Inside Cairo’s Egyptian Museum: Episode Trailer

Prepare for your trip with Museum Secrets: Inside Cairo’s Egyptian Museum, in the fifth of our six episode sneak peaks.

Check out the episode trailer for Museum Secrets: Inside Cairo’s Egyptian Museum.

With 25 million people, Cairo is the largest city in Africa, and each year Cairo’s Egyptian Museum gets millions of visitors, making it one of the most renowned museums in the world. There are 120,000 items here, with the world’s largest collection of Pharaonic antiquities, including 27 mummies of the Royal Cache.

In Cairo, we search for the lost tomb of Ramesses the Great, then we investigate a mummy’s head wounds and recreate the last violent moments of an ancient king to discover if he was a brave or cowardly man. We visit the stomping grounds of Indiana Jones to discover how a poor Pharaoh amassed a hoard of gold to rival King Tut, and we enter an underground necropolis to find out why ancient Egyptians mummified millions of animals. We also investigate cryptic inscriptions discovered on a pyramid’s capstone to reveal the secret of the pyramid’s spiritual power, and we search King Khufu’s pyramid to discover his true likeness.