WEBVTT - S03 Episode 4: From Eternity to Here 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:14.320 It is the year ten. Along the banks of the 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:18.840 river are Sits, the majestic city of war Set, the 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:21.880 largest in all the land, and capital of the mighty 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:26.880 Kingdom of Karset, the world leading beacon of knowledge, industry, 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:31.280 and culture. It is the year ten because it is 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:35.240 the tenth year of their king's reign. It is also 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:39.479 his last, for on the edge of the city, inside 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:44.159 a grand stone temple, their king, a young man of nineteen, 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:49.280 lies dead. With his death comes great uncertainty for a 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:53.040 nation only recently restored under the watchful eye of the 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:57.560 great god Armun, though none of that matters for him now. 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:02.040 It is not the end by any as is well 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:05.600 understood by all who are gathered by his side. His 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:09.000 death is but the first step in the ultimate journey, 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:13.800 a journey that, with the correct preparations, will see his 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:18.039 spirit in human form, carried to the other side and 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:23.120 voyage into eternity to walk forever among the gods in 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:31.680 the golden fields of Aru. It begins with the ex cerebration, 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:35.680 the washing of the body, followed by the puncturing of 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:39.160 a hole through the back of the nasal cavity, into 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.640 which a seven inch tool fashioned from the stem of 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.640 palm leaf with a small hook carved into the end 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:50.640 is inserted. Since the brain is thought to serve no function, 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:55.240 the embalmer extracts what they can before pouring a solution 0:01:55.320 --> 0:02:02.240 into the cavity to dissolve what is left. Next, the lungs, liver, stomach, 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:06.280 and intestines are removed through a small incision cut into 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:09.880 the left side of the torso, before being cleansed and 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:15.720 packed into naturen salts alongside the body. Forty days later, 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.880 as the sweet smoke of incense fills the room, the 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:23.960 desiccated body is smothered in a pungent concoction of herbs, 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:28.960 oil and resin, before being carefully wrapped in linen, into 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:32.280 which a number of totems for the gods are inserted, 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:38.120 all the better to aid him in his journey. Priests 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:43.080 solemnly chant spells read from papyrus scrolls known to day 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:46.800 as the Book of the Dead, urging Osiris, the great 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.640 god of the underworld, to take their king from this 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:54.400 mortal realm and lead him safely to paradise. As an 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:58.400 exquisite mask of solid gold inlaid with precious stones and 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:03.359 glass is gent he fitted onto his head. His lifeless 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:07.640 body now seeming almost alive, as two bright eyes of 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:13.240 obsidian and quartz stare back into the room. On the 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:18.520 forehead stands the Eureus, a vigilant cobra rearing up to 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:25.560 protect its master. Fifteen days later, and this newly bejeweled 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:30.079 body is transferred to a coffin of solid gold, encasing 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:34.040 the king in the flesh of the gods. This, in 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:38.400 turn is placed in two further coffins before being lowered 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:42.720 into a vast stone sarcophagus, all covered over in more 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:47.720 spells for the dead. A short time later, under the 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.800 searing heat of the great orb in the sky, the 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:55.160 very eye of the great god amun Ra, the funerary 0:03:55.200 --> 0:04:00.680 procession makes its way across the desert, the tort sinuous 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:04.120 bodies of the king's slaves strained with the weight of 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:07.720 the three tons sarcophagus. As it is dragged across the 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:14.280 sand toward the Great and Majestic acropolis, two vast giants 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:19.000 rear into view mighty sandstone statues of the King's grandfather 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:24.680 towering sixty feet high above the procession, their eyes following 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:28.680 the sarcophagus as it moves across the dusty land, until 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.479 finally stopping at the entrance of a small tomb carved 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:36.839 into the rock. Here, the body of the king is 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:40.480 delivered into the ground as the final spells are encanted, 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:45.480 and his body left for eternity. The tomb blocked, sealed, 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.719 and filled in with rubble to prevent his body from 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:54.280 being disturbed. For most the journey to paradise was a 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:59.040 dangerous and terrifying ordeal, requiring the completion of a treacherous 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:05.600 gauntlet while being chased by grotesque entities. For kings and queens, however, 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:11.160 since they were considered virtual deities themselves, success was all 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:17.279 but guaranteed, provided, of course, their bodies remained preserved and 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:22.880 undisturbed for all eternity. And so we must leave our 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:27.240 young king in peace, or risk condemning his spirit to 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:32.760 a lifetime of restlessness. After all, we wouldn't want to 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:37.760 come between a king and his paradise, would we. You're 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:52.400 listening to Unexplained, and I'm Richard McClane smith. Having left 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:56.320 our king, we returned to the surface to find three thousand, 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:02.000 two hundred years have passed and much has changed. The 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:07.400 Eye of amun Ra now seemingly closed, forever known instead 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:11.800 as merely the Sun. The once great city of war 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:19.200 Set transformed into al Uksur, also known as luxor that 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:23.880 Mighty River are more commonly referred to as the knee 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:29.680 Il or River Nile. The ancient kingdom of Karset and 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:37.240 leading seat of civilization known of course as Misron or Egypt. 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:43.400 Though much remains of the majestic necropolis, known today as 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.760 the Valley of the Kings, the paean to a once 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:52.080 mighty civilization is now little more than a museum, reduced 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:56.960 to rubble and dust, a valley of lifeless things where 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:00.400 once the effigies of Titans passed as shell would have 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:04.320 it compelled Ye Mighty to look on their works and despair. 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:10.200 Now only their weathered and crumbling statues remain a reminder 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:16.400 of distant, unknowable and long forgotten people. Even their language 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:18.840 would have all but vanished were it not for the 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:22.920 discovery in seventeen ninety nine of a large broken tablet 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:28.160 etched all over in words and symbols. The stone was 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.400 dug up by French soldiers stationed at the fort of 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:35.920 kite Bay, near the city of Rashid, also known as Rosetta, 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:40.880 on Egypt's North Coast. The writing on the Rosetta Stone, 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:45.560 although little more than a mundane decree, would ultimately turn 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:50.200 out to be among the most important discoveries in archeology. 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:56.800 Composed of three languages, hieroglyphics, ancient Greek, and Demotic, a 0:07:56.880 --> 0:08:00.720 languished thought to have evolved from hieroglyphics, the writing on 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.880 the stone proved to be nothing less than the key 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:09.120 to unlocking the language of the ancient Egyptians. Roughly twenty 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:15.120 years after its discovery, French linguist Jean Francois Champollion cracked 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.240 the code, and with a very particular kind of magic, 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:24.080 an entire civilization had been resurrected, and with it came 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:28.160 a sudden resurgence of interest in this newly decipherable culture. 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:35.400 Champollion's discovery heralded the birth of modern Egyptology, and goes 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.760 some way to explaining why. In nineteen o seven, on 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:43.320 the outskirts of Luxor, we find an Englishman sweating profusely 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:46.440 in a three piece suit, next to his wife in 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:50.800 equally ill suiting clothing, her expensive jewelry glinting in the 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:55.600 sun as they watch workers in long white thobs scrape 0:08:55.600 --> 0:09:00.719 and dig at the ground before them. The man is 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:06.400 George Edward Stanhope Molineux Herbert, otherwise known as the fifth 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:11.480 Earl of Carnarvon. Born in eighteen sixty six, at the 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:15.920 age of thirteen, George, like all Carnarvins before him, was 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:20.960 sent to Eton College, the nation's most exclusive independent boarding school. 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:25.720 Despite being an academic failure such as the way of things, 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:31.840 he was nonetheless granted a place at Cambridge University in 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:35.600 eighteen ninety. After the death of his father at the 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:40.200 age of twenty four, George inherited his title along with 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:44.760 a number of properties, including the family stately home, High 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:51.000 Claire Castle, a vast and sprawling seventeenth century mansion and 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:54.760 five thousand acre estate in the County of Hampshire. High 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.680 Claire is perhaps best known as the home of the 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:03.680 Crawley family from the wildly accessful period drama Downton Abbey. 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.920 Within a matter of years, George, who has a ponchont 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:11.520 for automobiles and horse racing, has spent most of his 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:18.640 inheritance racking up vast gambling debts. In the process. Spotting 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:24.160 a fix, Lord Carnarvon proposes to Almina Wanwell, the illegitimate 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:28.080 daughter of the banker Alfred de Rothschid, and the couple 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:33.200 married soon after in eighteen ninety five. The resultant settlement 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.559 provided by Rothschard will be enough to keep the rakish 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:40.040 Carnarvon from ever having to worry about anything as tiresome 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:44.880 as getting a job. A son, Harry and daughter Evelyn 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:49.800 arrived soon after, in eighteen ninety eight and nineteen o one, respectively. 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:55.640 Carnarvon's interest in Egypt had been slim at best until 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.760 he is advised by a doctor to begin wintering in 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:02.640 the newly fashionable Low after suffering a near fatal car 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:08.240 crash in Germany. Bored and alienated from his cars, he 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.800 soon finds himself drawn to the intriguing world of archaeology 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:16.560 and the thought of finding treasure in the desert, wondering 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.120 if he too, might not be able to find some 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:23.160 of his own. It was a decision he would not 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:39.760 live to regret. In the early nineteenth century, there was 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:44.800 one Egyptian treasure more sought after than any other. What 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:48.640 drew most archaeologists to the country at that time was 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:52.679 the valley situated northwest of Luxor, known as the Valley 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:56.600 of the Kings, the final resting place of over sixty pharaohs, 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:00.840 nobles and royalty, each buried with a mountain of riches 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:06.600 to take with them to the afterlife. By nineteen oh seven, however, 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:10.520 the valley had been almost completely plundered, with many of 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:16.480 the tombs having been robbed thousands of years previously. Of 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:20.040 all the pharaohs buried in the valley, only two tombs 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:24.720 were thought to remain undiscovered, that of horem Heap, the 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:28.480 last ruler of the Eighteenth dynasty, and that of a 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:33.480 little known pharaoh, also of the eighteenth dynasty, a mysterious 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:38.640 boy king known as two tank Armon. It is this 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.480 that has brought Lord Carnarvon to the edge of the 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:45.320 desert in his thick cotton suit, swatting flies as he 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:50.600 watches his workers scrape fruitlessly in the dirt. After a 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:54.000 few years of little success, it becomes clear to the 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:58.760 hopeless amateur that some expertise is needed, and on the 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.640 advice of an acquaintance, Carnarvan decides to pair up with 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:09.280 another Englishman named Howard Carter born in Kensington, London in 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:13.200 eighteen seventy four. Carter had first traveled to Egypt at 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.120 the age of seventeen, having fallen in love with the 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:20.240 idea of it as a boy. Working initially as an 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:25.920 artist sketching ancient artifacts for archeologists to study, Carter had 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:28.960 soon become somewhat of an expert on the subject himself, 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.280 and had, by the age of twenty five, risen to 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:38.520 the position of Inspector General of Monuments for Upper Egypt. However, 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:42.920 in nineteen o five, Carter was forced to resign, having 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:46.040 taken the side of local site guards, allowing them to 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:51.319 defend themselves against a group of drunk tourists. Cut adrift, 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:55.800 Carter feared his days as an archeologist were over when 0:13:55.840 --> 0:14:01.080 Lord Carnarvon approached him in nineteen oh seven. Instantly taken 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:05.839 by the young archeologist, perhaps recognizing something of his roguish self, 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:12.160 Carnavin offered Carter the chance to work for him. Any 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:15.800 hope of finding a pharaoh's tomb, however, was hampered by 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:18.480 the fact that only one person was permitted to dig 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:25.040 in the Valley of the Kings. Like Carnarvon, Theodore Davies 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.680 had been lured to Egypt by the thrill of the chase. 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:32.400 The wealthy American lawyer had secured the permit for the 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.920 valley back in nineteen o two and had shown little 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:40.160 sign of giving it up since, convinced that the undiscovered 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:44.240 tombs of teutunk Aamen and hoream Heap were lurking there. 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:49.920 In nineteen o eight, Carnarvon and Carter perceived the devastating 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:54.760 news that hoream Heep's tomb has been discovered. Though little 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.520 is lost when it is found to have been plundered 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:02.920 many years before. Worse is to follow, however, with news 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:06.720 of tutank Aarmon's tomb being discovered a short time later. 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:12.560 Davies's team had been excavating a sight near the tomb 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:16.520 of the nineteenth dynasty pharaoh SETI the First when they 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:22.920 came across it. After careful excavations, a dozen sealed jars 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:27.720 were discovered, containing, amongst other minor treasures, a series of 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:33.120 linen bandages bearing the name of tutank Aarmen. Everything else, 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:37.200 according to Davies, had likely been stolen by tomb robbers 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:40.120 shortly after the king had first been laid to rest. 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:45.120 Davies promptly made an announcement to the press, and in 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:51.280 nineteen fourteen published a detailed account of his findings, but 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:57.720 something needles at Carter. Davies had undoubtedly found artifacts related 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:01.600 to tutank Aarmen, and those such objects were often found 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.480 near a tomb, they tended to be buried in a 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:09.840 separate room, away from the main body. Believing he had 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:14.360 discovered everything of any significance in the valley, in nineteen fourteen, 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:19.640 a victorious but exhausted Davies relinquished his permit and returned 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:24.400 to his home in the United States. Perhaps at this 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:29.920 point Carter and Lord Carnarvon should have taken heed. Although 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:33.800 he may not have found Teuton Carmen's body, those rags 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:37.320 of linen had been buried close to it since, having 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:41.040 come into contact with it during the burial process. They 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:45.160 were considered a part of it. To disturb them was 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:49.000 to disturb the body as a whole, and within a 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:55.400 year the man who found them would be dead. Believing 0:16:55.480 --> 0:17:00.600 Davies to be mistaken about his find Carter convinced to 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:02.800 take on his permit so they can look for the 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:09.600 tomb themselves. Within weeks of securing it, however, dark clouds 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:15.280 were gathering two gunshots on the streets of Sarajevo start 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:19.160 a diplomatic cascade that culminates in the outbreak of war, 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:23.120 the brutal and bloody, likes of which the world has 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:28.399 never seen. Almost as if it were a warning, Carter 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.639 and Carnarvon are forced to put their efforts on hold. 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.879 Carnarvon returns home to manage his estate, though in truth 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.879 his wife Almina shoulders the brunt of it, helping to 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:45.760 transform High Clear Castle into a military hospital, working as 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:50.119 a nurse for the duration of the war. Carter is 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:53.639 also fortunate to escape the fighting, being employed as a 0:17:53.640 --> 0:18:00.080 diplomatic courier and translator for the British government in Egypt. 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:04.920 In fifteen, Carter contacts the New York Metropolitan Museums Director 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:10.000 of Egyptology, Herbert Winlock, to discuss his theory about Davies's mistake. 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:15.199 Winlock is convinced too it isn't the tomb that he 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:21.720 has discovered that is still out there. A desperate Carter 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:25.639 and Carnarvin can only sit back and wait in frustration. 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:38.440 Back at High Claire, invigorated by his adventures abroad, Lord 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:44.919 Carnarvon is becoming increasingly fascinated with the occult The mythology 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:48.320 of ancient Egypt had long held a fascination for purveyors 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:52.960 of esotericism, which was only intensified by the resurgent interest 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:59.240 in Egyptology. Many secret orders, most notably the Freemasons, were 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:03.600 influenced by the mysteries of the ancient Egyptians, incorporating many 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:07.320 of their spells and beliefs into their rights and symbolism. 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:12.200 It was the mythology of the great Egyptian gods of Osiris, 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:16.240 Isis and Horus that Alister Crowley would draw on when 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:21.199 establishing his own esoteric order, having apparently communicated with an 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:26.040 ancient Egyptian entity in Cairo in nineteen o five. It 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:29.760 is unlikely that Lord Carnarvon, being a man of high society, 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:35.680 was unaware of such connections. For his part, Carnarvon, who 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:37.679 was thought to have been a member of the London 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:42.600 Spiritual Alliance, would regularly hold seances in his grand family home, 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:48.520 dedicating one room, the East Anglia Room, especially for the practice. 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:53.119 Carnarvon's son Henry, spoke of one story that occurred in 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:56.120 the spring of nineteen nineteen, whilst he was home from 0:19:56.160 --> 0:20:01.680 military duty in Mesopotamia. Having invited to attend a seance 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:06.159 along with his sister Evelyn and Howard Carter, amongst others. 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:09.560 Henry had watched in astonishment as one of the guests 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:13.000 entered into a trance and began to speak a strange, 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:19.600 unrecognizable language. It wasn't strange to Carter, however, who slightly unnerved, 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:25.359 recognized it as Coptic, the language of modern Egypt. Only 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:28.560 the woman speaking it had never before uttered a word 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:33.560 of it herself. Later, the group would witness a vase 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:41.560 of flowers levitating above the table, with a form of 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:46.480 peace being declared. In nineteen eighteen, Carnarvon and Carter reconvene 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:50.960 their work in the Valley of the Kings. Four years later, 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:55.359 having diligently and meticulously supervised the clearing of most of 0:20:55.359 --> 0:21:00.800 the valley, Carter had found nothing, and carnarvin money was 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:05.520 beginning to run out by the end of an especially 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:10.239 barren season of excavations. Having long ago grown bored by 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:15.080 the laborious, mundane realities of his exotic hobby, Lord Carnarvan 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:21.760 summons Carter to a meeting at Hyclair. On arrival, Carnarvin 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:25.040 informs the tired and broken Carter that he no longer 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:31.639 wishes to finance this fool's errand in desperation, Carter requests 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:35.240 the lord's permission to dig for one final season, with 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:38.040 only a small section of the valley left to investigate, 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:44.680 offering to cover all costs himself. Stirred by his friend's commitment, 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:48.399 and perhaps hearing the voice of his father, who had 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:52.399 never thought his son would amount to anything, Carnarvin changes 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:57.560 his mind and agrees to one more year, and so 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:01.399 it is that Carter returns to Egypt in October nineteen 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:14.359 twenty two for one final push. In late October, with 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:18.320 digging due to start again the following week, Carter travels 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:21.679 to Cairo to help an antique dealer friend inspect a 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:24.920 number of antiques that have recently come into his possession. 0:22:26.480 --> 0:22:29.240 He has just arrived at the shop when his attention 0:22:29.400 --> 0:22:32.640 is caught by the sweet, lilting sound of bird song. 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:39.040 Strangely uplifted and moved by the melody, Carter finds himself 0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:42.399 stepping into the cafe next door to locate its source, 0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:46.720 discovering it to be a bright yellow canary in an 0:22:46.800 --> 0:22:51.720 ornate cage. Unable to forget the bird's song, that night, 0:22:52.520 --> 0:22:55.720 He returns to the cafe the following morning, and with 0:22:55.760 --> 0:22:59.520 the help of the antique dealer's assistant, convinces the proprietor 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:04.879 to say him the melodious canary. Arriving back at his 0:23:04.920 --> 0:23:08.520 home in Luxor, Carter is greeted by his house staff, 0:23:09.040 --> 0:23:11.679 who declare the bird a welcome addition to the house 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:17.479 and a sure sign of good fortune. The next morning, 0:23:18.119 --> 0:23:21.600 Carter rode up to the Valley of Kings, its silent 0:23:21.680 --> 0:23:26.679 majesty and hidden secrets, never failing to move him there. 0:23:26.920 --> 0:23:30.240 Gazing out across the pale, low lying peaks before him, 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:36.520 he knew this was his last chance. After five years 0:23:36.520 --> 0:23:40.240 of excavations, Carter and his team had only one small 0:23:40.320 --> 0:23:44.320 area left to investigate, a triangle of land to the 0:23:44.359 --> 0:23:48.640 northeast corner of the tomb of Rameses the Sixth, mostly 0:23:48.680 --> 0:23:51.439 taken up by the ruins of some stone huts that 0:23:51.560 --> 0:23:57.040 had housed the slaves who built Rameses' tomb. Work began 0:23:57.119 --> 0:24:01.200 on November first, and by the third the last remnants 0:24:01.200 --> 0:24:04.440 of the huts had been removed, leaving only the three 0:24:04.480 --> 0:24:07.760 feet of earth they were constructed on, and below that 0:24:08.359 --> 0:24:13.040 the bedrock of the valley At some point the following day, 0:24:13.720 --> 0:24:17.439 having eventually cleared away the mounds of earth, one of 0:24:17.480 --> 0:24:22.120 the workers noticed something strange about the ground, how oddly 0:24:22.119 --> 0:24:27.200 flat it seemed compared to the surrounding bedrock. Scraping away 0:24:27.240 --> 0:24:30.360 at the dirt and sand, he couldn't believe what he 0:24:30.440 --> 0:24:35.480 was looking at. It wasn't just bedrock, it was carved stone. 0:24:37.680 --> 0:24:40.480 As Carter rode up to the sight that morning, he 0:24:40.600 --> 0:24:46.160 sensed immediately that something was up. 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Carter 0:27:21.680 --> 0:27:25.240 stoops down into the chamber and shining a torch onto 0:27:25.240 --> 0:27:29.160 the plaster, finds the mark of the Royal Necropolis stamped 0:27:29.200 --> 0:27:32.840 into it the clear image of a Nubis, the jackal 0:27:33.240 --> 0:27:37.440 god of the dead, with nine characters kneeling below, their 0:27:37.560 --> 0:27:43.679 arms held back and bound by rope. Whatever this was, 0:27:44.240 --> 0:27:47.560 at the very least it had been created by royal appointment. 0:27:49.560 --> 0:27:52.000 That it was found hidden under the tomb of a 0:27:52.080 --> 0:27:57.000 twentieth dynasty pharaoh would suggest it hadn't been seen for 0:27:57.119 --> 0:28:02.600 at least three thousand years. Taking a small chisel and hammer, 0:28:03.160 --> 0:28:06.919 Carter made a slight peep hole through the plaster and 0:28:07.000 --> 0:28:11.719 peered through it to the passageway beyond. Though full of rubble, 0:28:12.119 --> 0:28:15.000 he could clearly see its stretching some way into the rock, 0:28:15.920 --> 0:28:19.080 but that was as far as he could go. With 0:28:19.200 --> 0:28:23.360 darkness approaching. Having made his most exciting discovery in over 0:28:23.440 --> 0:28:27.359 twenty years of work, Carter ordered the stairwell to be 0:28:27.400 --> 0:28:31.360 filled in once more, and instructed his most trusted workmen 0:28:31.520 --> 0:28:36.959 to guard their find. Unable to proceed any further without 0:28:37.000 --> 0:28:41.640 Carnarvon and the supervision of the egypt Antiquities Department, Carter 0:28:41.800 --> 0:28:45.440 composes a telegram to his friend and benefactor the next day, 0:28:46.160 --> 0:28:50.040 accompanied once again by the bright melodies of his pet Canary, 0:28:51.160 --> 0:28:54.680 almost as if it had become reanimated. At the returning 0:28:54.680 --> 0:28:59.840 of the earth to the excavated tomb. Back at High Claire, 0:29:00.480 --> 0:29:04.000 Carnarvon has just returned from walking his beloved dog, Susy, 0:29:04.720 --> 0:29:09.320 when he is greeted by his butler carrying Carter's telegram. 0:29:09.440 --> 0:29:14.000 At last have made wonderful discovery in the valley, It reads, 0:29:14.720 --> 0:29:30.760 A magnificent tomb with seals intact. Congratulations. Carter is forced 0:29:30.760 --> 0:29:33.600 to wait over two weeks before Carnarvon can make it 0:29:33.640 --> 0:29:37.320 back to Luxor, arriving with his daughter Evelyn on November 0:29:37.320 --> 0:29:41.680 the twenty third. Two days later, under the watchful eye 0:29:41.720 --> 0:29:46.320 of Carnarvon and the Chief Inspector of Antiquities, Carter breaks 0:29:46.320 --> 0:29:51.560 through the first entrance to expose the passageway beyond. Over 0:29:51.560 --> 0:29:55.600 the next few days, the excavators work tirelessly to clear 0:29:55.640 --> 0:30:00.160 out the tunnel, until finally, twenty five feet in they 0:30:00.240 --> 0:30:04.120 hit another sealed entrance that also appears to be intact 0:30:04.720 --> 0:30:10.880 and marked with the seal of Tooton Carmen. Moments later, Carter, 0:30:11.160 --> 0:30:15.080 Carnavin and his daughter Evelyn stand on the precipice of 0:30:15.240 --> 0:30:19.200 quite possibly one of the greatest rediscoveries in the history 0:30:19.320 --> 0:30:24.200 of human kind. Barely able to keep his hands steady, 0:30:24.840 --> 0:30:28.440 a trembling Carter positions his chisel to the upper left 0:30:28.440 --> 0:30:31.680 hand corner and makes a tiny breach in the plaster. 0:30:33.640 --> 0:30:37.160 Holding a candle up to the hole, he tests for 0:30:37.200 --> 0:30:41.720 any toxic gases before widening it just enough so that 0:30:41.760 --> 0:30:46.640 he might peer through it. Taking the candle, he extends 0:30:46.680 --> 0:30:53.640 his arm, pulls himself up to take a look, and gasps, well, 0:30:54.520 --> 0:31:02.240 can you see anything, asks Carnavin. Yes, replies Carter, wonderful things. 0:31:04.400 --> 0:31:06.640 It had taken a moment for his eyes to adjust 0:31:06.720 --> 0:31:10.719 to the darkness, the candle flame almost going out as 0:31:10.800 --> 0:31:13.760 a sudden rush of warm air escaped from the chamber. 0:31:14.960 --> 0:31:18.720 Having adapted to the light, Carter had stood completely dumb 0:31:18.760 --> 0:31:21.480 struck as there on the other side of the wall, 0:31:22.040 --> 0:31:26.680 strange figures were beginning to emerge from the darkness, life 0:31:26.680 --> 0:31:31.800 size statues of men, bizarrely shaped animals, and everywhere the 0:31:31.920 --> 0:31:37.000 unrelenting glint of gold. They had at last rediscovered the 0:31:37.120 --> 0:31:44.400 untouched tomb of King tutank Carmen. Moments later, a young 0:31:44.480 --> 0:31:47.720