Mysteries of Egypt Page #5

But even as the monuments | of Egypt crumble

the stories are reduscovered | by modern archeologists

deciphering the distant past

Scholars and artists

are preserving the great Sphinx | for all humanity

Research within | the Giza Pyramids

has revealed the brilliance | of ancient architects

whose sophisticated designs | prevented the clooapse

of these inner chambers | and passageways.

DNA analysis is helping

to identify family ties | of the royal mummies

and to give us clues | about how they lived...

and died.

New excavations are uncovering | the support system

of settlements and facilities

for the workers who built | the Giza pyramids.

These new discoveries | and many more

owe themselves, | at least in part

to one discovery | not quite as modern

of the tomb | of a teenage Pharaoh.

On November 26, 1922, | Howard Carter reached the wall

outside the first chamber | of Tutankhamen's tomb.

What can | you see?

Carter, please, | can you see anything?

Yes.

Yes.

Wonderful things.

Wonderful things!

Grandpa:
| And they were wonderful things

kept hidden for over 3,000 years | in four chambers

carved from solid rock.

They entered to find | the only intact

king's tomb ever discovered | in modern times.

And in the burial chamber...

four golden shrines.

lnside the fourth shrine, | three golden coffins

one inside the other, | and at the center

the mummy of the boy king, | Tutankhmen.

This was the greatest treasure | ever found in Egypt

Well over 2,000 objects

of gold, alabaster, lapis

and precious jewels made | thousands of years ago

by master craftsmen.

They gave us a personal glimpse

of the royal life | in ancient Egypt

and fueled our drive | to continue searching...

to continue learning.

So, through discoveries | like Howard Carter's

and those of modern | archeologists

the ruins of ancient Egypt | mean something to us.

The stone creations that still | loom up from the desert

are new testaments

of humanity's | great stride forward

from hunters and gatherers

to builders | of majestic strutures

to dreamers of grand dreams.

These stone wonders

are the shape | of our beginnings

towering symbols of our rise

to become thinkers, artists, | poets and builders.

These great monuments | keep us humble, too.

After all, they managed to | survive for nearly 5,000 years.

How long has our modern | civilization

been around in comparison?

Not very long.

Not very long.

Now, as to the matter | of the curse.

Lord Carnarvon died | from an infected mosquite bite

five months after King Tut's | tomb was opened.

So it is true after all.

Well, Lord Carnarvon did die | an untimely death

but Howard Carter | lived to be 65.

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