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00:01An ancient burial ground for Egypt's greatest pharaohs.
00:08It never gets old. It's truly a really special place.
00:13And the most famous archaeological site in the world.
00:18Yalabina, let's go!
00:20Now for the first time in over a hundred years,
00:24an elite team of archaeologists will excavate the tomb.
00:30Of one of the most powerful kings to have ever lived.
00:34Ramses III.
00:36The story of Ramses III is sensational.
00:40Even the tiniest clues about Ramses III's tomb would be an incredible find.
00:47With unprecedented access, the team will dig for three months to unearth clues.
00:56I'm very excited.
00:58And find lost treasures.
01:00This definitely belongs together.
01:03Unravelling a 3,000 year old murder mystery.
01:07This is a mortal wound.
01:09That exposes one of the most treacherous conspiracies of the ancient world.
01:14The idea that the pharaoh was assassinated is extraordinary.
01:19In the burial chamber of Ramses III, new evidence will be revealed.
01:26And 3,000 year old secrets discovered.
01:30Only in ancient Egypt can you actually do this sort of thing.
01:38The valley of the kings is some place of promise, of excitement.
01:52It is silent.
02:07It is mysterious.
02:10It's like you're in another world.
02:11The valley of the kings lies in the very heart of Egypt, hundreds of kilometers south from the great pyramids of Giza.
02:22Three and a half thousand years ago, the pharaohs stopped building giant pyramids to transport their mummies into the afterlife.
02:32Instead, they moved to the valley to build incredible underground tombs.
02:39The tombs are absolutely stunning and they served as this kind of resurrection machine to help the king enter the afterlife.
02:52In their tombs, the king's mummies were buried in nested coffins with everything they would need in the netherworld.
03:00Food, furniture, clothing, little magical artifacts that are supposed to help you and lots and lots of gold.
03:10The wealth of ancient Egyptian kings was the stuff of legend.
03:15It's the reason that archaeologists have scoured this unique and exclusive location for centuries.
03:23And its secrets continue to be revealed.
03:26It's an extremely challenging place, but the idea that archaeology of the valley of the kings is finished is not correct.
03:38Now, an elite team of archaeologists are beginning an excavation they hope will change history.
03:47In charge of the mission is Dr. Anka Weber.
03:50For more than 10 years, I always imagined what could be below my feet.
04:02This is the history of humankind.
04:06It's an honour to become part of this.
04:09Anka has negotiated exclusive access to dig for three months in one of the most prestigious tombs in the valley.
04:17Beneath the valley floor lie over 60 tombs cut into the rocky landscape.
04:23In the centre, the final resting place of the legendary boy pharaoh Tutankhamun.
04:27But just 30 metres away is the site of Anka's mission, tomb KV-11.
04:28KV-11.
04:29In the centre, the final resting place of the legendary boy pharaoh Tutankhamun.
04:31But just 30 metres away is the site of Anka's mission, tomb KV-11.
04:35Inside, decorated corridors plunge deep into the rock.
04:36Leading to a secret dig site, piled high into the rock.
04:38In the centre, the final resting place of the legendary boy pharaoh Tutankhamun.
04:40In the centre, the final resting place of the legendary boy pharaoh Tutankhamun.
04:44But just 30 metres away is the site of Anka's mission, tomb KV-11.
04:54Inside, decorated corridors plunge deep into the rock.
04:59Leading to a secret dig site, piled high with debris.
05:08This is the unexcavated burial chamber of King Ramses III.
05:16Ramses III is one of the towering figures from ancient Egyptian history.
05:21He defended Egypt at a crucial, pivotal time of not just Egyptian history, but in fact the entire Mediterranean world.
05:34Ramses III is considered Egypt's last great warrior king.
05:41Hieroglyphics reveal he ruled for 31 years, building vast temples.
05:47And battling marauding armies that threatened to destroy Egypt's empire.
05:56Incredibly, Ramses' mummy exists today, kept in a museum in Cairo.
06:05He was found almost 150 years ago, almost a kilometre from his tomb,
06:11high in the mountains above the Valley of the Kings.
06:14It was really one of the most earth-shattering finds.
06:19You get to actually look at Ramses III, not just a statue, but at him.
06:27The story of Ramses III is sensational.
06:30Any sort of information, no matter how little, we can glean from all of this.
06:35That would be very exciting.
06:36Now, for the very first time, Anka's elite archaeological team will fully excavate inside the great king's tomb.
06:48Its entrance has already been beautifully restored, filled with hieroglyphic text, designed to transport the king into the afterlife.
07:01But deeper down lies the tomb's secret, an ancient scene of destruction, off limits for over a century, and never fully excavated before.
07:19Ramses' burial chamber.
07:24It's absolutely incredible to be inside his burial chamber, where Ramses III, and the sarcophagus once rested, to revive him for the afterlife.
07:34Anka's mission is to clear away the debris, to unearth the tomb's lost artefacts, and finally unravel the mysteries of this great pharaoh's life and death.
07:49This is our task now, bringing back the magic of the burial chamber.
07:56The more we reveal and uncover from the sand, the more we will know about the person himself, and find something that was last seen by our ancestors.
08:07First, the team must haul out the surface debris, and search for any ancient artefacts that lie beneath.
08:22Today we are very excited. This is the day we were waiting for. I hope that we are lucky.
08:29The team works quickly, but excavating here is not without risk.
08:33Massive chunks of rock have tumbled six metres from the ceiling above, leaving the tomb incredibly fragile.
08:42Anka believes it's a result of violent flash floods around 100 years ago.
08:48We are looking to get more information about the flooding events, but the area is very unstable.
08:57To avoid further damage, the workers must wrestle the huge boulders by hand.
09:06As they clear away the debris, something begins to appear.
09:11It seems as if this would be a piece of metal.
09:18Actually, it's very unusual to find metal.
09:22We try our best to get it out in one piece, in order to see what it actually was.
09:28But as the team clears away the sand, there's a surprise.
09:31This is not metal. It's a piece of wood going into this direction.
09:39What we have here are parts of the spine of a living being.
09:46So, for now, it looks as if it is covered with linen a little bit.
09:53So, this would tell us that some kind of mummification took place.
09:59A piece of mummified human spine is an intriguing clue.
10:04And a mystery.
10:05Because Anka believes it shouldn't be here, in tomb KV-11, at all.
10:12The mystery is actually why do we have any kind of remains inside KV-11.
10:20We would never expect it here, because we know that the mummy of Ramses III
10:25is not placed in KV-11 anymore.
10:27Who does this mummified spine belong to?
10:31And why is somebody else buried inside Ramses' tomb?
10:44Clues could lie less than three kilometers away, at Ramses' temple.
10:50Egyptologist Meredith Brand investigates the site
10:54to decode the mysteries of the king's reign.
11:00It's one of the most famous monuments in Egypt.
11:04Medinet Habu.
11:10I love Medinet Habu Temple.
11:13It's really stunning because it's so complete.
11:17Inside, there's amazing colors.
11:21It's so well preserved.
11:22This is one of my favorite temples from ancient Egypt.
11:27This temple was built for Ramses III,
11:32so that people could give him offerings and celebrate him during his life and after his death.
11:37So what was celebrated about Ramses III's reign?
11:42On almost every facade is a scene of terror.
11:46Spilt blood, severed hands, and captured victims glorify the battles of the Pharaoh.
12:00Looking at these walls, it's clear that Ramses III wanted to show himself fighting enemies, smiting everyone.
12:06This temple says, I'm Ramses III and I'm a warrior king.
12:12So who was Ramses fighting against?
12:16On the side of the temple, Meredith finds a fierce conflict at sea.
12:21It's quite faint, but I can make out this massive image of Ramses III shooting a bow and arrow.
12:29At this melee of a battle, we have ships and soldiers and everyone's falling over into the water.
12:35It's pure fighting and chaos.
12:39The chaos reveals a group of marauding tribes known as the Sea Peoples.
12:45And they aren't the only adversaries threatening the borders of Egypt.
12:49There's battles of him fighting the Nubians.
12:54There's two separate battles fighting the Libyans.
12:57Ramses III was enmeshed in warfare.
13:00Ramses' temple records his astonishing victories over the enemies of the Egyptian Empire.
13:08Ramses III was not a warrior Pharaoh necessarily by choice.
13:14This was thrust upon him.
13:17He truly, truly lived at one of the most difficult times in which a king could reign.
13:24And the fact that he managed to make out of it what he did is a true testament to how great a king he was.
13:33Ramses was a celebrated and successful warrior king.
13:38So how did he die?
13:40And why are the mummified remains of someone else buried inside his tomb?
13:57130 metres deep into the bedrock of the Valley of the Kings.
14:02And Kaviba and her team delicately free the ancient spine from the floor of Ramses III's burial chamber.
14:12Around her, even more human remains are beginning to emerge, including what looks like a mummified limb.
14:19We found here a large part of a mummy very clearly.
14:26We can see the layers of linen that was soaked with resin in order to preserve this body for eternity.
14:37So for now we can't tell exactly which part of the mummy this is.
14:44However, it's very exciting because it's somehow like coming closer to all these people who once were part of the history of KV-11.
14:58Ramses III's mummy is no longer inside his tomb. It's preserved in a museum.
15:06So who do these body parts belong to? And why are they here?
15:13Anchor spots a new clue nearby.
15:15What we have here are parts of an ancient Egyptian coffin.
15:22There are remains of a plaster on top of the surface.
15:26You can see these dowels inside dowel holes.
15:30An expensive, plaster-covered coffin suggests the mummies were once members of the elite.
15:36Anchor believes they were probably buried here hundreds of years after Ramses' death,
15:41when Egypt was weak and fractured.
15:45They won't be able to precisely date the burials until a lab analysis.
15:50But Anchor has a theory on why they were here.
15:54Everybody wants to be something special.
15:57Everybody wants to become part of the history of something.
16:01So it is most likely that the people, high-ranking officials decided,
16:06oh yeah, why not, being buried inside the tomb of one of Egypt's most interesting and greatest pharaohs of all time.
16:17Ancient elites chose to be buried in the valley's magnificent tombs
16:22to pay homage to the kings that came before them.
16:26And Ramses III was one of the greatest kings of them all.
16:30So what was it that killed him?
16:33Meredith Brand has come to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization to investigate.
16:47It's such a unique and special aspect of ancient Egyptian culture that they preserve the dead.
16:55And that now, for us, we can look into the face of some of the greatest kings and queens of ancient Egypt.
17:03The pharaoh queen, Hatshepsut, Ramses II, and none other than Ramses III himself.
17:13It's so remarkable to stand here and see this very important and very powerful king.
17:26This mummy is beautifully preserved.
17:29You can see his facial features, even his teeth and his hair.
17:33The ancient Egyptians mummified the dead to preserve their bodies.
17:38They believed it would allow their body and soul to reunite in the afterlife.
17:45And they strived for perfection.
17:49A mummy like Ramses III was done with such care and attention.
17:55The embalmers would have removed his internal organs, washed him with oils and perfumes,
18:01packed his body with salt, and then wrapped his entire body up in linens.
18:09If something was wrong, the embalmers could fix it so that when the deceased got to the afterlife,
18:16not only would their body be there, but it would be more perfect.
18:19On the surface, Ramses' mummy looks completely intact.
18:26But X-ray scans reveal a different and shocking story.
18:34Beneath the bandages, six healing amulets are packed around Ramses' foot
18:41that conceal a missing toe, cut off with a heavy blade.
18:46On Ramses' neck, embalming resin fills a deep gash that splits the throat right down to the bone.
19:03The cut on Ramses III's neck, this severed the trachea and the esophagus
19:08and even nicked the bone in his vertebrae.
19:12This is a mortal wound.
19:17This kind of gash makes it clear that his death wasn't some kind of accident or a result of old age.
19:25He met a violent end, and all the evidence points to murder.
19:29The idea that the pharaoh was assassinated and by something as violent as that is extraordinary.
19:39It is an extraordinary and terrifying thought.
19:42It would have been almost unthinkable in ancient Egypt to try to assassinate the pharaoh.
19:50Can you imagine how difficult kind of an undertaking that would be?
19:56First of all, it's not a one-man job.
19:59You need allies in this sort of thing.
20:02You also need a motive.
20:04Why are you killing the king?
20:06Surely you must have a really good reason to actually undertake something so incredibly risky.
20:13Who killed Ramses III?
20:18And why did they want him dead?
20:29Deep inside Ramses' burial chamber, Anka and the team search for clues.
20:35But the surface of the tomb is a chaotic, jumbled mess of finds, making this mystery difficult to unravel.
20:48We have pieces of pottery that belong to a larger vessel.
20:53All these finds are mixed.
20:55Both ancient robbers and colonial-era explorers have rummaged through the debris,
21:00like a crime scene that has been revisited for centuries.
21:05We know that this area is disturbed.
21:08It's always puzzling for us to say what actually happened.
21:12But step by step, we will investigate what happened here in KV 11.
21:19But hidden within the debris, Anka spots something that may have belonged to Ramses III himself.
21:26We have here the lower part of a wooden Ushapti.
21:30It's rather destroyed.
21:32However, you can still see here, this is the beginning of the lower part of the feet.
21:37It could be over 3,000 years old.
21:41Across the chamber, the team finds the missing head.
21:45This definitely belongs together.
21:47They must have been disconnected somehow.
21:50That's amazing.
21:52Ushaptis are ancient figurines, often around a foot tall, that were buried with the deceased.
22:01A king like Ramses would have had hundreds.
22:05Hundreds.
22:08They acted as servants, inscribed with magic spells.
22:15So that if the dead was made to work in the afterlife,
22:19the Ushapti will say,
22:22Here I am, and do the work for him.
22:25The team analyzes the statue pieces, searching for inscriptions that could reveal a name.
22:35We have the hope that they belonged to the pharaoh Ramses III.
22:39But hard evidence of its original owner has been lost, eroded away from the Ushapti's delicate surface.
22:46The team will need to keep searching the mass of dried out mud and rubble, covering the chamber's floor.
22:56Any scrap of ancient material could reveal brand new details about the death and burial of one of Egypt's greatest kings.
23:08At the monumental temple of Medinet Habu, built to honor Pharaoh Ramses III,
23:35Egyptologist Meredith Brand investigates the king's brutal murder.
23:44She wants to establish a motive for his royal assassination,
23:51and believes the sheer number of battle scenes on his temple walls reveal a deeper story than just Ramses' military prowess.
24:00These scenes show Ramses III as this victorious ruler who was indestructible.
24:07In some ways, it is true, but there was a larger issue.
24:12Ramses III was surrounded by war.
24:16And this war took a toll on Egypt and its economy.
24:19Ramses III's never-ending battles begin to drain the resources of the country.
24:27And inflation spirals out of control.
24:31Strikes, civil unrest, and even famine strangle the heart of Egypt.
24:38Was Ramses killed because of the crumbling economy?
24:42Or were there other motives at play?
24:46Nobody ever blamed the pharaoh for anything.
24:51He was theoretically perfect, a divine ruler.
24:55What we do know is that he had a number of wives and a large number of children.
25:01And we don't think that he designated an heir during his lifetime.
25:11In ancient Egypt, the firstborn son would normally inherit the throne.
25:17But with no designated heir, the stage is set for a coup.
25:23Let's say you do have a motive.
25:27Okay, how do you do it?
25:29How do you find the allies?
25:31How do you know where people's loyalties stand?
25:35So you have to sort of start, you know, checking the pulse, as it were.
25:41See who might have grievances, perhaps.
25:44Once you have that in place, you need an entire network of people.
25:48But also, they need to be close to the person of the king.
25:59Meredith investigates a copy of an ancient papyrus originally discovered near the site.
26:07This is an image of an amazing papyrus from the time of Ramses III.
26:12It tells us about a conspiracy to kill the king.
26:18It reveals the proceedings of a murder trial.
26:23It's shocking the number of people involved in this conspiracy.
26:27It has everyone in the palace.
26:30It has people involved with food.
26:32It has security, army.
26:34And it has women of the harem, including Queen Tia, the wife of Ramses III.
26:39This is a courtroom drama playing out in front of our eyes that tells us when and how Ramses III was killed.
26:48One of Ramses' secondary wives, Queen Tia, leads the conspiracy to place her son, a younger, more minor prince, on the throne.
26:58Some believe that after a great festival at Medinet Habu, Ramses is steered into the apparent safety of his harem.
27:09Hear the attackers pounce and slice off Ramses' toe in the struggle before dealing the mortal wound.
27:23Here's the critical thing.
27:27The assassination attempt, that plot certainly succeeded.
27:33We know Ramses III died as a result.
27:37But ultimately, the coup was not successful.
27:42Over 30 perpetrators were caught, tried, and sentenced.
27:49The punishments outlined in this papyrus are quite severe.
27:54Some people had their nose and ears cut off.
27:57But those actually in the center of the conspiracy, they were executed.
28:01And Ramses' treacherous younger son never made it to the throne.
28:07He was examined. The judges found him guilty.
28:12They left him where he was, and he killed himself.
28:15Ramses' murder was a shocking family feud.
28:19But his death makes Ramses' even more important.
28:22A vast funeral procession leads his mummy into the Valley of the Kings on a new journey to become a god.
28:39How cool is it that we can talk about so much detail around this historical event that took place around 3,000 years ago?
28:51Only in ancient Egypt can you actually do this sort of thing.
28:56Inside Ramses' tomb, Anka and the team want to investigate what happened after the king's death.
29:10How did his tomb transform Ramses into an immortal god?
29:16Oh, what is that?
29:18Hidden below the debris, they have unearthed incredibly fragile pieces of 3,000-year-old tomb decoration.
29:28So beautiful.
29:30What we found here is a piece of the war decoration.
29:36And it's the food of this god here in the middle, and he's standing right on top of a snake.
29:43It's very amazing and very touching, because it's the first time that we have such a complete piece.
29:51It's a very lucky find.
29:53Very happy about it.
29:57The snake is a crucial clue that connects with the decoration in the rest of the tomb.
30:04This is so impressive.
30:06The paintings tell the story of an elaborate mythological journey.
30:10Ramses must go on to achieve eternal life.
30:17As night falls, Ramses follows the path of the sun god,
30:22as he voyages through the dangerous waters of the netherworld.
30:28To prove he is righteous, he must navigate the flames of a lake of fire
30:32and appease Apophis, the chaos serpent, who threatens to plunge the world into darkness.
30:42If he succeeds, the pharaoh rises as the sun god, Ra, bringing order and safety to the universe.
30:51The king in ancient Egypt served an important cosmological role.
31:00He was, during his lifetime and after his death, the embodiment of the sun god.
31:05The tomb itself, it was really a machine to make you go from this world to the next, to ensure the king's safety,
31:15to ensure that day followed night and the entire cosmos would continue to exist.
31:22In the burial chamber, the team carefully glues the fragile painted plasterwork.
31:29It's so delicate, they must lift it out with a stabilising block of sand below.
31:36Bless Jameel.
31:40Thanks God, we have it.
31:43I'm quite relieved, actually.
31:46Yeah, that's a very, very special object.
31:50But hiding among the rubble is something even more tantalising.
31:55More than 3,000 years after its construction, the crumbling burial chamber of Pharaoh Ramses III could still hold secrets.
32:19A month into her mission, deep beneath the Egyptian desert, Dr. Anka Weber and her team unearth a mysterious stone.
32:32Clues concealed beneath the debris could help unravel how the king was buried after his brutal assassination.
32:41This is amazing. We have found here a piece of rose granite.
32:44I didn't expect that here, so we are going to lift this object out now very carefully.
32:54Rose granite is an expensive, high-quality stone, far more precious than the surrounding limestone of the chamber.
33:05Inside the Valley of the Kings, it would have been brought in from over a hundred kilometres away,
33:10to create one thing, the Pharaoh's sarcophagus.
33:15I want to make a shield.
33:17Okay?
33:19I want to make a shield, okay?
33:20I want to make a shield.
33:22Okay?
33:24Okay.
33:27Oh my gosh.
33:29That's amazing.
33:31Please dry clean it.
33:32Make all your notes.
33:33I want pictures from before the cleaning and after the cleaning, and we will see. That's amazing.
33:40The team keeps digging and reveals even more of the precious granite pieces.
33:46Sheela, I'll drop us.
33:48Come on.
33:50Mudita?
33:51No, I'm your eyes.
33:57Yeah, boy, yeah, boy, yeah, boy, yeah, boy.
34:00It's tomorrow, all right.
34:03Me, yeah, me.
34:04We have a very clear corner here.
34:10I'm quite speechless.
34:12There are many possibilities what this can actually be.
34:16That it is most probably part of a foot, but one thing is clear, it is amazing.
34:24If this is the foot of Ramses III's sarcophagus, it's a huge discovery.
34:31These pieces would be an incredibly rare clue about how the king was buried.
34:38But something doesn't add up.
34:41Because a sarcophagus belonging to Ramses III already exists.
34:47In Paris, at the Musée de Louvre, Egyptologist Christophe Barbotin explores the museum's collection of ancient burial equipment.
35:10Deep in the crypt lies one of the most prized ancient objects in the museum's entire collection.
35:31A giant rose granite sarcophagus, beautifully inscribed on every surface, with hieroglyphic evidence.
35:42To know who belonged to this sarcophagus, you have to look at these two ovales.
35:46Here, which we call a card.
35:49We read it here.
35:51Ouser, Maat, Reh.
35:54Mary, Amon.
35:56If we translate it literally,
35:57Puissante la justice de Reh, l'aimé d'amont.
36:00And here, Reh Meses, c'est-Ã -dire Ramses,
36:04which means the child of the sun,
36:06Heka Yunou, the sovereign of the Heliopolis.
36:11These two cartridges are Ramses III,
36:13so we have no doubt about the identification of the monument.
36:16Removed from tomb KV-11 around 200 years ago, the complete sarcophagus is an 18-ton behemoth, topped with a colossal matching lid, itself now stored in a museum in England.
36:36Both parts are covered with religious texts bearing the name of the king.
36:43And the top is carved with Ramses as Osiris, the god of death.
36:50I think this sarcophagus is magnificent.
36:58And, above all, it interests me very much for what it means.
37:03The pharaons were buried in the sarcophagus of stone to protect the body, the momies.
37:09The momies being indispensable for all the Egyptian morts,
37:12so that they can continue to survive in the beyond.
37:15The protection of the momies, whether it's royal or not, is a defense,
37:21a defense against the enemy, visible or invisible.
37:25The defense here is materialized by the motif of the grave,
37:29which is at the bottom of the sarcophagus.
37:32It manifests well the protection aspect.
37:35Christoph examines the granite, searching for evidence of damage.
37:40The sarcophagus of Ramses III, which you see, is almost intact.
37:43The body of the sarcophagus shows barely a chip of damage.
37:47The chunk of broken granite, Anchor has found in KV-11,
37:51can't possibly have come from this.
37:53But the lid is a different story.
37:54It still bears the scars of some ancient heists.
37:58The cover from Fitzwilliamuay as a voice and a man of the dancers
38:08was a little bit endommagated, because the officerskin fell past her
38:15The cover of the Fitzwilliam Waysom of Cambridge was a bit damaged because the firefighters
38:21have descended it when they were going to get to him.
38:24So he was hit brutally on the ground and was fragmented, especially on the feet.
38:29Ramsay's sarcophagus is now housed thousands of miles from his tomb in England and France.
38:37And there are pieces missing from them.
38:42Is it possible that they never left the burial chamber?
38:47Has Anka's team found one of them buried in the ancient rubble?
38:54Anka inspects a digital model of the lid for clues.
38:58She finds the granite at the bottom around the pharaoh's feet is missing
39:03and has been reconstructed for display.
39:06This is the exciting thing. The feet are missing.
39:11It is most likely that this object here is a part of this sarcophagus lid.
39:18Anka has a missing piece of Ramsay III's 3,000-year-old sarcophagus lid.
39:26That's so incredible and it would be my dream to virtually reunite these pieces.
39:33If they can unearth more pieces, the team might decode the most critical part of Ramsay's burial chamber.
39:44The sarcophagus is the focal point of the burial containing the king's instructions for navigating the afterlife.
39:54The king didn't make it to the afterlife. The sun might not rise. The world might end.
39:59It was so important to have a sarcophagus to protect his body.
40:03So his afterlife maintained the cosmic balance of ancient Egypt. So the stakes were pretty high.
40:09Inside Ramsay III's tomb, the granite pieces keep coming. And now, crucially, with inscriptions.
40:26We keep finding pieces of rose granite actually almost daily.
40:33We can see that here on top, the surface is sculpted with a snake.
40:39And here on the sides, we have hieroglyphs that tell us more about the deceased person and that he was actually, here he's called a god.
40:49Named as a god, it is almost certain to belong to Ramsay's sarcophagus. And the pieces even fit together.
40:58Oh, wow. Wow. That works very well. It fits exactly. That's perfect.
41:06It's absolutely amazing.
41:08But something is strange. Great. Can you check this piece, please?
41:13These newest pieces of granite don't match with any part of the lid that is already known.
41:19For Anke, it can only mean one thing.
41:23I guess that we have something that is even more exciting.
41:27So it might be that we have here one or even two other lids that probably belong to Ramsay III.
41:36It would mean that Ramsay's didn't just have one sarcophagus, but two or even three nested inside each other.
41:48Why would the ancient Egyptians build such a difficult and complicated construction?
41:55Why would the ancient Egyptians build such a difficult place?
41:57Why would the ancient Egyptians build such a difficult place?
41:58Why would the ancient Egyptians build such a difficult place?
42:00Outside in the Valley of the Kings, Anke investigates.
42:05She explores a nearby tomb.
42:10Its long corridors extend deep into the rock and open to reveal the burial chamber of one of Ramsay's predecessors,
42:23a king named Meremptar.
42:26His tombs actually worked like a template.
42:30It's basically a clue of how the tomb of Ramses III once looked like.
42:36In the centre of the burial chamber, assembled from granite fragments, is a gigantic box.
42:44Four metres long and over two metres high, it's the largest sarcophagus in the Valley of the Kings.
42:56Next to it, Anke finds a seven-ton granite lid, covered in beautiful religious carvings.
43:07The pieces are part of a set of four colossal stone sarcophagi that all once nested inside each other.
43:16It's unbelievable that they were able to lift these tons and tons of massive material inside the burial chamber.
43:24And Anke has a theory why the ancient Egyptians went to such lengths.
43:30It was of religious significance to protect the deceased pharaoh.
43:36So nesting and nesting and nesting until you come to the centrepiece wrapped in his royal linen for the mummy.
43:45Protecting the mummy of the pharaoh was critical.
43:49But very few kings in history had nested sarcophagi this large and elaborate.
43:56Was this how Ramses III's mummy was buried too?
44:01Oh, it would be spectacular if maybe, just maybe, Ramses III was in fact buried in more than one sarcophagus.
44:10It's such a rare find. These tombs have been robbed in antiquity.
44:15So to find extra evidence, anything that lets us piece together how these incredible figures from history were buried,
44:24we'd all be all the richer for it.
44:27More than 3,000 years after his death at the hands of his own family,
44:33Ramses III's tomb is still giving up secrets.
44:39But Anke's campaign, deep beneath the pharaoh's sacred valley, is far from complete.
44:48If we imagine what we have here, this hill in front of us, there must be more below.
44:56Next time, Anke and the team dive down into the limestone rubble in search of clues left on the chamber's original floor.
45:12Could a surprise discovery implicate a legendary archaeologist in the theft of another pharaoh's riches?
45:27This is the first hard proof that objects had been taken out of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
45:36What can ancient graffiti reveal about why Ramses' body was snatched?
45:42Everyone thought that these mummies had been lost.
45:45Oh, this is incredible. Wow. The mummies were here for a reason.
45:52And can Anke be the first archaeologist to uncover original grave goods from the Valley of the Kings in more than a century?
46:00The sign Heka means ruler. It's amazing.
46:04With weeks of digging still to come, the full story of Egypt's last great pharaoh could be just below the surface.
46:13We never know what we will find. Still, there are mysteries to solve.
46:43Ones of Taiwan and now, a man who has been growing up the same definition of his chlorophyll.
46:48So, you know what he is a perfect example to follow, champion of the city, and behind the scenes he was saying,
46:52he can't be experienced in nothing.
46:53He can't be his main character, but he's the only thing to do.
46:57To his identity, he can't be his own character.
47:02He can't be his own character, but he can't be his own character.
47:05He can't be my character, but he will be a male character and his character.
47:08He can't be his people.
47:09If he is a creator, he can't be a member of his character.
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