Unknown: The Lost Pyramid

00:29:29,809 --> 00:29:34,731 When I open the TV, I see foreign archeologists. 305 00:29:34,814 --> 00:29:36,792 <i>Over the years, the search at Saqqara...</i> 306 00:29:36,816 --> 00:29:38,234 All the interviews, 307 00:29:39,402 --> 00:29:41,196 never see an Egyptian. 308 00:29:43,406 --> 00:29:45,366 And that also killed me. 309 00:29:48,203 --> 00:29:49,704 Foreigners were ruling. 310 00:29:50,872 --> 00:29:53,458 But I said, "We to need to compete with them." 311 00:29:53,541 --> 00:29:55,084 "We need to be good like them." 312 00:29:57,045 --> 00:30:00,298 I wanted, I was planning. 313 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:04,969 "One day I'm going to make a difference in Egyptology." 314 00:30:05,053 --> 00:30:08,890 "And one day, my name will be written in history." 315 00:30:12,602 --> 00:30:13,686 And it happened. 316 00:30:15,897 --> 00:30:19,901 From the beginning of my career as Assistant Inspector, 317 00:30:19,984 --> 00:30:23,154 going up in every stage. 318 00:30:23,905 --> 00:30:25,365 Inspector, Chief Inspector, 319 00:30:25,448 --> 00:30:27,283 Director, Director General, 320 00:30:27,367 --> 00:30:30,662 First Secretary of the State, Head of Antiquities Minister... 321 00:30:30,745 --> 00:30:35,291 All my dreams, all my life, became true. 322 00:30:37,252 --> 00:30:41,673 Archaeology in the past was like <i>Raiders of the Lost Ark.</i> 323 00:30:42,423 --> 00:30:47,053 Putting axes, taking sand, put it away, we found a tomb! 324 00:30:48,471 --> 00:30:51,391 But now archaeology is completely different. 325 00:30:52,141 --> 00:30:54,435 Archaeology is science. 326 00:30:57,438 --> 00:30:59,691 It's not digging to find the tomb, no! 327 00:31:00,525 --> 00:31:01,860 It's digging to find history, 328 00:31:02,861 --> 00:31:04,237 and to rewrite history. 329 00:31:09,242 --> 00:31:14,330 One of the biggest mysteries is a time over 4,000 years ago. 330 00:31:15,373 --> 00:31:19,752 A time that's perhaps as important to ancient Egypt 331 00:31:19,836 --> 00:31:22,922 as the Renaissance is to European history. 332 00:31:25,675 --> 00:31:27,677 The Old Kingdom. 333 00:31:28,177 --> 00:31:30,972 But that page of history has been lost. 334 00:31:31,931 --> 00:31:35,894 After the Old Kingdom, people began to rob pyramids and tombs. 335 00:31:38,938 --> 00:31:41,232 Finding anything that survived 336 00:31:41,316 --> 00:31:45,278 over 4,000 years of decay and looting is difficult. 337 00:31:58,583 --> 00:32:01,878 To this day, we've uncovered 10 tombs. 338 00:32:07,300 --> 00:32:09,427 Finding this number of tombs 339 00:32:10,553 --> 00:32:13,264 means that this is the beginning for us. 340 00:32:17,060 --> 00:32:19,520 We are expecting to find and reveal 341 00:32:19,604 --> 00:32:22,941 more and more of these tombs here in this area. 342 00:32:36,537 --> 00:32:37,580 Oh God! 343 00:32:38,831 --> 00:32:39,958 Oh my God! 344 00:32:41,334 --> 00:32:42,334 What a beauty! 345 00:32:46,089 --> 00:32:48,508 We're getting updates in the office 346 00:32:48,591 --> 00:32:51,052 via texts or calls. 347 00:32:51,135 --> 00:32:52,762 Suddenly there's... 348 00:32:54,138 --> 00:32:55,848 "No, you really need to come and see this." 349 00:33:10,196 --> 00:33:12,532 You found it in the scene like this? 350 00:33:13,866 --> 00:33:14,993 God! 351 00:33:16,244 --> 00:33:17,453 This is beautiful! 352 00:33:20,123 --> 00:33:22,125 Tori! Look at the color! 353 00:33:23,209 --> 00:33:24,252 Leave your bag away. 354 00:33:25,294 --> 00:33:27,588 You cannot come to the excavation with a bag. 355 00:33:31,592 --> 00:33:33,886 You look like the Indiana Jones' girlfriend. 356 00:33:35,513 --> 00:33:37,181 Why can't I be Indiana Jones myself? 357 00:33:37,265 --> 00:33:39,618 - Why the girlfriend? - You can't. 'Cause I'm Indiana Jones. 358 00:33:39,642 --> 00:33:42,186 Okay, you can be Indiana Jones. 359 00:33:44,772 --> 00:33:46,399 Wow, there's so many of them. 360 00:33:48,234 --> 00:33:49,402 The limestone. 361 00:33:49,986 --> 00:33:51,112 Dig this out. 362 00:33:53,072 --> 00:33:54,365 - Ooh! - Wow. 363 00:33:57,785 --> 00:34:00,747 Finding one intact Old Kingdom statue 364 00:34:00,830 --> 00:34:06,377 would be a huge thing in any regular Egyptologist's career. 365 00:34:06,461 --> 00:34:10,214 - Ah! - God. 366 00:34:11,883 --> 00:34:12,883 Oh my God. 367 00:34:15,094 --> 00:34:18,056 In that moment, they pulled out nine statues. 368 00:34:22,477 --> 00:34:24,062 It's... It's crazy. 369 00:34:26,939 --> 00:34:27,939 Wow. 370 00:34:28,399 --> 00:34:30,026 - This is great. - Yeah. 371 00:34:30,109 --> 00:34:34,030 The cachet of the statues shows that the people were elite. 372 00:34:34,781 --> 00:34:37,325 They were not workmen or artisans, 373 00:34:38,451 --> 00:34:42,955 because for anyone to aff