Tombs of Egypt : Looking for Imhotep’s Tomb | SLICE SCIENCE

[Music] it is 8:00 in the morning on the Sakura plateau in Egypt for weeks now workers have been patiently clearing out a shaft that was completely covered by sand over the course of Millennia at first sight this hole in the ground doesn't seem any different from hundreds of others nearby however it's going to reveal an archaeological treasure it is such an important discovery that nmin Wen director of the excavation site notifies archaeologist zwas in person you should come with me now cuz there is an interesting thing a shaft and you should you must come down

okay now let's go okay Zas has been exploring the desert for over 50 years to extract from it some of ancient Egypt's most beautiful Treasures he is always hoping to find new clues that could take him closer to his holy grave otep's Tu it is a risky descent this shaft is over 10 m [Music] deep in the dimly lit shaft the archaeolog olist sees an imposing Limestone sarcophagus it's a rare and exceptional Discovery his tension and excitement are tangible because this is exactly what the archaeologist has been looking for it's inside this type of grave

that could be lying the famous architect of jer's pyramid so does this tomb still hold the remains of the deceased oh [Music] God the mommy is in a perfect no the mommy is in a good condition mumification is really good it's covered completely with linen but to have in a big room cutting The Rook like this with a mommy in a good condition like this it's really rare Zas is in for more surprises he notices an astonishing detail beside him is a very large wooden stick that he wants to use it afterlife booking maybe he

used that stick in his lifetime but I don't see any artifacts uh inside to help me for more dating of this mommy then I think maybe maybe I should enter inside to see if there's more descriptions or not there is no artifacts no inscriptions Clues are scarce so given the presence of that intriguing stick Zas decides to have the mummy analyzed he's determined to get to the bottom of this mystery no matter what who could possibly be hiding behind this [Music] mummy Zas hopes to make the discovery of the century finding the tomb of imotep

who was the architect of the very first step pyramid and Grand vizer to Pharaoh joser his tomb should look like the one that's just been discovered but much more luxurious to have an idea of what it could look like imagine a big tomb like the ones in the Valley of the Kings near luxur Pharaoh eyes is a good example of what is expected for such an important personage of the Old Kingdom luckily the king's tomb which was discovered in 18 196 is in a perfect state of preservation the pharaoh's imposing sarcophagus still sits in the

center of the burial chamber but his mummy has never been found as for otep's Tomb it is the object of every archaeologist dream it would have been a massive Monument it would have been whitewashed maybe some paint on the outside gleaming bright it would have been quite a beautiful site there would certainly be the underground part of the Tomb uh with his burial chamber where his body would have been placed maybe in a stone sarcophagus which would have been very expensive I imagine that his tomb will be full of silver and gold and wonderful things

wonderful things but above all what the egyptologists truly hope to find is information about who imotep really was that's where the actual interest of this discovery lies so we would expect to find images and hieroglyphs on the walls naming motep and giving his titles with a separate section for a burial there would probably be some kind of biography of imotep which would be so incredibly important to decipher and read and U maybe that would tell us something about whom he really was as a person so that would be incredibly valuable the discovery of otep's Tomb

would tribute to advancing knowledge about the old Empire that's why everyone on this campaign is mobilized to find its exact [Music] location for over 10 years now archaeologists have been Excavating on a little known but exceptional site at the sakarat necropolis complex 30 km south of Cairo it is called gizer el mudir a 650 M long and 350 M wide in en closure it is situated just a few hundred meters west of the famous pyramid of joser Humanity's very first pyramid which was built by the great architect of the time imotep the gizer el- mudir

graveyard was built around 2600 BC and is home to thousands of mummies and tombs it was the historic necropolis of the very first Kings following jer's funerary complex all the great Kings including kufu CF Menor as well as those of the Middle Kingdom chose to be buried near that complex because it was a very important burial ground over the centuries this necropolis complex accommodated people from all social classes who wish to be buried near the Pharaoh in order to benefit from his aura or Baraka zwas therefore decided to concentrate the exovations around jer's pyramid in

order to finally find the tomb of imotep an aidite architect that's famous for his knowledge and wisdom the main necropolis for royalty and high officials would be at Sakara so we assume that it would be a something that he would have done he would have commissioned a tomb for himself at Sakara somewhere uh near maybe the Royal Cemetery a colossal task given the extent of the site it stretches for approximately 6 and 1/2 km and it's wide by a kilometer and a half so it is a large area but not so much when you think

about 3,000 years of ferary activity on that particular spot all the Mysteries surrounding this civilization keep fascinating all archaeologists especially since Napoleon bonapart campaign in Egypt at the turn of the 19th century this was a particularly shaped Kingdom it's often said Egypt has four colors it is built around the Nile which is blue and surrounded by Green oases then there's the ochre desert and the blue sky above so it's like a microcosm where an extremely brilliant civilization developed with the Pharaohs holding a special position imotep was not a pharaoh but he was so renowned and

influential that he ended up being considered a god today this genial architect is indeed the main focus of everyone's [Music] [Applause] attention on the day following the discovery of the Mummy with a stick Radiology specialist basm gahad comes to gizer elunir with his high-tech equipment this medical technology is typically used to detect bone fractures through x-ray scans but in our case it will enable the egyptologists to unlock the mysteries of the Mummy without so much as touching its linen bandages the machine is handled with the utmost care the workers slip into the sarcophagus and carefully

catch the mummy which weighs under 10 kilos easy there be careful the last people to touch it were the priests who laid it here several thousand years ago enormous patience and precaution is required to take it to the place where it will be analyzed it looks like the mummy in the movies that scar people The Mummy is meticulously swaddled in linen bandages proof of all the Care bestowed on the deceased by his or her relatives in order to make sure they would enjoy a wonderful afterlife utep's body was also most certainly embalmed such a privilege

was reserved for the Nobles and the royal family in the Old Kingdom but this particular mummy is from a later period than the grand Architects they're 2,000 years apart when I look at the style of mumification it's for sure it's dated to the late period this is the style of mumification in 500 BC which could be the 26th Dynasty exactly the same raping the same covering who is the person that lies buried here why is there a stick those are only two of the questions iaas would like to find answers to they put this mommy

inside with this stick because this person maybe was an overseer he was a leader of some of the Workman and this is the style of holding a stick the scanner may help him solve part of the mystery the first X-Ray Scan was performed on an Egyptian mummy in 1896 since then the technology has evolved greatly even if the principle Remains the Same a machine emits x-rays that go through the object scann and the image is printed on a plate known as a detector x-rays go through certain types of matter like a mummy's bandages but they're

stopped by the bones which can therefore be seen in the x-ray images and then just like a forensic expert the radiologist can scrutinize The Mummy secrets in this particular case The X-Ray Scan will reveal a completely unexpected story female [Music] female now from the belis here we have this very wide angle that is identical for a woman for a woman yes yeah if it's like narrow angle it it's a man but this is a really wide angle she she might give birth as well the scanner has just revealed some amazing news contrary to what zahwa

thought upon seeing the stick this is a woman's mummy it's the first discovery of this kind the archaeologist has ever made he wants to find out more from the teth can we find out the age of this yep how old we just checked the eruption of te in the in both the mandibula and maxilla and she has all the wisdom te meaning that she 20 23 years but then she lost one of this wisdom th meaning that she exceed almost 30 to 35 years 30 means she died early early she was young when she died

like she was like a just becaming an adult and then she died but no cause of death can be defined through the deceased woman's bones her skeleton is in perfect condition the only clue is that missing tooth let's not forget that something that is harmless nowadays could prove fatal 2500 years ago there was no antibiotics or something like this so even if she lost one of the te that is here this could be one of the reasons if she lost one te then any infection could go directly to the blood the young woman could have

been killed by an infection that's an important piece of information that can help Zas better understand her story but he's still intrigued by the presence of the stick oh it was used it's syamore syamore type of wood why was this stick placed in the tomb was it a device to help her walk or something completely different like a stick of symbolic power that was placed next to a priestess the unprecedented find inspires multiple hypotheses and Zas can't tell for sure which one is right when I first looked inside the sarcophagus and I saw the stick

I was sure that this is a mummy of a man because a stick means power power uh for a pharaoh or an important man then I thought that this could be an overseer of the Workman but now why we have this stick inside and beside the Mommy it's a mystery to me even if this woman was buried over 2500 years ago without leaving many Clues as to the cause of her death the analysis performed by the archaeologists does unveil part of the mystery we know it's the mummy of a woman maybe she was a priest

with her intriguing [Music] stick if the dead woman's identity is a mystery one thing is for sure she was a member of an elite that was able to afford a luxurious grave Nobles and viers like imotep who was a top politician were also probably buried in imposing sarcophagi but not everyone in the Egyptian Society was as lucky this morning the excavation team made a surprising discovery right in the sand it seems to be a rudimentary grave a modest Reed coffin fragile though it may seem this plant has crossed Millennia with no difficulty no one could

have imagined that Reed stalks had been laid here several thousand years ago and they might still be protecting someone's bones [Music] AFA Waba is an archaeologist and osteologist she has just arrived to analyze the coffin in the previous season she examined an astonishing grave containing two skeletons intertwined she eventually pieced together the moving story of the coffin's occupants they weren't lovers but a mother and her son buried [Music] together today she hopes to once again be able to find clue about the Egyptians of ancient [Music] times this read coffin is situated only a few meters

from the luxurious Stone sarcophagus of the Mummy with the stick that was found a few days earlier even though they were Neighbors in eternity these two people had certainly belonged to two different worlds touched me a lot I will tell you why uh now I taking you to another different quality and different social class then you saw already in shaft 42 with the stick mommy the other one is high official and this is very poor individual and both of them have the same hope to have that chance to keep their body inside a good container

which is the coffin to have a better life in afterlife and this poor one his only chance to throw this the plated Reed coffins found indicate that some people were buried in pseudo cofin for those who couldn't pay for a proper tomb a type of coffin was designed that they could afford preserving their bodies after death was imperative for ancient Egyptians regardless of social background this coffin and the human remains in it will provide plenty of information about the people of Egypt because little is known about the lower classes of that Civilization we know more

about their diet what kind of food they eat and what kind of occupation what kind of work they did from their muscle attachment in their bones their bology so we know if they have a better good life easy life or tough life from their bones the top part of the Grave is removed because the Reed stalks collapsed into the coffin and then there's the body in exactly the same position it was buried thousands of years ago it is a moving discovery as for the burial orientation north to south the skull at North and the burial

position he is in a in a Loosely flexed position like this not a tightly and uh laying in in her left side like this Facing East a typical position in the Old Kingdom the period in which imotep lived for all we know the person who was buried here might have crossed paths with the architect that's why any Discovery like this one takes us one step closer to the vizer and enables us to better imagine the society in which he lived this is a Treasures really I mean it because in other sites when we have one

or two burials from Old Kingdom this is big big thing now we have like more than 80 intact burials from the old the kingdom uh belong to different social classes for thousands of years the spiritual appeal of this necropolis attracted thousands of Egyptians wishing to be buried at this mythical place which is why G and mudir hold such an incredible wealth of remains especially human remains AFA Waba unveils the secrets of this tomb from the skull I can see the gabella which is this area in here this area in here can tell me she's a

woman the man more robust and more this the gabella is more big this area in here and also the Eminence of the Mand more Square the woman is more pointed and more more delicate but this we have to wait to look in the lab uh for the pelvis which come in the first uh uh place to tell us the sex once AFA Waba has completed her insitu analysis of the Tomb she decides to have the bones transported to her lab in a few days she will extract some astonishing information from these human remains a few

days later the archaeologists make another Sensational Discovery also dating back to the Old Kingdom this fabulous treasure was brought to light in late 2022 and it immediately hit the headlines across the world their statues of a mysterious character that were found right there in the sand exposure to Daylight could easily damage them so restorer Amir ABD alfata is trying to save them the ancient Egyptian H use a lot of material from natural to make a red color and pl color and green color but if you found a blue color this blue color is destroyed quickly

because it's fragile so when I found a blue color this is a fa col I consolidate the Limestone of the statues has also suffered the ravages of time this is part is destroyed and this a lot of parties I fixed it sometimes we can't find all uh pieces like this so we use a mortar to complete this part [Music] what makes this an exceptional Discovery is the considerable number of statues found at the same spot there are nine of them in total representing a mysterious figure look at this one it's a small size a masterpiece

of a statue of the Old Kingdom the deceased is a standing and look at this skirt and the color you have red and black and this wig is really beautiful the statue depicts the image of the deceased in a way which is worth noting just as hieroglyphic writing was alive images were alive as well placing a statue inside a tomb meant the deceased would be living Forever This is a discovery of incalculable archaeological and artistic value archaeologists rarely find remains this old dating back to the early days of the Egyptian civil civilization but this is

also a particularly moving testimony this person wished to be represented in the company of all his loved ones a bit like a family photo of the time and this is a family tomb contained the husband the wife but you can see the concentration here on the husband because he's the head of the family his son was not left out he accompanied his father in the afterlife this is a beautiful child statue maybe 12 years old with ancient Egypt always they saw children like this they have the hair this side and it's naked ancient Egyptians wanted

to make sure that when they transition to the afterlife that they had images of their children that could also join them and they could still enjoy their family [Music] together following this exceptional Discovery zah hawas tried to rec construct this man's life but a key piece of the puzzle was missing his identity who was this man that was wealthy and powerful enough to afford all those statues in his honor necessarily A dignitary that was close to the Pharaoh could it be imot why there is no names what is the hieroglyphic this person were crazy how

he can lead the sculptors to make n statues for him without a name after several weeks investigation A Stroke of Luck the archaeologists have Unearthed a magnificent false door which was found just a few meters from the statue they bring this totally unexpected Discovery to zwas by arranging all the pieces of this puzzle that lay scattered in the Sakura desert the egyptologist finally finds the answer he has been searching for for months look here is the man miss SE this is a sign Miss s e Miss C here now that the final missing piece of

the puzzle has been found zwas can finally complete the biography of the man with the nine statues this is a key moment for the archaeologist investigation the nine statues belongs to someone his name was Missy and uh it's dated back 4,300 years ago the mystery the archaeologists had been racking their brains over since those statues were found has been solved at last the owner's name engraved in stone has traveled across the ages to leave us a testimony of his life to the archaeologist these objects which dazzled the entire world prove that there are still marvelous

discoveries waiting to be made in the desert sands and I really believe the discovery of the UN states can tell us for the first time that Sakara is still a virgin site and there is many things can be discovered I always say that we found in Egypt now only 30% and there is 70% buried underneath the [Music] ground these tombs and Sumptuous Treasures relate only to the Egyptian upper classes but the Sakura necropolis complex held such an appeal over the entire society that everyone wanted to be buried here so as to be as close as

possible to the pyramid built by imotep including the poor whose tombs modest as they may seem are Treasure troves of information for the archaeologists this morning nmin mamen and Amir abdal fata have precisely discovered a rudimentary tomb that could have completely gone under the radar okay we will remove this uh this layer of sand uh after that we we will use the brushes and we will cover the mum and we will pick up but slowly because the weather is very bad today despite the harsh working conditions the two archaeologists insist on seeing their task through

they carefully removed the sand that was built up by wind and time it has a small size yeah small size and they make a moving Discovery the this peral exactly belong to a baby we try to discover the thing here after 4 hours of meticulous work by the two egyptologists the child mummy finally sees daylight again having spent thousands of years in the dark preserved by the arid climate conditions it is in very good condition we hardly ever really at least at Sakara find burials of children they're very rare and that really doesn't mean that

children were not frequently dying it simply is an indication that potentially small children were treated differently what was the place of children in Egyptian civilization these discoveries can teach us a great deal about that children are often depicted so the family unit is sufficiently significant for Artisans to be commissioned to represent the family so children are important if children die they are mummified they are treated carefully and they join their parents in a family tomb the children were very important also because they have to go to paradise like the father and the mother and this

why they MiFi them they buried them in sarcophagus like anyone then they were very important uh to the family the archaeologist will try to establish who this child was and why he or she died in order to do that they're going to have the mummy x-ray scanned and analyzed the workers are asked to transport it to zaha's [Music] tent the operation is even more difficult this time because of the strong winds they must move fast if they want to avoid losing crucial information about this mummified [Music] child zwas has sent for the radiologist basm gahad

who is going to methodically scan every single part of the mummy's body the style of mumification for this child I don't know if it's a girl or a boy is actually 500 BC the late period what has allowed Zas to date The Mummy is the weave of the linen bandages it's characteristic of the late period and it's exactly the same as that of the Mummy with the stick found in the sarcophagus both people lived in the same period of ancient Egypt around 2500 years ago and now so through the X-ray we can understand more about

the person the first images are displayed on the screen they show the child's skeleton the arms are crossed over the chest and the skull is fractured here is the first mystery for the egyptologist to solve the head is Dam can we find out out if this damage happened in his life do you think how can we find out if there is any kind of healing of Bones yes this might give us indication that happens before this then what do we see in the bones now no it happens after this not before mean damage recently recently

yes okay now go to see if any cause of death there is an issue with the bones the bones is just curving care it seems that he has a disease that affected on the health and the bones can you find out now the age of death first yes almost 40 years old 40 years old yeah then he died in the age of four it's difficult difficult for him to find out that this mommy is a for a boy or a girl and he thinks that maybe he died because he suffered of uh a disease child

mortality rates were very high in ancient Egypt studies estimate that 20% of children died before the age of 1 and 30% of them didn't live past the age of five for a number of reasons children are generally very vulnerable and it's all about their immature immune system many diseases would have plagued small children and that for a child to grow up and make it past their adolescence into adulthood was not always guaranteed so there was a considerable amount of child mortality in the Old Kingdom that would have continued throughout ancient Egypt a lot of children

would not have survived diseases that couldn't be treated at the time things like difteria could have been a major problem and potentially fatal for children diarrhea malaria again tummy bugs and things like that would have been really serious things for children malaria was endemic in ancient Egypt this mosquito born infectious disease affected children and adults alike regardless of social background analysis performed on Tuten Common's mummy revealed that he had contracted malaria in his life but in order to know more about children's living conditions their place in society and how they were treated in death more

tombs would have to be found this excavation Campaign Will perhaps enable Specialists to acquire further knowledge about this little known part of Egyptian population the modest Reed coffin discovered a few days ago at the foot of the pyramid built by imotep Will shed some light on the living conditions of the poor in Egyptian Society the bones it contained have been brought to AFA waba's lab the osteologist is now ready to examine them in detail she can already confirm that her initial assumption was correct all her scull tells us she's a female and also from her

Jo her M she's a female from this Eminence and this flaring and also the pelvis tells us she's a female the state of the hip bone also enables her to determine a key fact to build an accurate portrait of this lady her age she is oh hold from this IR regular surface this part I can tell she is more than like 50 plus what is also striking for the osteologist is the poor state of the deceased lady's teeth she lost all her teeth during her life with h Jo long long time ago before her death

and also she has serious problem in her maxillary teeth she has a lot of calcus in her maxillary te as you can see it huge severe Cal dental problems were common among the ancient Egyptians regardless of their social class the analysis of several Royal mummies has shown that even the Pharaohs also had very bad teeth the reason why ancient Egyptians would um suffer from dental disease would be uh because of the type of diet primarily so thinking about what kind of food you eat and whether it is highly kryogenic meaning it can contribute to development

of dental decay osteology is a way of reading the bones diseases anemia fractures and the size of the disease are only some of the information inscribed in them bones are like an open book that tells a person's story these human remains have the great advantage of resisting the passing of time over millions of years sometimes these ones may help AFA Waba to find some indication about how this lady died we can tell that her bones doesn't show any uh infection diseases which normally we can see it in the in the lung bones so and also

she doesn't have any fracture but I can tell that she has a lot of porosity doe to it do you to her old age in here this small holes this is procity gradually the veil is lifted about the woman who is buried here in great poverty despite her poor living conditions apparently she died of natural causes not of an infection I will measure the femmer to figure out her stature how tall she was the maximum length is 4 92 mm and from the maximum length of the fmer which we have she was 1 M 58

cm the identic picture of the Dead lady in the Reed coffin is coming through little by little thanks to the oologist analysis it is a woman in her 50s who was 1 M 58 and suffered from dental problems but had no infection studying the human give us the clear image about the real story for those people who doesn't have the luxury or the chance to keep their memory in the big tomus and big nice painting they only chance to keep their Memories by studying their human remains like this through her work AFA Waba brings back

to life people who died several thousand years ago the bones found in even the most rudimentary tombs have crossed the ages and today they Enlighten us about the living conditions of people in the different layers of ancient Egypt's social pyramid this morning another team has started working in a part of the necropolis complex that remains practically unexplored Zas is still tracking down antiquity's greatest sage imut and something tells him an extraordinary Discovery is about to be made a new shaft has just been cleared and it's ready for exploration ours is the first camera to penetrate

this secret place at the bottom of this 15 M shaft there lies a magnificent Limestone sarcophagus it is a rare and unique find the style of this cagus it has to be all Kingdom it's not late period its size is impressive about 2 m long and 1.5 M tall the sarcophagus is like maybe more than 25 tons weight and the Le is big I think it's more than three tons its owner's name is inscribed on it in red hieroglyphs hey the doctor I try to make translation and the translation for the owner of the sarus

you know what's his name yeah shus is name in a graffiti is not really beautiful writing the Scribe who did that was not really trained well he did maybe quickly after they put the deceased inside they wrote this graffiti with the paint and it shows that it's difficult to read it it's now time to open this Stone envelope the lid weighs several tons and the expert skill of workers who are used to this type of operation will be required to open this precious sarcophagus without damaging it the moment before I look this could be the

best moment in my life as an archaeologist and after an effort of several minutes oh o wonderful it's an exceptional [Music] Discovery hiashi the man who was laid to rest here was buried in a Sumptuous manner his entire body is decked with magnificent jewelry zwas realizes that the mummy has fallen apart but some items glimmer under the beam of his torch to the archaeologist surprise it is indeed gold this is one of the most beautiful discoveries he has ever made on this site for this person to put the golden leaves around him maybe it would

be damaged then what they did they had the sticks to cover the sticks with the layers of gold then the guy could show himself golden in the afterlife then there is no sticks here that he can hold this is not a type of a stick that he used in his life to be walking at all gold fascinated the Egyptians that is why the wealthiest members of society wanted to take it with them to the afterlife in a way gold is the Flesh of the Gods it's yellow it glows it's rot resistant and it reflects the

sun rays the Egyptian world had strong ties with the sun which was divinized as the god raw and the sun emits its Rays onto earth and its Rays fertilize the land but gold was still very rare and hard to get so in the Old Kingdom we know they had gold artifacts but to find something now in a tomb made of gold from the Old Kingdom is just such a beautiful and remarkable disc Discovery The Mummy is also adorned with very beautiful beaded finery whose purpose was to dress the deceased in the afterlife you have this

beautiful color with the blue uh beads on the chest and you have this built that maybe was made of uh turquoise Zas also spots fragments of broken White Stone by the mummy's head it broken for Limestone or AER oh Limestone Limestone yeah Limestone the person wanted to have this beautiful headrest under him then he can rest peacefully for the afterlife it's beautiful to establish the mommy's date with Precision they would have to move it but it's much too fragile and could disintegrate I will ask the workmen to make the lid down then we can and

make him to live in the afterlife peacefully but we can say because the cemetery is dated to Dynasty 5 and Dynasty 6 we can say that this mommy is dated back at least 4,200 years ago the beginning of Dynasty 6 this is a historic Discovery for Egyptian archaeology this is something important when the people will see it they will be amazed because this also could be one of the oldest mummies mumi covered with gold before our very eyes this incredible find has started a new chapter in the history of ancient Egypt as it's one of

the oldest Egyptian mummies ever discovered the man who was buried here lived during the Old Kingdom and he decided to be buried near jer's Pyramid built by imotep a few centuries before Z's investigation is taking him closer to the great architect [Music] it's the last days of this excavation campaign archaeologists nmin Mam and Mohamed fi have decided to open a tomb that was Unearthed not long ago no one has had the opportunity to study it yet as its entrance is barred by Stones this Tom is situated in a part of the necropolis that dates back

to the Old Kingdom this is their last hope of finally finding the visier utep's resting place yeah come down take care take care when you come [Music] down the step of his stairs is very [Music] destroyed very difficult a few seconds later once they've adjusted to the dim light the two egyptologists are finally able to make something out their efforts have not been in vain oh W what do you what do you see a small breast shamber and a good for sagus oh yes what's this St oh seal this is a seal for the mortar

from yeah the bowder from bder Limestone lione the tomb is still sealed which raises hopes of discovering Treasures hidden inside the sarcophagus but before taking any further action the archaeologists want to make sure there's no risk of a cave in the ancient Egyptian fail this to support because the the the local limstone is very weak The Rock here is very weak yeah yeah yeah I think it's danger it's very danger here yeah so they are exploring this burial chamber with Extreme Caution however they're in for a bad surprise they notice that the tomb lid is

broken which means the sarcophagus was looted unable to raise the lid weighing several tons the robbers made a hole to remove the valuable [Music] objects nmin and Mohammad will have to make do with what the robbers Left Behind inside the is some UHS or or we found what can we see here yeah from the Rian yeah yeah yeah oh inside some debris mhm and some oons there might have been gold or precious amulets in this sarcophagus but if that was the case the robbers took it all away and they also destroyed all the clues that

could have helped identify the deceased so the two archaeologists decide to leave the mummy to its Eternal Slumber they'll have to wait till the next excavation season to maybe bring to light otep's resting place because tonight the members of zah haas's team are putting away their tools and carefully closing the tombs they haven't as yet got round to exploring and each of them hold the promise of new discoveries about ancient Egypt while the archaeologists have found dozens of tombs they haven't come across any signs of antiquity's most famous architect tombs in fonic times in Egypt

are on the edge of the desert so they're surrounded by sand and unless you are constantly brushing the sand away they will disappear so I think motp was one of these structures his tomb was one of those once impressive monuments that disappeared simply because it was wasn't being actively maintained in the 4th Century ad Christianity reached Egypt and wiped out the civilization of the Pharaohs by Banning Pagan Cults the location of otep's Tomb may have been lost but zwas defends a different theory that is causing a stir among the egyptologists my opinion is buried inside

the step pyramid of Z what's interesting is seal imprints with imhotep's name associated to jer's name were found in the burial chambers of the step pyramid despite the challenges the Quest for otep's Tomb hasn't been abandoned and the researchers keep amassing Clues to maybe one day unveil the resting place of that Genius of antiquity the discovery of otep's Tomb will have gigantic media repercussions because it will be a major Discovery in the field of egyptology the person who makes that Discovery will make the headlines of newspapers across the world that's for sure and in fact

if after centuries of research that tomb hasn't been uncovered yet it might be because imotep never wished to be found all tombs had been restored in Antiquity and this why as a genius architect he will never buil his tomb to be in the eyes or to be in front of the eyes of Thieves to steal it he will hide it in a way that no one really can find it and I really believe I am the one who will [Music] discover excavations have revealed Treasures buried in the desert sand all the finds made at Sakura

will enable researchers to enhance their knowledge about ancient Egyptians zaha's final quest doesn't end here for as long as his strength allows He will carry on trying to reach his and all Egyptians Holy Grail the tomb of IM is still hidden under the sand I always know and I always say you never know what the sand of Egypt May hide of secets Zas knows it the person who finds the resting place of one of the greatest architects ever will go down in history like Howard Carter when he revealed Tuten Common's fantastic treasure to the entire

world in 1922 every year new exploration techniques are developed to assist the egyptologist in their mission those Innovations help them to carry out increasingly accurate research they should allow them one day to unveil part of the mystery that shrouds imotep as well as other icons that ancient Egypt keep secretly concealed beneath the desert sand [Music]