1. Tutankhamun: The Valley of the Kings

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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1/4. On the West Bank of the Nile in Luxor lie the burial chambers of some of Ancient Egypt's greatest pharaohs - Ramses II, Seti I and Tutankhamun. From Luxor, Dan delves into the history of the Valley of the Kings with Alia Ismail whose current project is 3D mapping the tombs. He ventures deep into the earth inside the most magnificent of all the valley tombs- Seti I - as he and celebrated Egyptologist Salima Ikram tell the story of Giovanni Belzoni and the many explorers and archaeologists who set the stage for Howard Carter's discovery of the century.

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0:40.7	It's 5.30 in the morning, it's already 30 degrees. I've started on the East Bank of the Nile this early summer in Upper Egypt in Luxor.
0:47.7	It's a spurfically still mind the birds of singing, the boogal video is flowering all around me, palm trees on the side.
0:53.7	I could just hear faintly the call to prayer being carried along the surface of the still Nile.
1:00.7	One of the three great rivers, the Yangtze, the Ganges, the Nile, sources of life,
1:06.7	sustenance for innumerable civilizations that have lived and died on the banks of these great rivers.
1:12.7	I'm excited this morning because I'm about to head across to the West Bank. It's a journey that I'd army times I do it,
1:17.7	that never ever ceases to thrill. It's what locals call the side of the dead.
1:23.7	It's on this other side that you find the valley of the kings, home to some of the most spectacular archaeological sites on earth.
1:31.7	Within the desert valley carved into its limestone, a burial chambers of some of Egypt's greatest new kingdom,
1:37.7	rulers setting the first, premises the great, and of course the most famous one all, Tutan Palman.
1:44.7	For more than 3000 years, the boy Faro lay undisturbed and pretty much forgotten until in 1922, a hundred years ago,
1:52.7	the Blish archaeologist Howard Carter noticed a set of steps that led eventually to Tutan Palman's tomb.
1:59.7	He'd just discovered perhaps the most extraordinary gateway to the afterlife the world had ever seen.
2:05.7	You're listening to Dan Snow's history hit. This is our special mini-series marking the hundredth anniversary of the discovery of Tutan Palman's tomb.
2:19.7	From Egypt, we're telling the dramatic story of the valley of the kings, this once magnificent royal cemetery,
2:27.7	and how many of its greatest tombs were lost beneath the shifting desert sands.
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