Tomb Hunters

It was an archaeological find that became global news. An extraordinary mega-tomb, filled with the largest concentration of coffins ever unearthed in Saqqara, Egypt. This four-part series places you at the site to witness this ground-breaking discovery as it happened and follows Egyptologists as they try to determine why all of these mummies were buried together and what this ancient cemetery can tell us about the Egyptian civilization's way of death 2,500 years ago.

Genre: Documentary,

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Country: United States of America,

Type: tv

Season: 1

Episode: N/A

Duration: 45 minutes

Release: 2021-06-21

Rating: 7

Season 1 - Tomb Hunters
2021-06-21
Egyptian archaeologists discover a vast burial chamber filled with over a hundred coffins. Explore this giant tomb and find out what can it reveal about the Egyptian way of death.
2021-06-28
Follow Egyptologists as they raise, open, and run high-tech exams on a painted coffin and mummy over 2,500 years old.
2021-07-12
With unprecedented access, we follow archaeologists as they reveal secrets hidden in a tomb from the Age of the Pyramids.
2021-07-19
Follow archaeologists as they examine coffins from Egypt's Greek Period, recently unearthed in the tombs of Saqqara.