Tomb Hunters

Overview

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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Cast

Mostafa Waziri

directeur des fouilles

Mohammad Youssef

directeur du site

Hamada Mansour

responsable des fouilles

Ahmed Zikrey

égyptologue

Katharina Stövesand

égyptologue

Ashraf Ewais

conservateur du patrimoine

Aliaa Ismail

égyptologue