Egypt's Sun King: The Mystery Tombs (Documentary, English)
Status: Ended
Premiered: 2018-11-24
Ended: 2018-11-24
Network: SBS
Country: AU
Airs on: Saturday
Runtime: 50 minutes
In
 2011 a team from the University of Basel made two astonishing 
discoveries in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. By chance they came across a
 new tomb that was the first to contain a body since the discovery of 
Tutankhamun. Then they discovered that the tomb beside it, which had 
never been excavated before, held the bodies of around 50 people. But 
who were all the people in these two linked tombs? This film follows the
 archaeological detective story to uncover the answer. It pursues the 
trail that leads to one of Egypt's greatest pharaohs, Amenhotep III - 
and to the women he was close to. And the film also reveals the 
astonishing project behind the re-emergence nearby of the largest temple
 ever built in ancient Egypt - the lost mortuary temple of the same 
pharaoh, Amenhotep III.