Mummies Alive: Season 1 Episode 4 - The Pharaoh's Secret - Smithsonian Channel
- 7 years ago
The Pharaoh’s Secret peels back the wrappings on a mysterious, mutilated pharaoh. Reconstructed in hyper-real CG and using the latest forensic techniques, this programme unearths a violent story of conquest and rebellion that laid the foundations for Ancient Egypt’s golden age.
Was he a warrior pharaoh? A victim of an execution? An assassin's target? Discover the truth of Seqenenre Tao.
One of the mummies inside the Cairo Museum's Royal Mummy Room is not like the others. Among the meticulously preserved remains of Egyptian pharaohs and queens lies the corpse of Seqenenre Tao, whose mummification was hurried and incomplete. His face is brutally injured and his hands are horribly contorted. Who was this man, and what on earth happened to him? We use modern forensic techniques to examine this 3,000-year-old forgotten pharaoh and reveal the probable cause of his death.
Was he a warrior pharaoh? A victim of an execution? An assassin's target? Discover the truth of Seqenenre Tao.
One of the mummies inside the Cairo Museum's Royal Mummy Room is not like the others. Among the meticulously preserved remains of Egyptian pharaohs and queens lies the corpse of Seqenenre Tao, whose mummification was hurried and incomplete. His face is brutally injured and his hands are horribly contorted. Who was this man, and what on earth happened to him? We use modern forensic techniques to examine this 3,000-year-old forgotten pharaoh and reveal the probable cause of his death.