Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs

00:00:27 Egypt...

00:02:14 But how they were mummified?

00:03:36 The Egyptians attributed this to the will of the the gods. "Divine order".

00:05:13 They called the soul for the essence of each person his Ba.

00:06:31 Everything, except how they mummified their dead.

00:07:42 the bodies was no longer in contact with the sand

00:08:41 These natural antiseptics were described by the Greek historian Herodotus in his book.

00:10:16 that i could only fill in by creating a modern mummy.

00:11:57 DNA is the magic ingredient.

00:13:18 Many ancient egyptians died from malaria, just as millions of people will this year.

00:14:39 In early times, only the pharaohs bodies were made in to mummies and buried in their pyramids.

00:16:21 Ramses constructed Abu Simbel, a warning to barbarians beyond.

00:18:03 Ramses built more temples up and down the Nile, than any other pharaoh.

00:19:28 Only a few dozen people could read the hieroglyphs.

00:21:05 But tho these tombs were made for kings, not a single pharaoh's body remained.

00:22:47 Ahmed and Mohammed Rassoul were experts in this dangerous profession.

00:24:33 The gleaming new house told him, that brothers were coming to some money recently.

00:26:02 In early Egypt pharaohs built their tombs in pyramids.

00:27:30 Until now.

00:30:32 And his successor, Tuthmosis II.

00:31:48 And the father of this man - Ramses the Great.

00:34:07 Years later the tomb collapsed.

00:36:00 The pharaohs mummies have meant different things over the centuries.