Secrets of the Dead — S20E04 — Decoding Hieroglyphics

00:00:18 -Egypt, land of countless ancient treasures

00:02:57 that the largest tomb at the site --

00:05:17 because archaeologists built a wall

00:07:26 if they respect this tomb."

00:09:50 with the camera inside the tomb.

00:12:02 without having a fear of death!

00:14:03 In the year 380, the emperor Theodosius issued a decree

00:16:11 but because his name was on the Rosetta stone

00:18:53 Champollion was able to translate a new cartouche,

00:21:29 -Here is the first hour of the Book of Amduat.

00:23:40 he will rise every day with the sun --

00:26:15 and so it's the same way than in any magic,

00:28:31 were always learning the craft.

00:30:44 But some of them were used to practice writing,

00:32:51 to excavate the rock.

00:35:39 who we know who they married,

00:38:23 documenting the history of this civilization.

00:40:43 -Chronology is one of the primary concerns of Champollion

00:43:24 he must now determine which pharaoh the scribe served.

00:45:36 to show how erudite he was to visitors,

00:47:48 many of the chapels inside the Karnak complex

00:49:56 and earned the tomb the legend of being cursed.

00:53:01 in which Padiamenope, on his funerary bed

00:55:16 of this ancient civilization and its hieroglyphics.