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[narrator] Abydos,

Huge temples tower Over an ancient necropolis

In the remote desert.

Under the sand here lie some Of the oldest tombs in egypt.

[stephen] This is extraordinary.

Obviously, a tomb On a monumental scale.

[narrator] Buried 5,000 years ago,

They conceal The hidden secrets

Of the first pharaohs.

[ayman] All the egyptian Civilization start from here,

From abydos.

[narrator] Abydos is the epicenter

Of a death cult That inspires

Egypt's Strangest superstructure.

[stephen] This subterranean area

Is built of These immense blocks,

And there's really nothing Quite like it.

[narrator] How does This massive sunken monument

Help egypt's greatest Pharaohs rise to power?

Now, investigators use High definition drone imaging

To investigate these Extraordinary ancient ruins.

[stephen] There are these Immense mounds here

That are clearly evidence Of a lot of ancient activity.

Something is out there.

[narrator] To reveal the secrets

Of this revolutionary city Of the dead,

We digitally reconstruct Its lavish temples.

We dive deep To discover ancient remains.

And decode cryptic symbols Hidden under the sand.

We rebuild the mysterious Relics of an ancient cult.

And unearth traces Of the first

And greatest kings To ever rule ancient egypt.

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[narrator] Abydos, southern egypt,

The remains Of two colossal temples

Rise up Out of the desert landscape.

Miles from egypt's Ancient capital, thebes.

They are built By two great rulers,

Seti I and his son, Ramesses the great,

The most powerful kings Egypt has ever known.

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[stephen] Seti I And ramesses the great

Built on a scale That was almost unrivaled.

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[narrator] Over 1,000 years

After the giza pyramids Are built,

Seti, The great warrior king,

Constructs a magnificent Temple here.

Huge, lavishly Decorated pylons

Lead into vast halls

Filled with ornate columns.

Beyond this ancient Megastructure,

He builds a mysterious Subterranean labyrinth.

Alongside, his son, Ramesses ii,

Known as egypt's Greatest builder,

Constructs his own Lavish temple.

Why do these two Legendary pharaohs

Build spectacular monuments So far from their power base?

Stephen harvey Has been investigating

The mysteries of abydos For over 30 years.

He believes answers Lie in the function

Of these monuments More than 3,000 years ago.

Stephen hunts for clues In seti's colossal temple.

[stephen] What really strikes Anyone who enters this room

Is this enormous stone ledge

With its overhang Covered with inscriptions.

And we can see when we look At the wall

That this is a large boat.

And there's even A little figure

Of the king steering here.

But it's not Being shown on water,

It's being shown On top of carrying poles.

[narrator] Stephen believes These boats

Are not meant for sailing.

They were models of boats That contain

Small statues of the gods.

[narrator] The boats once sit

On top of the ledge In this room.

Priests carry them Out of the temple

In a sacred ceremony.

Where does their ritual Procession lead?

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[narrator] A sloping tunnel At the back

Of the building Catches stephen's eye.

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This is an ascending Corridor with staircase

And it's leading right Out this way

At the rear of the temple.

So, the doorway here Frames something special.

Something is out there.

[narrator] Looking out Of the temple today,

The desert unfolds for miles.

But stephen thinks This ancient procession

Has a destination Hidden in the sands.

It could explain Why seti and ramesses

Build their temples here.

Stephen launches a

Drone-mounted high-definition Camera

To investigate The layout of the whole site.

I can see on either side,

There are ancient buildings,

Temple, Tomb constructions,

And nothing In the middle at all,

Literally leading us toward Something of great importance.

And we can tell then That we have to follow

The path this way.

[narrator] Almost a mile Into the desert,

Strange sandy dunes Rear all around.

We're in A completely flat area here

And yet there are these Immense mounds here

That are clearly evidence Of a lot of ancient activity.

It's just what everything Has been leading to

Up to this point.

[narrator] Hidden Beneath the sand here,

Archeologists discovered Ten massive structures.

A sprawling complex Of burial chambers.

Inside the largest one, A mummified arm,

Wearing four elaborate

And richly Decorated bracelets,

Sure signs Of great wealth and status.

Surrounding The central crypt

Are hundreds Of smaller graves.

Each contains a skeleton.

These tombs lie at the end Of the processional road.

What can they reveal About abydos?

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[stephen] This is truly Extraordinary.

It's an immense hole In the ground,

A tomb that is on a truly Monumental scale.

[narrator] Stephen investigates

One of the ten giant crypts.

[stephen] I'm seeing here Something very telling.

This is a large Burial chamber,

A structure built Into the earth

And reinforced with simple Mud bricks like these.

It's built of early materials.

[narrator] The mud brick chamber

Is constructed Long before the

Rock-cut tombs of ramesses And seti's era,

And even before The stone-built tombs

Of the pyramid age.

This predates all of that.

It's something From the beginning

Of egyptian civilization.

[narrator] Stephen thinks The smaller graves

That surround The central chamber

Could pinpoint to more Precise date

And reveal the truth About abydos.

[stephen] They're all built At the same level

And they were all roofed Over at the same time.

[narrator] The multiple Graves are evidence

Of a mass burial.

[stephen] They were Probably human sacrifices,

Killed and put in the tombs At the same moment.

[narrator] Human sacrifice Is extremely rare

In ancient egypt.

It helps pinpoint the date.

[stephen] We know That this is

A very early practice In egypt,

Limited to the first And the second dynasties.

This is the burial of one Of egypt's first pharaohs.

[narrator] When archeologists Excavate this tomb,

They discover An inscribed ivory plaque.

It reveals the owner.

King den Of the first dynasty.

He reigns around 2970 bc,

Over 1,500 years Before seti I.

There was once an immense Royal cemetery here,

A royal necropolis For egypt's first pharaohs.

[narrator] King den is not The only pharaoh buried here.

Archeologists Have identified the occupants

Of almost All of the ten crypts,

Including the tomb With the mummified arm.

He is king djer Who rules around 3,000 bc.

It was really these Early royal tombs

Which attracted the interest Of later pharaohs,

Seti and ramesses.

[narrator] Abydos' processional road

Connects ramesses and seti's Temples with the tombs

Of the first dynasty Pharaohs.

[stephen] They built their Temples directly aligned

And in relation to it Because this is where

It all started and they Traced their own lineage

Directly back to these First kings of egypt.

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[narrator] Millions of years ago,

A river flows Through abydos' sands,

It carves out A canyon that leads

Into the high desert Before running dry.

Egypt's first kings See the dried riverbed

As the entrance To the underworld

And build their tombs At the mouth of the canyon.

Abydos Becomes a holy landscape

That attracts pharaohs And paupers alike.

Worshippers build hundreds Of chapels

Along the path Of the riverbed.

The path Becomes a sacred route

Where priests Carry statues of gods

In an annual procession From the temples

To the first tombs.

But there are clues That someone else

Could lie At the center of worship

In the temples of seti And ramesses.

A sacred figure Even more powerful

Than the first kings.

Who lies at the center Of the abydos cult?

And how do they grow To become

One of the greatest cult Icons of the ancient world?

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[narrator] At the ancient Necropolis of abydos

Are the tombs of the very First pharaohs of egypt.

They formed part Of a sacred landscape

That inspires seti I And his son

Ramesses the great To construct massive temples.

But could a discovery In the largest tomb

Built here reveal A mysterious cult

At the core of their Interest in abydos?

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[narrator] As archeologists Examine king djer's tomb,

They uncover Something perplexing.

Along one side of the vault Is a staircase

Added long After djer's death.

It leads to a black Basalt stone sarcophagus

Carved with a figure Lying on a bed

Holding a flail and crook, Ancient symbols of power.

And, perched on top,

A bird of prey Watches over the figure.

Inscriptions reveal The sculpture is installed

Over 1,000 years After the death of djer.

What is this Mysterious figure

And what's it doing here?

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[narrator] Stephen harvey Believes clues could lie

In pharaoh seti's temple.

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[narrator] The walls here Are covered

In hundreds Of ancient scenes.

He hunts for any images Of the strange

Black stone figure.

On a huge wall carving, He finds a match.

[stephen] This is the scene We're looking for.

This sculpture found In the tomb has a lot

Of similarities with what We're seeing on the wall.

[narrator] The carving Shows the same figure,

A mummy lying on a bed With a long headdress

And bird hovering above.

Stephen Examines the hieroglyphs

Next to the image.

What really firmly Identifies this for us

Is the inscription up here.

Osiris existing eternally.

And here his wife, isis,

In the form of a falcon Hovering over him.

And here, their son, horus.

[narrator] Osiris is one Of the most powerful gods

In the egyptian pantheon,

The lord of the underworld.

But why is a massive Sculpture of osiris

Installed in king djer's tomb

Over 1,000 years After his death?

Stephen thinks The answer could shed light

On how abydos Becomes the focus of one

Of the greatest cults In the ancient world.

To investigate,

He travels Out to the desert

Where the osiris Sculpture is discovered.

Today, king djer's tomb Is hidden under the sand,

But clues on the surface Still remain.

Abandoned across The desert around the tomb

Are huge mounds Of ancient pottery.

[stephen] This isn't just A small skin

Of a few pots scattered On top of a mound of dirt,

This is pots through And through all the way down,

Literally millions of pots.

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These are the testimony

Of thousands of pilgrims Coming here

And leaving vessels Like this behind

In honor of the people Who were buried here.

[narrator] Stephen thinks All these pots

Are not just for king djer, They are for osiris.

[stephen] What happened Was that this tomb

Which was made for a pharaoh Of the first dynasty

Was later reopened By the egyptians.

They saw an impressive sight,

A massive brick-lined tomb That they took

For the burial Of the god osiris himself.

[narrator] In the 18th century bc,

Egyptian pharaohs excavate The ancient tombs at abydos.

They think the largest tomb

Must belong To the god osiris himself.

Inside the tomb they install

A fake sarcophagus For the god.

They construct stairs And restore the roof

So it's ready for visitors.

Pilgrims arrived from all over Egypt to pay homage to osiris.

They leave millions Of pots with offerings.

While the common man Leaves pots,

Seti and ramesses Build huge temples

Where priests practice The cult of osiris.

[stephen] It's for this reason That this place

Achieved a particular Significance

As a center for the worship Of osiris

For thousands, If not millions, of pilgrims.

[narrator] The retrofitted Stone sarcophagus

Helps make this spot In the remote desert

The epicenter Of the cult of osiris.

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[narrator] Since the great Tombs of the first kings

Are rediscovered at abydos,

The desert necropolis Inspires its own mythology.

It's a place Where royalty and common folk

Travel from far and wide To honor

Ancient kings And the lord of the afterlife,

Osiris.

Why do seti and ramesses Worship osiris

Above all other egyptian Deities?

Can a baffling Underground mega structure

At seti's temple reveal why Osiris is king of the gods?

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[narrator] Abydos,

Beneath the desert here Lie the 5,000-year-old tombs

Of egypt's first kings

And the traces Of a mysterious cult

That dominates The land of the pharaohs.

At its core, the lord Of the underworld, osiris.

There are over 2,000 gods In the egyptian pantheon.

Why do egypt's Greatest kings, seti

And ramesses choose osiris As their patron god?

Clues could lie In one of the strangest

Subterranean structures Ever found in egypt.

Behind his temple,

Seti begins an even more Ambitious project.

He digs a pit Over 60-feet deep

Designed to sit Beneath the water table

So that it fills up.

Seti builds a sandstone island Into this pool

And installs ten huge pillars Carved of granite

To support massive Stone ceiling beams.

Finally, he buries This massive complex

Under the desert sand.

What is this Sunken mega structure?

Seti's mysterious Underground monument

Hides clues to explain Why osiris

Becomes ancient egypt's Most important god.

For centuries,

It is completely flooded And inaccessible.

But now archeologists Have pumped out the water.

Our cameras Have exclusive access

To follow stephen As he ventures inside.

[stephen] At the end Of this long tunnel,

We've come to this room And we see

These countless names Of osiris

In different manifestations And representations.

And then we come here And there's an enormous image

Of osiris on his throne

With his son horus In front of him.

And then, here, We've got texts From the book of the dead.

[narrator] The book Of the dead is a collection

Of almost 200 spells The deceased must know

If they are to enter The afterlife.

It makes clear that only Osiris can grant eternity.

[stephen] This really Gives us an idea

That this structure is about Osiris and the transformation

That the king makes Into an eternal being.

[narrator] Seti builds this structure

To worship osiris and secure His own afterlife.

No other pharaoh In egyptian history

Builds anything like this.

[stephen] It was an Incredible engineering feat.

One of the most Impressive things

About this structure Is the water everywhere.

It surrounds This main central area

And we see steps cut down That lead to the water.

[narrator] Stephen believes This is all part

Of a symbolic design.

[stephen] It ran All the way around here,

Leaving this central area As an island

And that symbolism Is very important

In egyptian religion.

[narrator] The ancient Egyptians believe

That in the beginning There is a sea of chaos.

Out of these primeval waters Rises a pyramid shaped mound,

The first land.

On this mound, the gods shu And tefnut come into being,

God of the air And god of moisture.

Their children Are the gods nut and geb.

Nut, god of the sky, Who makes the rains,

And geb, god of the earth, Who makes plants grow.

From them comes the pantheon Of egyptian gods,

Including osiris, Lord of the afterlife.

[stephen] What we understand From this kind

Of architectural symbolism With the water

Around the central island, A mound of creation,

Is that this is meant To be the burial place

For the god osiris himself.

It's a huge, Monumental version.

[narrator] Seti hopes his creation

Will win him favor With osiris.

Does he have another reason To recreate the god's tomb?

To investigate, Stephen returns

To the king's Great mortuary temple.

He finds a clue On a relief carving

In the corner Of the great hall.

It shows a mother figure

Sitting with someone On their lap.

[stephen] It's actually The pharaoh seti.

The mother here Is actually isis,

The wife of osiris.

[narrator] Seti represents himself

As their son, horus.

It's a clue the pharaoh Doesn't hope

For just any place In the afterlife.

He wants to be in the pantheon Of egyptian gods.

[stephen] Seti's construction Makes sense when we realize

That he really saw himself

As part of the sacred family Of abydos.

In fact, upon his death,

Seti will view himself As osiris himself.

[narrator] At abydos,

Seti builds a revolutionary Megastructure

In the hope it will help him Become an immortal god king.

But there are signs here Of another innovation

That helps the pharaoh's Rise to ultimate power.

Could mysterious symbols

Buried in a 6,000-year-old Tomb

Reveal how his son, Ramesses,

Becomes the greatest Egyptian king ever known?

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[narrator] Abydos, A city of the dead.

A 5,000-year-old tomb In this ancient necropolis

Inspires the rise of The mysterious cult of osiris,

Lord of the underworld.

An intriguing discovery In an even older tomb here

Could reveal the secrets of Egypt's most powerful pharaoh,

Ramesses the great.

Beneath the sands at abydos,

Buried in a grave Almost 6,000-years-old,

Investigators find the remains Of an ancient ruler.

By his side are finely Carved hippopotamus figurines

And piles of pots Bearing mysterious etchings.

One shows a human figure.

He wears a feathered headdress And wields a huge club.

He towers above a group Of smaller figures.

This is the earliest Known image

Of an egyptian ruler Victorious in battle.

How does this Ancient drawing

Pave the way for ramesses' Rise to greatness?

In the abydos desert,

Ramesses builds His own monumental temple,

Right next to his father's.

Archeologist ayman damarany

Works with the egyptian Ministry of antiquities here.

[ayman speaking]

[narrator] The king portrays himself

Double the size Of the tied-up prisoners

Alongside him, A clear statement

Of his power to anyone Who enters his temple.

Ayman thinks this scene Shows striking similarities

To the one on the pot In the 6,000-year-old tomb.

[ayman speaking]

[narrator] These two scenes are created

Over 2,500 years apart.

Ayman believes they deliver A powerful message.

[ayman speaking]

[narrator] This image Is universally understood

In ancient egypt.

A symbol Of the pharaoh's power

And success, Created by some of egypt's

Earliest rulers Before the first hieroglyphs

Are invented.

It is copied And used by each pharaoh

For thousands of years.

But to become Egypt's most powerful king,

Ramesses needs to take This royal propaganda

To a new level.

At the start of his reign,

Ramesses uses A traditional form

Of carving in his iconography.

[ayman speaking]

[narrator] But at the eastern Edge of the temple,

Ayman finds a different style.

[ayman speaking]

[narrator] How does this Simple change of technique

Help ramesses rise to power?

Khaled nassar wants to test The time it takes

To produce the two styles.

He thinks the new technique Could help ramesses

Spread his propaganda More quickly.

He enlists the help of a stone Carver to investigate.

[khaled] So, we've got Two pieces of limestone, uh,

Very similar to what We would have found

In abydos and we'll try And scribe the symbol of life,

The ankh symbol.

[narrator] First, They carved the symbol

In raised relief, Seti's style.

-khaled starts the clock. -[khaled] And go.

[banging]

[narrator] After ten minutes,

The image Is only half complete.

[khaled] So you can see now

The detailed part Of carving out,

The raised-relief is done.

And now it's the Labor-intensive part,

The need to carve out

The rest of the stone From the face.

There's a lot more stone To carve out here.

[narrator] It takes almost Half an hour

To finish the symbol.

And stop.

And you can see how much area

That was carved out From the face

In order to create The raised-relief.

And you can imagine How much time

This would take if you have To do this for a whole temple.

[narrator] On a second slab Of limestone,

They carve The same image again.

And go.

[narrator] But this time

They use ramesses Sunken relief technique.

So you can see He's carving the symbol itself

Rather than The stone around it.

And stop.

[narrator] After only 12 minutes,

The symbol is complete.

A dramatic difference.

It's the same symbol,

Same size, Looks just as good,

And half of the time.

[narrator] Ramesses New inscription technique

Cuts the time it takes To decorate a temple in half.

He uses this method To inscribe hundreds

Of monuments across egypt.

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[narrator] Ramesses ii Takes royal propaganda

To new heights, Training huge workforces

To build temple statues In his image

On a scale Never seen before.

He spreads his work All the way down the nile,

From the delta, Where he builds new cities,

To abu simbel in the south.

Ramesses orders his workers

To spread his propaganda Far and wide.

The imagery He takes from the tomb

Of a long-dead ruler Projects strength and power

And proclaims him as the Greatest pharaoh of all time.

Not only does Ramesses the great

Depict himself But also osiris.

At abu simbel He fuses his own face

With the features Of the lord of the dead.

These 30-foot sculptures Epitomize ramesses' attempt

To place the osiris cult At the center of his reign.

[ayman speaking]

[narrator] Why do seti And ramesses

Need to go To such extreme lengths?

Clues from ramesses temple At abydos

Could reveal the hidden role Of the famous boy king,

Tutankhamun.

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[narrator] Abydos,

The necropolis Of egypt's first kings.

The spiritual home Of the god osiris,

Lord of the underworld.

Seti I builds An ingenious subterranean

Megastructure In his honor here.

Right next to it, Seti's son,

Ramesses the great,

Builds a second huge monument.

It could reveal A secret motive

Behind the two pharaohs' Deep devotion to this god.

Ramesses builds a hidden clue Into his magnificent temple.

Beyond the grand courtyard Filled with statues

Of the god osiris,

Buried in the foundation Of the western wall,

Is the first stone Laid in the construction

Of the temple.

Carved into it are cartouches

With two of the pharaoh's Many names.

On the right, a rare form

Ramesses only uses In his first year as king.

This means the temple At abydos

Is the first structure The young pharaoh ever builds.

Why is he in such a rush?

Ayman damarany believes There must be a reason

For his urgency.

He returns to ramesses' Father's monument at abydos,

Seti I's temple, To investigate.

Across one of the lavishly Carved walls

He examines An iconic inscription.

The king list.

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[ayman speaking]

[narrator] The king list Contains the names

Of 76 pharaohs that ruled Before seti and ramesses.

It reads like a family tree Of blue blood

That runs Back almost 2,000 years.

Seti and ramesses are two Of the few kings

To ever produce these tables.

But it's not the kings Listed here that reveal

A dark secret Behind this hall of fame.

It's the kings That are missing.

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[narrator] Akhenaten Is a pharaoh

Who rules egypt Around 1350 bc,

Only 50 years Before seti and ramesses.

He builds a city In the desert, amarna.

With open-air temples To worship the sun god,

The aten.

[ayman speaking]

[narrator] Akhenaten Is a heretic.

The pharaohs That followed destroy

His new city and religion.

[ayman speaking]

[narrator] Seti and ramesses Build great monuments

To osiris at abydos To align their rule

With egypt's Traditional religion and gods.

But ayman thinks there Could be another reason

For ramesses' decision To build his temple here

So quickly.

Akhenaten's son, the most Famous pharaoh in history.

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[ayman speaking]

[narrator] Tutankhamun, The boy king,

Is also erased From the king list.

Ayman thinks the fate Of tutankhamun helps explain

Seti and ramesses Building at abydos.

[ayman speaking]

[narrator] Tutankhamun's Military commander-in-chief,

Horemheb, Ultimately seizes power,

Installing himself as pharaoh.

But horemheb also has no sons.

So, he appoints his vizier Ramesses to be his successor.

Ramesses is followed By his son, seti

And grandson ramesses The great,

A line of kings with No legitimate royal blood.

[ayman speaking]

[narrator] Seti and ramesses Must always legitimize

Their rule.

It is a smart move For ramesses to build

His first temple Near the burial of osiris.

Osiris is the mythical First king,

The ideal candidate To help him and his father

To assert Their royal authority.

The tomb of osiris Becomes the site

Of a sacred ritual That ramesses himself

Likely takes part in.

The high priests pour water Over the mouth

Of osiris From 14 heart-shaped vessels.

The great pharaoh ramesses Declares himself

The living Form of the god osiris,

Legitimate king of egypt.

To assert his Self-proclaimed legitimacy,

Ramesses repeats this ceremony Every year until his death

At the incredible age of 90.

At abydos, Seti and ramesses'

Dedication to osiris is more Than a fast track

To becoming gods In the afterlife.

They use it to legitimize Their place

In the long line Of great egyptian kings.

Under ramesses the great,

The osiris cult At abydos reaches a pinnacle.

But could recent Discoveries reveal

Pilgrimages To this sacred site

Continue right Up to modern times?

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[narrator] The first kings To rule egypt

Build their tombs at abydos.

For thousands of years, Royal dynasties

Come to worship the dead here.

Under seti I And ramesses the great,

It is the holiest place In all of ancient egypt.

And there are clues That the allure of abydos

Never completely fades.

Ayman damarany explores the Walls at the temple of seti.

Hidden among The dense egyptian decoration

He spots strange markings.

[ayman speaking]

[narrator] The graffiti Is written in aramaic,

One of the languages Of the persian empire.

In 525 bc, The persians conquer egypt.

The invaders defeat The egyptians

But at the great temples Of abydos

They pray To their enemy's gods.

[ayman speaking]

[narrator] The marks left By the newcomers reveal

How the king Of the dead retains his crown

Long after his priests Have abandoned the temple.

[ayman speaking]

[narrator] But in the Centuries that follow

The cult of osiris Dies out across egypt.

At abydos the desert gradually Reclaims the temples.

When french archaeologist Auguste mariette

First discovers Seti's complex in 1865,

It is buried in the sand.

But now, a new discovery Inside it could reveal

How fascination With abydos is reignited.

When ayman and his team Explore a hidden room

In seti's temple,

They find bundles Of documents.

They include papers And reports

Of the first archaeologists.

[ayman speaking]

[narrator] Among hundreds Of notebooks

Are lists of visitors' names.

One entry reveals recent kings Continue

To be drawn to abydos.

[ayman speaking]

[narrator] The collection Doesn't just list visitors

But thousands of records From the first

Egyptian-run excavations At abydos.

Ayman thinks they are packed With clues to new discoveries.

[ayman speaking]

[narrator] When the first Egyptian kings

Choose this sacred location For their burials,

The construction Of a sacred landscape

Like no other in egypt begins.

Even today, Over 5,000 years later,

Abydos retains its allure.

It has become A pilgrimage site

For groups like new age Seekers and imseti

Who believes she was a Reincarnated temple priestess.

[stephen] Abydos Is extraordinary because

There are over 4,000 years Of egyptian civilization

Is represented here.

It's a complex place With a lot of stories to tell.

[narrator] At abydos, The treasure-filled tombs

Of the first kings

Mark the start of egypt's Royal dynasties

And are home To one of the biggest cults

In the ancient world.

It inspires egypt's Greatest kings

To build incredible monuments.

Empowered by the god osiris,

They drive egypt Into its golden age.

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