Egypt's Unexplained Files — S01E04 — Tut's Curse: The New Evidence

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

00:01:50 to test the remains of a 3,000-year-old baboon,

00:03:53 And this is a magical island.

00:05:39 We have evidence now based on our excavation of pottery

00:07:35 A team of scientists at the british museum in london

00:09:53 The impact that tourism has.

00:11:51 Johnston: Within the tomb was discovered a little inscription

00:13:49 They are unique to tutankhamun's tomb

00:15:28 may you be savaged by a hippopotamus."

00:17:12 Narrator: Historians turn to science to try and decode

00:19:07 And resins are applied.

00:20:52 to be slaughtered for mummification.

00:22:37 the head of a cat as a gavel.

00:24:29 Did these biblical plagues actually happen?

00:26:30 on the tiny mediterranean island of santorini,

00:28:14 would have gone 25 miles up into the atmosphere.

00:30:01 matching the river of blood described in the book of exodus.

00:31:51 to the ancient egyptians' religion?

00:33:45 One so important that it grants them a ritual burial.

00:35:21 of the living or the dead.

00:37:07 She's got the paws of a lion and from the head up, a crocodile.

00:39:05 in the valley of the kings.

00:40:35 Researchers analyze the three creatures

00:42:21 of the most vulnerable in egyptian society.