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Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb

Mummification is abouttrying to preserve your image as yourself

Mummification is about
trying to preserve your image as yourself

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Mummification is about trying to preserve your image as yourself.
Duration
4 seconds
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23
Timestamp in Movie
00:57:45
Uploaded
May 28, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
At Land Productions,Lion Television

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Movie Summary

This documentary follows a team of local archaeologists excavating never before explored passageways, shafts, and tombs, piecing together the secrets of Egypt’s most significant find in almost 50 years in Saqqara.
What the Egyptians would do is stick something up your nose, - Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb 00:13
What the Egyptians would do is stick something up your nose,
They'd take out your liver, your lungs, your stomach, and your intestines. - Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb 00:05
They'd take out your liver, your lungs, your stomach, a...
So, after all of these internal organs have been removed, - Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb 00:10
So, after all of these internal organs have been removed,
[Sabry, in Arabic] Why would it look burnt? - Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb 00:04
[Sabry, in Arabic] Why would it look burnt?
[Mohammad] It could be the natron used in mummification that caused that. - Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb 00:05
[Mohammad] It could be the natron used in mummification that...
[Sabry] So some sort of… - Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb 00:14
[Sabry] So some sort of…
[Salima, in English] …and reciting spells and praying and burning incense. - Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb 00:05
[Salima, in English] …and reciting spells and praying and bu...
The bottom half isn't as badly affected, but it's good linen. - Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb 00:04
The bottom half isn't as badly affected, but it's ...
[in English] And all of this, what it did was transform you from a secular creature - Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb 00:07
[in English] And all of this, what it did was transform you ...
[men speaking Arabic] - Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb 00:06
[men speaking Arabic]
[Hamada] Mummifying the body is said to have been influenced - Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb 00:13
[Hamada] Mummifying the body is said to have been influenced
Osiris was ruling the world - Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb 00:10
Osiris was ruling the world
She went around Egypt collecting his pieces, - Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb 00:07
She went around Egypt collecting his pieces,
Through this, she brought him back to life - Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb 00:08
Through this, she brought him back to life
Horus grew up to avenge his father's murder - Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb 00:07
Horus grew up to avenge his father's murder
Osiris became king of the underworld - Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb 00:07
Osiris became king of the underworld
That conviction in the power of mummification to transcend death… - Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb 00:10
That conviction in the power of mummification to transcend d...
[Mustafa] Get Dr. Mohammad and tell him the foreman needs him. - Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb 00:04
[Mustafa] Get Dr. Mohammad and tell him the foreman needs hi...
[man speaking Arabic] - Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb 00:07
[man speaking Arabic]
Usually, these shafts with these measurements go deeper, - Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb 00:08
Usually, these shafts with these measurements go deeper,