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.

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A mission to discover and re-create unexcavated worlds still hidden beneath the earth.

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The Bible is both a religious and historical work, but how much is myth and how much is history?

Journalist and writer Graham Hancock travels the globe hunting for evidence of mysterious, lost civi...

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Unearthing the glittering, golden treasures of the pharaohs.

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