Egypt's Unexplained Files — S01E02 — Curse of the Crocodile Queen

00:00:01 Narrator: Pyramids, temples, tombs...

00:01:51 never sits on the throne... The mighty priest imhotep.

00:03:35 And powerful and important enough

00:05:28 Emery finds the beginning of a labyrinth of catacombs.

00:07:27 we can see up to five meters into the surface of the ground.

00:09:14 Ancient egyptians battled climate change...

00:11:05 their arch-enemies by sending grain.

00:12:48 Meat-based diets require more land,

00:14:33 If the egyptians are preparing for droughts

00:16:10 to continue well beyond many of these other societies

00:18:05 ever discovered.

00:19:52 Sobek is the crocodile god, and nefru means beautiful.

00:21:53 She was able to blend female clothing

00:24:01 than we do of the ordinary people.

00:25:37 archaeologists find something extraordinary...

00:27:19 They begin to wonder if this could be the workers' cemetery

00:29:02 could reach the afterlife.

00:31:11 Narrator: Around 130 pharaohs later, after 1,500 years of worship,

00:33:08 It is this massive forest of 132 pillars.

00:35:10 On each stone are mysterious hieroglyphs.

00:36:55 on the religious beliefs of the pharaohs.

00:38:56 Narrator: Copper is a relatively soft metal,

00:40:37 Naunton: The nile is absolutely critical to pyramid building.

00:42:18 to thrive for more than two millennia.