Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs Page #5

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Dozens of mummies, all royal.

The Pharaoh Tuthmosis I.

And his successor, Tuthmosis II.

Husband to Hatshepsut,

Greatest Queen ever to rule.

Builder of Deir el-Bahri,

and the finest obelisks in Egypt.

His son, Tuthmosis III., Great warrior King.

Builder of an empire, and the temple of Amun.

Ramses III.,

who's legacy stands at Karnak and beyond.

Seti I.

Brilliant general, who commissioned exquisite

temples at Abydos and Thebes.

And his tomb in the valley of the kings.

And the father of this man

- Ramses the Great.

His temples at Luxor, Karnak and Abydos.

Abu Simbel still gods Egypt's southern border.

His name lives on.

These were the men and women,

who built the Egypt.

And so it was, that the pharaohs began their journey

out of the darkness and in to the light.

Fulfilling their wish, that their names

be said and they might live on.

Four decades later, Howard Carter would find

a near perfect tomb of the boy king - Tutankhamun.

But the greatest cash of

royal mummies in history, 40,

including 12 pharaohs had left

the valley of the kings forever.

These mummies traveled 400 miles

north to Cairo, where they lie today.

Years later the tomb collapsed.

But the mummies have been saved

and may reveal their secrets.

The samples from the modern mummies skin,

muscle and bone have shown,

that the skin and muscle didn't contain DNA.

But the bone did, 4x more DNA than ever

extracted from an ancient egyptian mummy.

Now we know, where to look for DNA in

ancient mummies. In the bones.

The DNA held in mummies like Ramses the Great

may yet provide cures for diseases today.

Some might call it luck, but the ancient priests

hid the pharaoh's mummies.

And robbers didn't destroy them and they escaped

annihilation in the collapsing tomb.

The Egyptians would call it "divine order" - Ma'at.

But now we might be on the cusp of another wonder.

The pharaohs mummies have meant

different things over the centuries.

For the ancients they were the source of hope,

for the robbers the source of wealth,

for scholars the source of knowledge.

But finally perhaps the mummies

will fulfill their destiny.

To sustain the gift of life.

Translation:
Jierro

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