Two tombs are carefully explored and excavated. One tomb has a single occupant while the other has around 30 individuals. They both give new insights about Egypt under Pharaoh Amenhotep III, who was the father of Akhenaten and grandfather to Tutankhamun.

The Mystery Tombs

Dallas Campbell

Secrets and Treasures

Today the Colossi of Memnon are all that are visible of the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III, but many more sculpture fragments and architectural remains are being uncovered and restored. The life of the pharaoh's harem is explored and many exciting discoveries connected with him are explored.

In 2011 a team from the University of Basel made two astonishing discoveries in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. By chance they came across a new tomb that was the first to contain a body since the discovery of Tutankhamun. Then they discovered that the tomb beside it, which had never been excavated before, held the bodies of around 50 people. But who were all the people in these two linked tombs? This film follows the archaeological detective story to uncover the answer. It pursues the trail that leads to one of Egypt's greatest pharaohs, Amenhotep III - and to the women he was close to. And the film also reveals the astonishing project behind the re-emergence nearby of the largest temple ever built in ancient Egypt - the lost mortuary temple of the same pharaoh, Amenhotep III.

The Mystery Tombs

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