Mariette left 170 years ago. These archaeologists just found what he missed.
This documentary follows a team of archaeologists, mandated by the Louvre Museum, as they pick up where Egyptologist Auguste Mariette left-off with his discovery of the Serapeum tomb of the bull of Apis - one of the most sacred places in Saqqara, Egypt, in 1850. Mariette also managed to map out a network of underground tunnels leading to other burial sites that he did not have time to uncover. With exclusive access, we follow a team of archaeologists continue the research of Mariette.
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Exclusive access to sealed Saqqara tunnels
Direction
Mariette's 1850 maps vs. modern LiDAR
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Apis bull was literally a god on earth—when it died, Egypt mourned like a pharaoh.
Mariette's original Serapeum discovery was so vast he sealed sections he couldn't explore, leaving them untouched until this team arrived.
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