Maury Povich hosts this exploration of Egypt's pyramid of Khamerernebty II and the unopened Tomb of the Unknown by Dr. Zahi A. Hawass, Undersecretary of State for Egypt's Giza Plateau. Also: an examination of the mummy Nefer in Saqqara.
Production
Live broadcast from inside actual tombs — pure chaotic ambition.
Acting
Zahi Hawass's unbothered king energy opposite Maury's daytime TV urgency.
Director
Artie Kempner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This aired during the late-90s Egyptomania boom sparked by The Mummy and Tutankhamun exhibitions, blending scholarship with entertainment in ways that now feel deeply unserious.
Zahi Hawass later became Egypt's Minister of Antiquities and a ubiquitous TV personality, making this early appearance a fascinating glimpse of a man who would dominate archaeological media for two decades.
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