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Season 1

  • S01E01 Secrets of the Mega-Tomb

    • June 21, 2021
    • Smithsonian Channel

    Follow Egyptian archaeologists on the hunt for answers after finding a vast burial chamber filled with over 100 coffins.

  • S01E02 Mystery of the Painted Mummy

    • June 28, 2021
    • Smithsonian Channel

    Follow Egyptologists as they raise, open, and run high-tech exams on a painted coffin and mummy over 2,500 years old.

  • S01E03 Tomb of the Pyramid Judge

    • July 12, 2021
    • Smithsonian Channel

    Egyptian archaeologists made global news when they came upon two massive tombs in Saqqara that date back more than 2,500 years. But they didn't stop there. They also discovered an unfinished tomb that appears to predate the other mega-tombs by around two millennia. It belonged to a prominent Judicial Tallyman named Pinomis and his family but exploring the burial chamber has raised many questions. Who was this judge? How did he achieve his wealth and status? And why did he choose to spend his eternal afterlife in a tomb only half-built?

  • S01E04 Rise of the Greeks

    • July 19, 2021
    • Smithsonian Channel

    Follow archaeologists as they examine coffins from Egypt's Greek Period, recently unearthed in the tombs of Saqqara.