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NARRATOR: Egypt,
the richest source

of archaeological
treasures on the planet.

AHMED: Oh, wow! Look at that!

NARRATOR: Hidden beneath
this desert landscape

lie the secrets of this
ancient civilization.

[speaking in native language].

ALEJANDRO: I have never
seen something like this.

NARRATOR: Now, for a full
season of excavations,

our cameras have been given
unprecedented access

to follow teams on the
frontline of archaeology.

MYRIAM: This is the
most critical moment.

NARRATOR: Revealing
buried treasures.

SALIMA: Oh!

AHMED: We were lucky today.

NOZOMU: Wow! Lots of mummies!

KATHLEEN: The smell is horrible!

NARRATOR: And making
discoveries that could
rewrite ancient history.

JOHN: We'’ve never had
the proof until now.

COLLEEN: This is
where it all started.

ALEJANDRO: My goodness,
I never expected this.

NARRATOR: This time
we unlock the secrets of

Tutankhamun'’s golden treasures.

NARRATOR: Uncovering
the mysteries buried with

the boy king, almost

three-and-a-half-thousand
years ago.

ALEJANDRO:
Definitely, we have something.

NARRATOR: Alejandro searches for the tombs belonging to the

rulers of the south,

who would have served
the great Pharaohs.

ALEJANDRO: It'’s amazing.

NARRATOR: John and Maria
head into the desert,

hunting for the lost
quarries of Tutankhamun.

JOHN: My heart
is pumping, yeah!

It'’s pumping.

NARRATOR: And Nozomu pushes
excavation to the limit to

uncover the lost tombs
of Tutankhamun'’s elite.

NOZOMU: It'’s really
dangerous inside.

[theme music plays].

NARRATOR: Egypt.

Birthplace of
one of the most enigmatic
civilizations in history.

The pyramid tombs,
and the Valley of the Kings.

The final resting places
of powerful Pharaohs.

Of the possible 63
tombs in the valley,

there is one that
outshines the rest,

and has captured the
world'’s imagination.

The tomb of Tutankhamun.

The boy king was just
18 years old when he died,

but his priceless golden
treasures have made him the

most famous pharaoh
of all time.

His funerary riches have been
displayed all over the world,

but now they are all
coming back to Egypt.

Cairo, in the shadows
of the great pyramids.

Engineers are building
a $1 billion museum

and research facility.

The Grand Egyptian Museum
will house all Tutankhamun'’s

5,000 treasures
in one place,

for the first
time in 100 years.

One of the
centerpieces of the museum,

will be Tutankhamun'’s
golden coffin.

Ahmed Abdrabou is
leading the research
process to get it ready.

NARRATOR: The coffin was one
of many priceless treasures

found in Tutankhamun'’s tomb.

When Howard Carter'’s team
opened the tomb
in November 1922,

they discovered a wealth of
treasures and gifts the king

would need in the afterlife.

Six disassembled
golden chariots,

his throne and
provisions of food and wine.

Concealed behind a false
wall was a stone sarcophagus

protecting a
gold-plated coffin.

Inside it, two more coffins,

the innermost made of solid gold and covered in gemstones.

And inside that, the
mummy of Tutankhamun,

wearing a magnificent
death mask,

the most famous find
in all of Egypt.

Ahmed needs to discover how
the ancient artisans built

Tutankhamun'’s golden coffin.

The inside is made of wood,

but the outside is covered with a thin layer of precious gold.

NARRATOR: Under the lens,

Ahmed discovers
an extraordinary secret.

NARRATOR: The ancient
artisans could craft gold
as thin as shrink wrap,

but to get
a flawless finish,

they could not apply
the gold directly onto

the uneven chiseled wood.

Ahmed investigates closer
and finds a mystery layer

between the gold and the wood.

NARRATOR: Ahmed finds a
3,300-year-old secret,

known only to the top craftsmen closest to the King.

NARRATOR: The ancient
craftsmen used linen bandages

to smooth out the jagged
wood and create a perfect

finish for the thin gold.

Almost three and a half
thousand years later,

we are still solving the
mysteries of Tutankhamun.

Ahmed is on the
hunt for more clues.

425 miles south of
Cairo is the ancient

stronghold of Aswan.

It'’s here Tutankhamun
would have positioned
his most trusted governors

to defend the
southern border between

Egypt and gold rich Nubia.

[speaking in native language].

NARRATOR: Professor
Alejandro Jimenez-Serrano...

[speaking Spanish].

NARRATOR: ...is back
for his 12th season,

at the ancient site
of Qubbet El-Hawa,

in search of the
elite that once ruled here.

ALEJANDRO: What we
have is the tombs of

the highest officials
of the province.

Not only the officials,

but also their family
and their assistants.

NARRATOR: For 16
years of his career,

Alejandro has been studying
the tombs of the ruling

families of the south.

They would have served
the powerful Pharaohs,

like Tutankhamun.

In 2017, he found the
tomb of the brother
of Sarenput II,

a powerful governor of Aswan.

Now, Alejandro is back,

in search of new evidence
about this powerful clan.

[speaking Spanish].

ALEJANDRO: It seems that
we have something interesting.

Let'’s go.

NARRATOR: This could
be the discovery he
has been waiting for.

ALEJANDRO: It is exciting.

NARRATOR:
40 miles north of Aswan,

sit the sandstone quarries
of Gebel El-Silsila,

used by the great pharaohs.

The enormous temples
of Luxor and Karnak were

forged from rock
quarried there.

JOHN: Skol!
GROUP: Skol!

NARRATOR: John Ward and
Dr Maria Nilsson have been

excavating together
here for eight years.

Their home is a
houseboat on the Nile.

JOHN: Nils, what
about you, mate?

NARRATOR: They are working
with a team of archaeologists

to investigate the secrets of the ancient Egyptian quarries.

This year, John and Maria,

with their fittingly
named dog, Carter,

want to solve an
ancient mystery:

Was Tutankhamun also one
of the powerful pharaohs

who used these quarries?

JOHN: There'’s always a delay.

NARRATOR: Today, they
need to get to a remote spot

in the vast Egyptian
desert with their workforce,

but their morning commute
across the River Nile is

eating into precious
sunlight hours.

MARIA: 28 minutes
late already.

Every minute that we
stand here waiting is a

lost minute on site.

NARRATOR: Workers
finally on shore,

the hunt for Tutankhamun'’s
lost quarry begins.

JOHN: Another day in paradise.

Sun, sand.

MARIA: Dirt.
JOHN: Dirt. Stone.

Boiled eggs and cucumber.

NARRATOR: Their journey
by road ends here.

To reach their destination,

they will have to carry
their equipment by hand,

in 100 degree heat,

and across half a mile
of steep, rocky hills.

JOHN: Okay then guys,
are you ready?

MAN: Yeah.
JOHN: Yalla Bina.
MAN: Yalla Bina.

NARRATOR: Their late arrival means John and Maria will have

to split up to cover
the massive site
before it gets dark.

John is going
to look for evidence
of quarry workers'’ homes.

MARIA: Ready?

NARRATOR: While Maria hunts for clues that might date this

site to Tutankhamun'’s reign.

MARIA: I think the game
of today is to establish

that this is from
the time of Tutankhamun.

JOHN: Come on then, guys.

NARRATOR: John heads
straight for an ancient

settlement maybe once
used by a quarry workforce.

If he can find distinctive
pottery with the tell-tale

markings, it could
help him date the site.

JOHN: Look at the amount
of pottery on the floor.

TRISH: This is where
we should excavate.

MARIA: Where'’s the
safest route down?

NARRATOR: While Maria
starts her hunt for clues at

a quarry face that has
been untouched for millennia.

40 miles south of
Gebel El-Silsila, in Aswan,

workers excavating close to Governor Sarenput II'’s tomb,

find ancient chisel marks.

ALEJANDRO: Here there is
something that is quite strange,

because we have a type of
carving and this is smoother.

So this early we have no idea
what we are going to find.

Hey, hey, hey, look!

Sand is going down,

probably indicating
that here we have a hole.

I'’ve seen this
only when we have a
funerary chamber there.

NARRATOR: It could be a tomb.

But is there any treasure buried beneath the golden sand?

NARRATOR: Alejandro and his
team have centuries of rubble

to dig through before they
can uncover what is hiding

in this corner
of Qubbet El-Hawa.

ALEJANDRO: We can
see only a smooth carving

of 10 centimeters and
now we have 30 centimeters.

NARRATOR: If it'’s a tomb,
it could belong to a leading

member of one of Egypt'’s
most influential families.

ALEJANDRO: Ah, look!
Yeah, ha-ha!

Look at that, it probably
it would be a chamber.

We still have much
material to remove,

but sure we have
the burial chamber.

NARRATOR: Just 55 yards
away lies the tomb of the
head of a powerful family,

Sarenput II,
the Governor of Aswan.

Is it possible that the
tomb Alejandro is unearthing

nearby, could belong to
someone as prominent?

ALEJANDRO: This tomb shows
the grandeur of the governors,

they wanted to show their power.

NARRATOR: Sarenput II was a
rich and influential leader.

He was an important
Chief from Aswan,

part of a ruling class
of commanding
and wealthy families.

From an island on the Nile,

they controlled the
gateway to Africa and

guarded important
trade routes along
the Nile into Egypt.

African traders brought in luxury goods for the pharaohs,

such as ebony,

leopard skins
and ostrich eggs.

But most importantly of all,

they brought in gold from
Nubia that filled the tombs

of the mighty pharaohs,
including Tutankhamun.

[speaking in native language].

NARRATOR: Just yards away from Sarenput II'’s burial chamber...

ALEJANDRO: OK.
NARRATOR: Alejandro'’s team

excavates a tiny hole into
their ancient tomb.

ALEJANDRO: Here we
have some termites.

This is good evidence
because they are always

looking for the coffins.

These are the great moments.

[grunts]

NARRATOR: Finally, this
tomb can give up its secrets.

ALEJANDRO: It'’s amazing.

Some bandages, some bones.

We have the closing
slab over there.

It'’s very well made, it'’s huge.

NARRATOR: Alejandro can
see just the top of the tomb.

It will take his team
days to excavate and

to discover its treasures.

400 miles north in Saqqara.

Tutankhamun expert,
Professor Nozomu Kawai,

is back for his third season, excavating the Saqqara plateau.

NOZOMU: We just keep digging.

NARRATOR: He is looking
for the tombs of the elite,

who would have
served Tutankhamun.

An untouched tomb
in this area could hold

priceless golden treasure.

NOZOMU: This is at the center of
the administration and economy,

but the tombs of the
high officials who are
running the country,

has been missing.

NARRATOR: Nozomu
found the entrance to
what he hopes is a tomb.

This year he intends to
go further and enter it.

NOZOMU: The entrance,
it'’s covered with bricks.

NARRATOR: At the
end of the tunnel,

Nozumu finds a mud
brick wall and a stela.

An ancient inscribed stone,
often commemorating the dead.

It'’s a clue to what could
lie beyond the brick wall.

NOZOMU: If we
excavate underneath,

we will probably
find doorways.

So, actually, the
entrance is pretty much

covered with the sand
and rubble at this moment.

NARRATOR: It'’s a promising
sign Nozomu is on the verge

of a huge discovery.

He knows this whole
area houses burial
chambers of the elite.

And a few hundred yards
away, is a clue from one of

Tutankhamun'’s
trusted servants.

Archaeologists in 1996,

found a rocky ridge
buried under the desert sand.

Inside it, they
uncovered a tomb.

When they removed the sand
from the entrance chamber,

they revealed a
stunning image on the wall.

A young King Tutankhamun,

sitting on
the lap of a woman.

They identified her as Maia,

a nurse who raised
the boy king and

this was her tomb.

How many more of his closest
allies lie undiscovered

inside the ridge?

Nozomu'’s team carefully
remove the stela.

NOZOMU: This is the first
find of the project.

We are really excited.

NARRATOR: In the
field research tent,

Nozomu gets a closer look.

The stela shows three gods,

Sokar, Thoth and Anubis.

They are gods sometimes associated with the underworld.

And he'’s seen them
somewhere before.

On the back of the famous
death mask of Tutankhamun,

Sokar and Anubis are
engraved in the hieroglyphs.

Could this be another clue
that behind the brick wall at

the end of the
tunnel, lies a tomb?

375 miles south in the
quarries of Gebel El-Silsila,

John and Maria are
searching for evidence of

the lost quarry of Tutankhamun.

JOHN: Go into the fissure,
go along it,

leave the big stone in situ.

NARRATOR: But to confirm
it is Tutankhamun'’s quarry,

they need to date it,

and one way is to look
for his distinctive style

of blue pottery.

JOHN: I need that to give
me a definite chronology,

to put this squarely within
Tutankhamun'’s period.

NARRATOR: Maria searches
for clues at a quarry face

that has been abandoned
for centuries.

MARIA: Sometimes an
inscription can just pop out,

because the light is perfect.

NARRATOR: She works
with fellow archaeologist,

Dr. Nils Billing.

MARIA: We got an
ankh right into it.

NILS: Yeah. Where?

NARRATOR: Ankh, means
'’Life'’ in ancient Egyptian,

and the sound is the middle
part of Tut-ankh-amun'’s name.

Maria and Nils need to find
Tutankhamun'’s complete name,

which they expect to be
displayed on a royal seal,

known as a cartouche.

If it exists here, it'’s
proof this quarry was once

officially used
by the boy king.

MARIA: Okay, so we know
what level to search for,

so let'’s just scout the area.

NILS: Yo.

NARRATOR: If they find it,
it could mean that the young

Tutankhamun was quarrying
here for massive
building projects,

previously unknown
to archaeologists.

MARIA: Nils, over here!
We got something.

NARRATOR: Maria continues
her hunt for evidence
this ancient quarry,

hidden away in the deserts
of the south of Egypt,

was once used by Tutankhamun.

She searches for a cartouche,

used by Pharaohs to
mark their property.

MARIA: Yes!

NARRATOR: A cartouche
is not just a royal name

written in hieroglyphs.

Ancient Egyptians thought
they had magical powers.

In 1922, Howard Carter
found a golden shrine
in Tutankhamun'’s tomb

that contained vessels
of mummified organs.

On the inside chest, he
discovered two cartouches,

believed to offer powerful
protection from evil spirits.

Seven hieroglyphs spell
out Tutankhamun'’s name.

Three more spell:
Ruler of Thebes.

On the second cartouche:

the sun disk and
the scarab beetle,

both symbols of
immortality and rebirth.

These powerful signs
helped the pharaoh'’s spirit

and soul find his
body and resurrect him.

At the quarry face,
Nils decodes the hieroglyphs.

NILS: We have
the name of Tutankhamun.

That is a loaf of bread,

it has the
phonetic value '’T'’.

The bird is '’UH'’, then '’ANKH'’.

Amun you can read here.

A feather is the sign for '’A'’.

And this sign, which is
the sign of a monument,

and that is spelled
out '’MEN'’, '’A-MEN'’.

Tut-ankh-amun.

NARRATOR: But something
catches his eye.

NILS: This waterline is an '’N'’,

but actually they'’ve
added another '’N'’ here,

which is unusual, and
then you would have expected

another '’T'’ up here
to fulfill the word,

to make the word
complete, '’Tut'’.

NARRATOR: Have the team
found Tutankhamun'’s name...

or have they found
ancient graffiti?

375 miles north in Saqqara.

Nozomu hunts for the
tombs of Tutankhahun'’s

inner circle of advisors.

His team is excavating what
Nozomu hopes is a tomb from

the time of Tutankhamun.

If he is right, it will be
the discovery of his career.

And just yards away,
outside the entrance,

they have a
promising discovery.

NOZOMU: We found three
mummies this morning.

NARRATOR: The mummies
may reveal vital clues
about the possible tomb.

So Nozomu works
with mummy expert,

Professor Salima Ikram,
to decode what they could be.

SALIMA: And the first thing
to look at is this mummy.

It'’s really very lovely.

It'’s not oriented in the
same way as the other ones.

NARRATOR: At this site,
most of the mummies heads

point to the south.

This mummy'’s head,
points to the north.

SALIMA: Oh!

And now we know why,
because if you see here,

you'’ve got this band,

this tape with these two
red strips on either side,

and this is very typical
of the Coptic period.

NARRATOR: The Coptic period is Egypt'’s era of Christianity,

one-and-a-half-thousand years after the reign of Tutankhamun.

But Nozomu needs to know
if all the mummies here

are from this later period.

The clues may be in how
the mummies are prepared.

Long before the
Pharaohs of Egypt,

mummies happened naturally
when dead bodies dried up in

the hot Egyptian desert.

The early Egyptian priests
then started to deliberately

preserve the bodies of
the dead pharaohs for the

afterlife, by covering them
with a mixture of salts and

removing their brains,

guts and other
internal organs.

Mummification grew in sophistication over centuries,

as priests stuffed the
nose with seeds and replaced

the eyes with onions to
make them even more lifelike.

But after the Romans
invaded Egypt in 30 BC,

more importance was placed
on the appearance of coffins.

As Christianity
spread across Egypt,

mummification
became more basic.

Salima has a quick
way to date this mummy.

If the remains are salty,

it means it could be an
early Egyptian style burial,

when a lot of salt was
used for preservation.

SALIMA: Desiccation
was minimal,

but it'’s hard to
tell, because the...

the sand a bit salty.

NOZOMU: Yes.

SALIMA: But, not
enough for it...

NOZOMU: Yeah, yeah,
we have crystals.

SALIMA: To precipitate but,
it wasn'’t very salted.

NARRATOR: The lack of
salt could mean this mummy
is from the Coptic period,

when their simple
mummification process did not

use as much salt.

SALIMA: You also in
Egypt and at Saqqara,

have a lot
of reuse of tombs,

but they don'’t
throw people out,

because you might
get a curse upon you.

NARRATOR: This mummy shows
that the Saqqara necropolis

was used all the way from
the time of King Tutankhamun,

right up until
the Coptic period.

But Nozomu'’s potential tomb
appears to be unopened and

there is a chance
the original occupant,

possibly from
Tutankhamun'’s reign,

is still there.

Getting inside however
is a huge challenge.

NARRATOR: The ceiling is
incredibly fragile and the

team worry it will collapse.

NOZOMU: If the humidity raises
it'’s not good for the structure.

NARRATOR: If they put
one foot out of place,

the tunnel might
collapse on their heads.

NARRATOR: In the lab of
the new Grand Egyptian
Museum in Cairo,

an army of specialists
are working around the clock

to investigate and preserve
Tutankhamun'’s treasures.

All 5,398 are set
to go on display,

including a
3,300 year old chair,

once used by the Boy King.

It'’s down to Ahmed El Sheikha to restore it,

ready for museum visitors.

NARRATOR: But all
Tutankhamun'’s treasures were

almost lost forever.

When Howard Carter
discovered the tomb,

100 years ago,

he found it had been
broken into long before,

but why did those
first tomb raiders leave

so much treasure behind?

The robbers may have been
the tomb builders themselves,

breaking in soon after
sealing the tomb.

They stole as much
as they could carry.

The theft was discovered
and the shaft was filled

with limestone chippings.

But a second gang of
robbers dug through the

rubble and carried
away more of the riches.

Then a flash flood dumped
a thick layer of rocks over

Tutankhamun'’s tomb,

protecting it
for nearly three and
a half thousand years.

In the lab, Ahmed is
trying to save a chair,

once sat in by Tutankhamun
and he'’s discovered it'’s

made from a
very fragile material.

NARRATOR: After Howard Carter'’s team excavated these artifacts,

they hoped to prevent decay,

by coating them
with paraffin wax.

NARRATOR: 100 years on,

the once soft wax has
hardened and the papyrus

is starting to snap.

Tutankhamun'’s ancient chair
could break at any moment.

Ahmed must act quickly to
save this priceless artifact,

but he faces a problem.

NARRATOR: The wax has
made the papyrus brittle.

To save the chair,

Ahmed must carefully remove
the wax with a scalpel,

but time is not on his side.

NARRATOR: It'’s a
painstaking task,

but without the museums
army of specialists,

these artifacts would
eventually disintegrate,

and the treasures of
Tutankhamun would be lost

again and this time, forever.

400 miles south in
Gebel El-Silsila.

NILS: This was
not done in haste.

MARIA: No.

NARRATOR: Maria and Nils
think they have found

Tutankhamun'’s name
carved into the quarry face.

MARIA: I find it intriguing.

NARRATOR: But the spelling
mistake has thrown the find

into doubt.

MARIA: If Nils can confirm,
then it is like a claim that

says that this quarry was used
during the time of Tutankhamun.

NILS: It'’s made in the size that
it actually should be seen.

This is official.

NARRATOR: Nils and Maria are
now convinced Tutankhamun'’s

name was inscribed
here officially.

It is vital evidence
he used the quarry.

JOHN: Just take this
little bit here and just give

a sweep and see what we got.

NARRATOR:
John looks for flashes of
distinctive blue pottery,

pottery made in
Tutankhamun'’s reign.

JOHN: Start in this area here.

NARRATOR: With this,
he hopes to find a second way

to date the site and prove
this settlement was used by

Tutankhamun'’s quarry workers.

JOHN: This is better, the
smaller fragments is exactly

what I'’m after.

Heavy foot traffic within
the encampment itself,

showing that people
were coming and going.

NARRATOR: John has found
small bits of broken pottery,

suggesting people
once lived here,

but not the tell-tale
Tutankhamun blue pottery.

MARIA: Where?
Okay, hold on, follow, go, go!

NARRATOR: But they do
find something astonishing.

JOHN: My heart
is pumping yeah!

It'’s pumping.

NARRATOR: A rare amulet
shaped like a scarab beetle.

MARIA: Now, the reason
why we are excited about

scarabs is of course
that if you turn them and
we got an imprint on them,

then that can
give us a firm date.

NARRATOR: The scarab
beetle represented rebirth,

so the ancient Egyptians
made scarab shaped
amulets as lucky charms.

They were made from stone,
metal or even precious gems.

JOHN: This is what
it'’s all about.

NARRATOR: Scarabs were often
inscribed with a depiction

or name of a God.

The identity of the
god could help date it.

JOHN: Oh. Are you ready?

I'’m gonna
let you see it first.

MARIA: Okay, it'’s got a God.

JOHN: Okay. I gotta see it now!

Yeah! Oh wow!

NARRATOR: Can the
scarab help prove this
is Tutankhamun'’s quarry?

NARRATOR: John and Maria
try to decode the engraving
on the ancient scarab.

JOHN: We got a bit of glyph.
Bit of glyph at the top.

Oh.

NARRATOR: They hope it can
help them prove Tutankhamun'’s

quarry workers
once lived here.

MARIA: Probably Horus,
so it lies quite nicely in

the time frame of Tutankhamun.

Look above us.

Horus comes
flying as we find it.

NARRATOR: An engraving
of an ancient Egyptian god,

Horus, could place the scarab in Tutankhamun'’s reign.

His rule brought with it
religious transformation.

Tutankhamun'’s father, the
pharaoh Akhenaten abandoned

Egypt'’s old gods and decreed
the worship of just one god,

the sun god.

But at the age of nine,
Tutankhamun became one of the

youngest pharaohs ever.

He abolished the worship
of a single sun god and

reinstated all the old
Egyptian gods, like Horus,

under the rule of
their king god Amun.

Maria and John'’s discovery
of the sky god Horus here

is a clue the site dates
to Tutankhamun'’s time.

MARIA: It is a great find.

Can it get any better?

NARRATOR: But Maria and John
need absolute proof this is a

Tutankhamun site
and continue their search
for the tell-tale clue,

Tutankhamun'’s distinctive
style of blue pottery.

40 miles south in Aswan,

Alejandro is back on site.

He'’s hoping to discover
more about the family of

Governor Sarenput II.

Alejandro'’s team has now
excavated the discovered tomb

and he can investigate
it properly.

The craftsmanship and
location of the rock cut tomb

suggests this is the burial
chamber of the elite.

But there is no mummy.

However, there are
clues to who could have

been buried inside.

ALEJANDRO: These are
the only remains that we found.

NARRATOR: The team finds fragments at the bottom of the

tomb that may hold the key.

These wooden shards are
what'’s left of a coffin,

but Alejandro discovers
unusual markings on them.

ALEJANDRO: I have
just noticed the presence
of a couple of eyes.

Here we have one
eye and another eye.

NARRATOR: These eyes
are '’wedjat'’ eyes,

meant to let the dead see
outside the coffin and they

normally match exactly
the size of the body inside.

The small size and shape of
the eyes tells Alejandro who

possibly occupied the tomb.

ALEJANDRO: This is a
coffin of a child.

Very, very young,
I would say, almost a baby.

NARRATOR: With no more
artifacts and without an

inscription to decipher,
Alejandro will never know the

name of the tomb'’s owner,

but he can still
decode more clues.

ALEJANDRO: Just from
the colors and the type of wood,

this coffin was prepared
for a member of the elite.

NARRATOR: Alejandro
is closer to finding
more of this powerful family.

His search for
the governing rulers of
Aswan and the Pharaohs'’

most trusted
subjects continues.

ALEJANDRO: We do not
have here Tutankhamun but we

have some information
which is in the end

what we are looking for.

NARRATOR: 400 miles north.

In the labs of the
Grand Egyptian Museum.

[speaking in native language].

NARRATOR: Ahmed is working
on one of Tutankhamun'’s
greatest treasures,

a golden
processional chariot.

But like many of
Tutankhamun'’s treasures
found by Howard Carter,

it has also been
preserved in wax.

Ahmed needs to
remove all the wax,

but it has hardened
to a brittle and
precarious condition.

The delicate gold
layer beneath makes
this a precarious task.

NARRATOR: The task falls
to conservation expert Ahmed.

He must make a special
cleaning gel using ethanol

acetate and white spirit.

The slightest error
in the solution risks

irreparable damage
to the precious chariot.

NARRATOR: What should
look like a thick gel,

has come out as a
watery solution,

which could loosen
more than just the wax.

NARRATOR: Ahmed cannot
risk damaging the chariot.

All hopes are on
the second batch.

NARRATOR: It'’s a
nerve-jangling wait.

If Ahmed'’s got the mix wrong,

it could strip the gold
from Tutankhamun'’s chariot.

NARRATOR: After ten
anxious minutes,

it'’s the moment
of truth for Ahmed.

Has the cleaning solution
worked or has it caused

irreparable damage to
the priceless chariot?

NARRATOR: Now,
with a working solution,

Ahmed and the team will be able to restore the chariot to

sit proudly alongside
Tutankhamun'’s
other treasures...

Almost 400 miles
south in Gebel El-Silsila.

John and Maria search for
blue decorated pottery from

Tutankhamun'’s reign.

[speaking in native language].

[exclaims]

NARRATOR: One of
the workers spots a flash
of blue in the golden sand.

JOHN: You are
about to make me a very,
very happy man, ooh.

Absolutely beautiful!

Both me and Maria
have always said that this
is the quarries of Tutankhamun,

but we'’ve never had
the proof, until now.

NARRATOR: Maria takes a look
to check for certain if it is

from the time of Tutankhamun.

MARIA: I would place these
in the Tutankhamun period.

Blue signify royalty,
the gods as well.

Blue is a very rare color
for them to find and work with.

They do indicate that our
worker'’s village is from the

time of Tutankhamun.

JOHN: Couldn'’t have wished
for a better piece of evidence.

Excellent.

NARRATOR: John and Maria
have the evidence they need.

They think they can prove this is the quarry of Tutankhamun.

375 miles north in Saqqara.

It'’s Nozomu'’s life'’s work
to prove Tutankhamun'’s

inner circle of elite
are buried here.

After three weeks he'’s
discovered the entrance

to a tomb and now
it'’s the moment of truth.

NARRATOR: If the ceiling
collapses, it could be fatal.

But to see what'’s in there,
someone will have to crawl

down the long corridor
inside the tomb.

NARRATOR: Despite
the fragile roof and
the danger of collapse,

one of Nozomu'’s team crawls
deeper into the tomb.

The risk is worth it.

Archaeological treasures
are everywhere he looks.

NARRATOR: The team need to
reinforce the ceiling before

they can all venture
inside and truly examine
what they have found.

NARRATOR: Nozomu'’s team will be back to uncover more of the

plateau'’s secrets next year
and see if the elite of

Tutankhamun are hidden below.

In the meantime, Nozomu must
brick up the entrance to

protect the treasures inside.

NOZOMU: I'’m gonna
dedicate to excavate
here the rest of my life.

You know, this is just
the beginning, you know.

NARRATOR: Almost three-and-a-half-thousand years

after his death and 100 years
after his rediscovery,

Tutankhamun continues
to beguile and fascinate.

Inspiring archaeologists
from all over the
world to come to Egypt

for the chance to add their
names to history and find

their own lost treasures.

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