For more than 3,000 years, Tutankhamun lay understered in the Valley of the Kings, almost forgotten.

Until in 1922, Howard Carter noticed a set of steps leading down into the earth.

Towards sunset, we had cleared down to the level of the twelfth step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion of a plastered and sealed doorway.

The only desiferable impressions of the seals were those of the well-known Royal Necropolis Seal, Anubis symbolizing a king.

They would reveal the most extraordinary gateway to the afterlife. The world had ever seen.

The awe surrounding the discovery was not simply what was found, it was the fact that you could see inside.

You could see the kings thrown, you could see the statues, you could see the objects that had just been found.

Coming to Dan Snow's History hit Sue, a mini series that tells one of the most extraordinary stories in history, the discovery of Tutankhamun.

It's a tale of tombs lost beneath shifting desert sands.

Or adventurous, robbers and nations racing to uncover the greatest prize of all, an intact Royal burial.

It's extraordinary the kind of exploration he had to do. Pitch blackness, bats flying around, dust in your face, not really knowing what you were going to see next and what would happen next.

Snakes, the possibility of sealing falling down on you.

From Egypt, a dramatic retelling that reveals so much more than the version you learnt at school, we're unraveling the story of one of the greatest dynasties of the ancient world.

And the discovery that gripped the globe and still does to this day.

So this whole room is filled with an insurance golden box inside which looks like a smaller box.

Until you get to the coffiners and afterwards you'll find the golden coffin.

On Dan Snow's History hit, a mini series that tells one of the most extraordinary stories in history, the discovery of Tutankhamun.

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