Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs

00:00:27 Egypt...

00:02:07 when his mummy would ressurect in paradise.

00:03:22 And in all that time Egypt's gods and government barely changed.

00:05:05 The egyptians mummies would never rise again.

00:06:27 Their myths and legends...

00:07:31 The first mummies were natural, dried by a bariel in hot desert sands.

00:08:28 Over time the egyptians noticed

00:10:05 he and his mummy would be reborn in the next.

00:11:48 DNA is the blueprint of all life.

00:12:58 Some diseases, like malaria are caused by parasites invading the body.

00:14:13 Many of these mummies still lie beneath the ground, awaiting the call to paradise.

00:15:56 So he built monuments for himself, and to his beloved Nefertari.

00:17:30 This may be the only face from the Bible, we will ever see.

00:19:03 And than in the 19th century, scholars finally cracked the code to hieroglyphs.

00:20:27 Painted food and drink fed the mummies.

00:22:02 so the royal tombs were raided.

00:24:00 The Rassouls could not read the hieroglyphs on what they found, but Wilbour could.

00:25:41 They were the suspects already.

00:27:05 And why has relics from different kings and queens spending centuries

00:28:20 And another codebreaker.

00:31:12 Ramses III.

00:32:55 Fulfilling their wish, that their names be said and they might live on.

00:34:52 The DNA held in mummies like Ramses the Great may yet provide cures for diseases today.

01:00:00 built temples to please the gods.