuments

across the country to show
that she was in control.

Hatshepsut's temple was just one of around
ten megastructures she built

during her 22-year reign.

Across the Nile, she erected vast swathes
of a giant temple complex called Karnak,

and a 30-meter obelisk,
the largest standing in Egypt today.

But the extraordinary life of this radical
woman still poses many mysteries.

Now, archaeologists are
on the hunt for new clues.

♪ ♪

Eighty miles south of her temple
in Gebel el-Silsila,

lies one of Hatshepsut's quarries.

Here, on the banks of the Nile...

WARD:
What do you want, mate?

NARRATOR: ...John Ward
and Maria Nilsson from Lund University

are getting ready to excavate
at the quarry.

WARD (off screen):
These lovely eggs.

DR. MARIA NILSSON (off screen):
Do you want some bread?

NARRATOR: They want to investigate
how Hatshepsut used

the quarry during her reign.

And in dig season, they live on this boat
with their baby son Jonathan,

daughter Freya, and dog Carter.

DR. NILSSON: What are you
going to do today, Freya?

FREYA:
Play in the sand.

-DR. NILSSON: Yeah?
-WARD: When you're a little bit older,

you can come
over and help Daddy, yeah?

DR. NILSSON: Archeology and Egypt itself
has been with me since I was a kid.

I knew from the beginning.

That I'm here now is no surprise
to family and friends back home.

The very day that I gave
birth to Jonathan

we were going through
what we actually needed on site.

WARD: We never stop,
it never stops for us.

-DR. NILSSON: No.
-WARD: Even on Christmas Day.

Guys, come on!

We ready?

NARRATOR: John and Maria have spent
the last ten seasons

investigating this site
used by Hatshepsut.

WARD:
Hatshepsut was responsible for removing

hundreds of thousands of tons of sandstone
from this quarry alone,

let alone the other quarries
across the whole landscape.

NARRATOR:
With evidence of over 10,000 years

of human activity
across 15 square miles,

it's one of the largest
archaeological sites in Egypt.

Here, the couple are excavating
an abandoned statue

and want to know
if it belonged to Hatshepsut.

DR. NILSSON:
Good morning Sphinxy.

NARRATOR:
An unfinished, ram-headed sphinx.

-WARD: It's a unique find.
-DR. NILSSON: It is.

NARRATOR: The sphinx is
a mythical beast modeled on a lion,

but with the head of a human.

Others were carved with the head of a ram
and are known as "criosphinxes."

They act as guardians,
protecting the entrances

to pyramids, temples, and sacred sites.

It's thought that Hatshepsut
started the greatest display

of sphinxes known to ancient Egypt,

an avenue of sphinxes,
enhanced over the centuries,

stretching nearly two miles between
the great temples of Luxor and Karnak.

DR. NILSSON (off screen):
It's absolutely amazing.

It's one of those dreams to work
with this kind of monumental statue.

WARD: Come on. Let's go down.

NARRATOR: John and Maria
need to dig out the buried sphinx

to confirm where this statue
was meant to go,

and set to work to see
what lies beneath the sand.

-KHALED SHAWKY: Okay, guys! Stop!
-WARD: Good guys.

NARRATOR: A hundred and 20 miles
from Luxor, in Aswan,

lies Qubbet el-Hawa.

This site is a densely occupied necropolis
of around a hundred ancient tombs.

Some of these tombs have never been opened
and hold secrets

to how the necropolis was being used
during Hatshepsut's time.

DR. MARTINA BARDOŇOVÁ:
It's amazing.

NARRATOR: Archaeologist Martina Bardoňová
is part of a Spanish team

preparing to open up
one of the unexplored tombs.

DR. BARDOŇOVÁ: When I was about 15,
I read about archeology in Egypt

and I completely fall in love.

DR. BARDOŇOVÁ: It's been several years
I'm coming and I'm still like, wow!

I can't believe it, you know.

Can you imagine how it is
when your dreams come true?

♪ ♪

NARRATOR: Martina wants to excavate
inside a new, unopened tomb,

but before she can get to it,

she needs to clear a pathway
through the sand outside.

BARDOŇOVÁ (off screen):
Everything is covered.

I'm thinking about which way
to take off the sand--

the basic problem here.

NARRATOR: Strong desert winds have blown
sand in front of the tomb entrance.

(speaking native language)

NARRATOR:
But after just an hour clearing a path,

the team make a discovery
that could put a halt to everything.

DR. BARDOŇOVÁ: Ah!

NARRATOR:
One of Martina's team has found

parts of a body hidden in the sand.

DR. BARDOŇOVÁ:
There is a burial.

Basically you can see the skull,

with the remains of the hair.

NARRATOR: These human remains
appear to be ancient.

BARDOŇOVÁ (off screen):
Basically, it's so fragile

when you touch it, or when you,

when even the sand around moves,
it's just falling apart.

We can put wet toilet paper,
because otherwise the bones crack.

WOMAN: Yeah.

NARRATOR: Martina needs to find out
why this body is outside the tomb

and any clues that will help her
to put a date on the burial.

As she clears away the sand,

the bones reveal something
even more unusual.

DR. BARDOŇOVÁ: It looks like a child,
it might be a child.

NARRATOR:
In the quarry at Gebel el-Silsila,

John and Maria are excavating

what could be
one of Hatshepsut's sphinxes.

WARD: Come and get your apples
and pears now! Come and get them!

This is my archaeological field box.

It's a little bit heavy,
but this is the prototype.

A new version will come next season,
I hope, which will be lighter.

♪ ♪

At the moment we've just got
a nice stony layer on top

which goes for the first
two to three centimeters,

then, beneath that, if I stick
my little magical tool inside

and then withdraw it...

it's full of that,

which to the untrained eye is
just black powder.

Actually, that's iron filings
from the chisels

of the quarrymen of these quarries.

The sand still today contains
a memory of all that work

that took place here
thousands of years ago.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR: The sand even holds clues
about what the workers had for lunch.

WARD (off screen):
Fish bones.

Someone could've had a nice meal
down by the belly of the sphinx.

NARRATOR:
As work continues,

the team unearths something
remarkable from under the sphinx.

WARD (off screen): Hold, hold, hold,
hold, hold, hold, hold!

No, no, no, no, no!
Stand there, stand there.

(laughs)

Do you realize what he's just pulled out?

A small sphinx! Ha!

Oh, wow!

That is absolutely beautiful.

A small criosphinx.

There's the two haunches.

There's the head, there's the head.

There's the body, here's the body.

What a discovery!
I mean, it's fantastic, it really is.

-SHAWKY: Wow.
-WARD (off screen): Isn't she beautiful?

NARRATOR: Large sphinx statues
are seen throughout Egypt,

but a miniature on this scale is
one of a kind.

WARD:
Meet the child.

NARRATOR: And must be recorded
by the dig inspector, Khaled Shawky.

Khaled is supervising the dig to report
any finds back to the Egyptian government.

SHAWKY (off screen):
This is amazing.

This is very wonderful.

WARD:
Personally, I think it's a model.

Was it the son or a child, possibly,

or the apprentice copying the master?

-The master's making the real thing...
-SHAWKY: This is a copy, yes, I think so.

WARD: ...and he's making a copy.
You've got the horn here.

-SHAWKY: I see that, yes.
-WARD: For that.

-But this side is broken off.
-SHAWKY: Yeah.

WARD: He's gone in there
and he's gone whack!

-SHAWKY: I see that.
-WARD: And the whole, boom!

And that's probably why it was discarded.

NARRATOR: John thinks the miniature
was carved out for practice.

-WARD (off screen): Fantastic.
-SHAWKY: Brilliant, well done.

NARRATOR:
It's an astonishing find.

WARD:
Find me another one, guys.

NARRATOR:
At Hatshepsut's temple, Dr. Szafranski

is investigating the paintings
that she left on the walls.

The imagery holds clues
about Hatshepsut's life,

and reveals a family power struggle

with her nephew, who was
also her stepson, Thutmose III.

DR. SZAFRANSKI: Here we see
Hatshepsut and behind her,

we have a figure of Thutmose III.

We have two kings.

NARRATOR:
Images etched into these walls

reveal the story of Hatshepsut's
extraordinary rise to power.

She was the first-born of a royal family,

but tradition dictated that only
men could become the pharaoh.

So power was granted
to her infant stepson.

But after seven years
of acting as his aide,

Hatshepsut made
an unprecedented move for power.

She overtook her stepson,

and proclaimed that she was
now the king of Egypt.

DR. SZAFRANSKI (off screen):
We see on the walls of this temple,

there are two kings, but Hatshepsut is
always number one.

NARRATOR: Hatshepsut's move to claim
power was revolutionary.

Now, Dr. Szafranski is
searching for new evidence

to piece her mysterious life together.

In the ruins next
to Hatshepsut's temple,

the team have discovered
a ring of ancient mud bricks.

DR. SZAFRANSKI (off screen):
We're on the top of something,

now we'll go deeper
and see what is inside.

NARRATOR: They think artifacts
could be buried here.

But after a day of digging,
progress comes to a halt.

(conversing in native language)

NARRATOR:
A one-ton block of sandstone is

precariously balanced
on top of the mud bricks.

If the block falls, it could destroy
any treasures buried beneath.

NARRATOR: Dr. Szafranski's team have
no heavy-lifting equipment on site,

so they have to improvise.

WORKERS:
Hey-ah-ho!

NARRATOR:
If they can't move the block,

they won't be able to find out
what's hidden beneath.

WORKERS:
Hey-ah-ho!

(speaking native language)

♪ ♪

NARRATOR: Fifty miles
from Hatshepsut's temple in El Kab,

Yale University professor John Darnell

and his wife,
Egyptologist Dr. Colleen Darnell,

are beginning their season.

They are using digital technology
to record ancient rock inscriptions

to figure out how
hieroglyphic writing began.

PROF. DARNELL: I want to be absolutely
certain that we have beak as it should be,

and that we have this here
crest as it should be.

DR. DARNELL (off screen):
Mm-hmm.

NARRATOR: The pair have spent
over 20 years exploring

the deserts and temples of Egypt,

to interpret these ancient carvings.

(speaks native language)

NARRATOR:
During dig season,

they analyze their findings
for publication, here at their home.

DR. DARNELL: This is about as spectacular
of an expedition house,

a dig house, as you can have
anywhere in the world.

The view of the Nile,
the mud-brick architecture,

it's really a dream come true.

These are about 90 years old, linen,
it's pretty remarkable that it survived,

so it's fun to play archeology
with clothing as well.

I have a 1920s jodhpur and suit set,

and a fun pair of 19-teens knickers.

NARRATOR: Today,
the couple are heading across the Nile,

to investigate a mysterious
set of inscriptions.

PROF. DARNELL: There's just no duplicate
for looking at the inscriptions themselves

on the actual monuments,
within these great architectural settings.

NARRATOR:
Their destination is Karnak Temple.

Its beautiful chapels and decorated
courtyards cover a massive site.

Here many great pharaohs,
including Hatshepsut, left their mark.

But there's a mystery:
Despite being female,

Hatshepsut is often depicted as a man.

DR. DARNELL: So here we see
Hatshepsut and Thutmose III

and they are wearing
identical crowns, broad collars,

starched kilts, so if you were
to approach this wall

without being able to read
the hieroglyphs,

you wouldn't be able to tell who is who.

NARRATOR:
Throughout the site,

Hatshepsut continually represents
herself with male features.

DR. DARNELL: She's wearing a male kilt,
and even the pharaonic beard.

NARRATOR:
But hidden in the hieroglyphic text,

Colleen finds evidence
of her real gender.

DR. DARNELL: Here we have
the female indication

of her gender within the text.

"For my beloved daughter," not son.

PROF. DARNELL: They know
that this is a woman in the role

for which most of the iconography
and most of the terms are masculine.

So the Egyptians are aware of this,
and they work with it.

NARRATOR:
Evidence on a temple wall reveals

Hatshepsut wasn't hiding
her femininity,

she was proving she was a pharaoh.

A fake beard was a way to show
a connection with the god Osiris.

Even male pharaohs wore
an artificial beard.

But other items she wore
were also reserved for men,

like the famous headdress,
the nemes, and the kilt.

But she transformed herself
with these symbols of power

to strengthen her image
across the kingdom.

Hatshepsut dressed not as a man
but as a pharaoh.

Hatshepsut blurred her gender
to be considered equal.

But how equal was society
for women in ancient Egypt?

Near Hatshepsut's temple,
in a tomb site called Dra' Abu el-Naga'...

DR. SUZANNE ONSTINE:
Take one side out of the corridor,

with the human remains on the edge.

NARRATOR:
...Archaeologist Suzanne Onstine,

and her team from
the University of Memphis,

are investigating the roles of women
in ancient Egyptian society.

DR. ONSTINE: One of the things
that I really focused on in my career was:

What were women doing?
What were women's lives like?

Every time I come to work here,
I feel really excited

because there's no better feeling
or job satisfaction really.

NARRATOR: It's Suzanne's
tenth season excavating this tomb,

but it's still packed with the body parts
of men, women, and mummified children.

Torn apart by ancient looters,

the team must piece
the human remains back together.

DR. ONSTINE:
This is skull fragments.

Not everybody feels comfortable
working with the dead,

but this is my job in terms
of bringing light to ancient Egypt

and bringing light to individuals.

WOMAN:
No, that one's spines.

It's a pelvis.

DR. ONSTINE: Right now we're
organizing the human remains.

We have hundreds,
thousands and thousands of bones,

and so keeping track of them is
a bit complicated.

I think...

Jesus, penises or packets?

-JESUS: This is...
-DR. ONSTINE: Probably penis.

-JESUS: Hmm.
-DR. ONSTINE: No?

JESUS: This is probably penis,
this is probably packet.

-DR. ONSTINE: Okay. Too big to be penis?
-JESUS: Yeah.

DR. ONSTINE: There's a lot
of shrinkage in the afterlife.

We found several of these
mummified pieces,

some of them are packets of the organs
that were placed back inside,

occasionally, one is a penis
that has been detached from a body.

Even King Tut lost his penis.

It actually had just sort of fallen down
into the sarcophagus nearby,

but somebody noticed
it was gone one day,

and there was a big situation
looking for King Tut's penis.

NARRATOR: Handling the intimate
body parts is not for the fainthearted,

but combing through the pieces,
Suzanne makes a dramatic discovery.

DR. ONSTINE: She was probably
about 20 years old,

and I'm inclined to think,
nearly a hundred percent,

that she died as a result of childbirth.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR:
At the necropolis in Aswan,

Martina is unearthing
the remains of a buried child

outside the tomb entrance.

DR. BARDOŇOVÁ: You can see quite well,
he's very tiny and very fragile.

If I compare it with my four-years-old
niece, so she's like that, that big.

It's emotional because you
know it's, it's a child.

NARRATOR: Child mortality
was high in ancient Egypt,

but it's rare to find them buried
and preserved at this necropolis.

DR. BARDOŇOVÁ: Whenever you find
some, it's... it's something.

NARRATOR: The team must move the bones
of the child to get access to the tomb.

But as they clear the area,
they find something else

staring up from beneath the sand.

DR. BARDOŇOVÁ:
Ah! Oh my God.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR:
Martina's team have just uncovered

n ancient face mask made of cartonnage.

DR. BARDOŇOVÁ: (off screen):
You can see this beautiful cartonnage.

It's skillfully, how they made the eyes.

NARRATOR: The mask covers
the head of an adult mummy

buried outside the tomb,

but the team must strengthen it with resin

before they can attempt to move it.

This precious cartonnage mask was meant
to help ensure a successful afterlife.

DR. BARDOŇOVÁ: Tutankhamun's head
is gold and this mummy's is cartonnage.

And this one is more beautiful
than Tutankhamun's one.

NARRATOR: The cartonnage should help
the team reveal who these bodies are,

and when they date from.

But strong winds are on the way
and the team must work fast.

DR. BARDOŇOVÁ:
There is a time pressure.

We have to remove the burials.

You have to proceed as quick as possible.

It may happen that during the night
a storm or strong wind comes,

and then everything is lost.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR:
A hundred and twenty miles north...

DR. ONSTINE (off screen):
And just hold it for a minute.

NARRATOR: ...American archaeologist
Suzanne Onstine is piecing together

the remains of women and children.

DR. ONSTINE: This child right here is
really very touching.

His face is still preserved.

NARRATOR: She's searching for clues
about their roles in society,

around the time of Hatshepsut,

and has found dramatic evidence
of one individual's life and death.

DR. ONSTINE (off screen): The vagina is
the hole here, it's still very distended,

so we know that within 24 hours
of giving birth and passing a child

that she died,
because otherwise the vagina

would've shrank back to its original
anatomical position.

So to find real evidence for something
that is sort of commonly spoken about,

that childbirth is a really dangerous time
for women in antiquity,

really kind of unique,
in a very dramatic fashion.

NARRATOR: The mortal dangers
of childbirth are clear,

but Suzanne believes
women still held positions of power.

DR. ONSTINE:
Just looking at the paintings,

we have evidence for them
participating in all levels of society.

The scenes throughout really emphasize
their sort of equal stature.

NARRATOR:
But the female Pharaoh Hatshepsut

wanted to be more than just equal.

In the ancient quarry at Silsila,

while John continues to dig
out the sphinx,

Maria is investigating
the site for evidence

of Hatshepsut's mass building campaign.

Inside a temple at the quarry,

the carved relief scenes
on the walls have been changed.

DR. NILSSON (off screen):
The reliefs that we see on the walls now

are not the original scenes.

If we start to look closer,
in fact what we can see here

are the tell-tale signs underneath

of an original scene
that is no longer here.

We can see a ship transporting an obelisk.

NARRATOR: The ghost images hidden
in the wall reveal

how Hatshepsut may have been
shipping obelisks from Silsila.

Hatshepsut was famous
for her supersized

320 ton obelisk cut
from granite further south,

but lifting it upright would stretch
the limits of ancient engineering.

Builders dragged
the obelisk up a ramp,

and then carefully
dug away the earth beneath,

until the base hit
the foundations in the rock.

Finally, an army of builders used ropes
to pull this monumental obelisk upright.

DR. NILSSON:
It's putting it all together.

It's making a full circle.

We have the beautiful golden sandstone,

we've got the workers active
during the time of Hatshepsut.

I personally love working
with queens and female pharaohs,

so for me, it's wonderful.

NARRATOR: Hatshepsut may have
been shipping obelisks from Silsila,

but what was driving her to build
these colossal monuments?

At the Karnak Temple,

John and Colleen Darnell think the answer
lies on Hatshepsut's giant obelisk itself.

DR. DARNELL: "It's majesty
of this noble god..."

PROF. DARNELL:
"Who has made for her father..."

DR. DARNELL (off screen): She addresses
future generations, and literally tells us

that people who shall come
generation after generation

will know why she did this.

She's doing this for deep purposes
of religious devotion.

But on the flip side,
when you look up at the obelisk,

some of the largest hieroglyphs are
the name of Hatshepsut herself,

so this is a giant
statement of propaganda,

I mean, there's no missing the fact
that this is a projection

on a monumental scale of pharaonic power.

NARRATOR: Hatshepsut built
these monuments to immortalize

her name, not as a woman,

but as one of the greatest
pharaohs of Egypt.

♪ ♪

Beside Hatshepsut's temple,

Dr. Szafranski and the team need to move

a one-ton sandstone block
so they can excavate underneath.

WORKERS: Hey-ah-ho!

NATALIE: Mabruk!
Mabruk, I think we're almost there.

WORKERS: Hey-ah-ho!

NARRATOR:
With the block finally moved,

they can begin to dig
through the sand layers.

NATALIE:
Ah! Finally something.

NARRATOR:
Underneath the temple ruins,

the team have unearthed
ancient fragments of pottery.

MARIUSZ (off screen): I think we have
the first complete pot.

-NATALIE: Look at that.
-MARIUSZ: Yeah, the whole pot.

NATALIE: Wonderful huh?
Isn't that nice?

MARIUSZ: We are very excited
and happy because nobody--

maybe except ancient Egyptian
were seeing this before.

NARRATOR: These small clues
could help Dr. Szafranski

unravel the mysterious events
after Hatshepsut's death.

When she died around the age of 50,
her stepson Thutmose III

finally regained his power.

And higher up the cliff, Dr. Szafranski
sees evidence of his temple.

DR. SZAFRANSKI: It was not possible
to build a bigger temple

than the temple of Hatshepsut,

but it was higher.

NARRATOR: Hatshepsut's immense temple
took up the prime spot

in the mountain
of the Valley of the Kings.

So Thutmose III built
his temple right next to it,

but in an elevated position.

Ancient builders constructed huge columns
on top of a raised platform.

Dr. Szafranski's team have worked out
what this temple would've looked like

and discovered its upper terrace was
11 feet higher than Hatshepsut's...

a political power play by Thutmose
to finally overshadow his stepmother.

DR. SZAFRANSKI: It was better visible,
point number one in the Valley.

He wanted this effect.

NARRATOR: Thutmose had tried to upstage
Hatshepsut, but in a twist of fate

ancient earthquakes and landslides
have left it badly damaged.

It may never look as it once did,
but Dr. Szafranski and his team

are working to restore what remains.

DR. SZAFRANSKI: Today we have restored
temple of Hatshepsut,

but after let's say five, ten years,

we'll have restored temple
of Thutmose III as well.

It's only a matter of time.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR:
In Aswan, Martina and the team

are finishing their excavations
outside the tomb.

DR. BARDOŇOVÁ: Tired?
(speaking native language)

WORKERS: No, no, no.
No, no, not tired.

NARRATOR: They have managed
to move the bones

and delicate cartonnage
into the onsite lab.

From studying the decorative style,
Martina believes these burials dated

to a few hundred years before
the time of Hatshepsut,

in a period called
the Middle Kingdom.

DR. BARDOŇOVÁ: We know that it's
a Middle Kingdom date,

the cartonnage was really well done,
it was high quality work,

and we know that they were,
let's say higher status persons.

NARRATOR: Martina thinks the child
and adult burials are a family connection

to whoever owned the tomb.

But her season must carry on

to unearth the secrets
of who or what is hidden inside.

DR. BARDOŇOVÁ: It's going to be amazing
to see finally how it looks like.

NARRATOR: After a grueling few days,
the team head back to the dig house.

DR. BARDOŇOVÁ:
It's the best part of the day,

to relax, slow down, eat.

The first time I moved
from the Czech Republic, I missed home.

My family I miss very much
from time to time.

But now I'm looking forward.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR:
In the quarry at Silsila...

-WARD: Ahmed!
-AHMED: Yes?

NARRATOR: ...John Ward is
still excavating what could be

the remains of one
of Hatshepsut's sphinxes.

WARD: What I've got is basically
a dressed piece of sandstone,

and I can feel a nice
right angle corner here.

What I'm hoping actually that is,

is the top part of the head here,
which is missing.

One, two, three.

Good. Hold, hold, hold, hold.

WORKERS:
Hold, hold. Up!

WARD: And turn him over.
Turn him over.

Shuay, shuay, shuay.

The head of the sphinx.

So now we have a complete sphinx
as far as I'm concerned.

Both Maria and I do not consider
this a job.

This is life, Silsila is our life.

These guys are our family,
and it's mankind's history.

All started here.

NARRATOR: After a long and hot dig,
John can finally show Maria

the enormity of what they have unearthed.

DR. NILSSON:
Oh, wow!

NARRATOR: The abandoned sphinx statue
is nearly ten foot high.

DR. NILSSON: Wow!
This is just silly.

Why on earth is it still here?

NARRATOR: It's the largest
they've seen at the quarry.

DR. NILSSON: As far as I know,
there's no records whatsoever

of any unfinished sphinx
that is intact like this.

NARRATOR: It's in such good
condition, it's a mystery

why this giant statue was abandoned.

It's possible a small fracture
in the stone put a stop to the work.

But John and Maria still want to find out

where this sphinx
would've been destined to go.

WARD: So we need to now look
at all the sphinxes,

the Sphinx Avenue of Hatshepsut,

Karnak's, find out where
we have one of this size.

You're looking at over five ton there,
if not more.

-It really is.
-DR. NILSSON: Wow.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR: At the magnificent
Karnak Temple,

Hatshepsut began construction
of the Avenue of the Sphinx.

Some statues have been moved, damaged,
or have even disappeared,

but hundreds still remain
across the temple site.

WARD: How do you
want to tackle this?

NARRATOR: John and Maria Ward have come
to Karnak to try and find a match

for the sphinx they have discovered
back at the quarry.

WARD: Our tail goes further along
the back paw, then sweeps round.

These don't look big enough at the front.

NARRATOR: As well as matching the style,
the couple are looking for black specks,

called "inclusions,"
within the sandstone itself.

DR. NILSSON: If we can find those
black inclusions, the little black dots,

then we know that it's from,
most probably...

BOTH:
from the same quarry.

DR. NILSSON:
And from the same period.

WARD: I'm not seeing any.

DR. NILSSON: These, so far,
do not show any such marks.

No, I think we need to explore
a little bit further.

NARRATOR: There's no sign
of a matching sphinx

on the Avenue
outside the temple walls.

But hidden inside the temple,
they find another style.

WARD: They are different, Maria.
They are different.

-That haunch...
-DR. NILSSON: Yeah.

-WARD: Look at the belly cut.
-DR. NILSSON: I would agree.

WARD: And look, look at the front,
see the girth of the neck...

-DR. NILSSON: I would agree.
-WARD: ...coming down.

And that would've, the paws--

DR. NILSSON:
You've got the black inclusions.

WARD (off screen): Black inclusions.
Wow! There we have it!

NARRATOR: Although damaged, the couple is
certain these sphinxes came from Silsila.

WARD:
At Silsila, they haven't been finished.

They're still in their raw state.

They would've been transported to here.

NARRATOR: The evidence suggests
John and Maria's sphinx would've made

a remarkable journey,
carved out at the quarry,

shipped 100 miles down the Nile
and placed at Karnak Temple.

WARD: I'm feeling very proud,
I feel like a proud father.

These are our children,
this is from Silsila.

Everything, bit by bit by bit,
has culminated in this one moment.

Bang. The sphinx.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR:
By Hatshepsut's temple,

Dr. Szafranski and the team
continue their excavation.

NATALIE: Look at that treasure,
it's filled with content.

DR. SZAFRANSKI (off screen):
And the pot looks like New Kingdom.

NARRATOR: They have unearthed ancient
pottery and food buried in the ground.

These were gifts to the gods, offerings
made when the temple was first built.

MARIUSZ: It's a very important
piece in this puzzle.

NARRATOR: Bit by bit,
each of these small finds is helping

to unearth the secrets
of this magnificent site.

For Dr. Szafranski, he has dedicated
his life to reveal the legacy

of Hatshepsut,
the incredible pharaoh queen.

DR. SZAFRANSKI:
It was a heap of stones,

the whole area.

Her name was lost
and her temple was not visible.

After our work, after our restoration,
cleaning, conservation,

her names are visible,
her figures restored.

And her wish was to be worshipped,

to be remembered for millions of years.

It happened, she is, we remember her.

Sometimes I say
I'm hopelessly devoted to her.

NARRATOR: Hatshepsut was a leader,
a politician, and a revolutionary

the likes of which the world
had never seen.

Against all odds, Hatshepsut
rose to become a pharaoh,

and through her magnificent temple,
she is remembered once again.

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