Secrets of the Pharaohs For nearly 3,000 years, ancient Egypt was the greatest civilization on Earth. But what the modern world knows about ancient Egyptian culture has been pieced together from surprisingly little hard information.
Many mysteries remain.
In the last few years, it has become possible to decipher a vast source of information from the Egyptian dead. Thanks to new scientific techniques, Egyptian mummies have begun revealing secrets of their lost world. Liev Schreiber narrates the programs. When Howard Carter found the tomb of the boy king Tutankhamun in 1922, he also found the remains of two fetuses buried in the pharaoh s tomb. Tutankhamun was the last of the line.