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It was an archaeological find that became global news. An extraordinary mega-tomb, filled with the largest concentration of coffins ever unearthed in Egypt, revealing a world beyond the pharaohs as it's never been seen before. This four-part series places you at the site to witness this ground-breaking discovery as it happened and follows Egyptologists as they try to determine why all of these mummies were buried together and what this ancient cemetery can tell us about the Egyptian civilization's way of death 2,500 years ago.

Emmy Award-winning director and acclaimed Egyptologist Ramy Romany will journey across the globe to investigate secrets and myths of the most fascinating burial sites, mass graves and ancient tombs on Earth in a Discovery Channel series. Mummies Unwrapped will feature Romany as he travels to ancient Egyptian tombs and Mayan mass graves to untangle the legends, myths, curses and cover-ups of our collective ancient past. The series will also utilize cutting-edge technologies to introduce new theories about how ancient civilizations once lived and died while looking to unravel the origin of each mummy, the life that once was and determine what, if any, mystical forces or supernatural phenomena were involved.

In the shadow of the world's oldest pyramids, a team of archaeologists, led by Dr. Ramadan Hussein, has made the discovery of a lifetime: a fully intact burial complex buried deep beneath the sand.

In ancient Egypt, an evil sorcerer, Scarab, kills the pharaoh's son, Prince Rapses, so he can use the boy's soul to become immortal. Entombed alive for his crime (Rapses' body was also never found), Scarab revives in the modern world and begins his search for Rapses' reincarnation, a San Francisco-dwelling boy named Presley Carnavon. Rapses' bodyguards, Ja-Kal, Rath, Armon, and Nefer-Tina, rise from the dead to protect him from Scarab. Each of the mummies is aligned with the power of an Egyptian god and are able to call upon it for magical armor and powers to fight superhuman evildoers, although once their strength is exhausted they must rest in their sarcophagi to regain the ability. The mummies also have the power to make horrifying face, usually employed to scare away nosy bystanders. In addition to Scarab, the mummies often had to contend with gods and spirits from Egyptian myth summoned to the modern world, including Anubis, Set, Geb, Apep, Bast, Sekhmet and Bes, usually as part of one of Scarab's schemes that went out of his control.

Calling on the world's leading experts to crack thousand-year-old puzzles where the cause of death could be accident, murder, suicide-and even ritual sacrifice.

Historian and author Bettany Hughes, reveals spectacular monuments from her December 2019 trip to explore to ancient Egypt and Italy. Throughout this series Prof. Hughes will uncover the secrets of Cleoptra, The riches of the Pharaos, King Tut, Egyptian Mummies, Pompeii, and much, much more.