Tomb Hunters

Follow Egyptian archaeologists on the hunt for answers after finding a vast burial chamber filled with over 100 coffins.

Follow Egyptologists as they raise, open, and run high-tech exams on a painted coffin and mummy over 2,500 years old.

Egyptian archaeologists made global news when they came upon two massive tombs in Saqqara that date back more than 2,500 years. But they didn't stop there. They also discovered an unfinished tomb that appears to predate the other mega-tombs by around two millennia. It belonged to a prominent Judicial Tallyman named Pinomis and his family but exploring the burial chamber has raised many questions. Who was this judge? How did he achieve his wealth and status? And why did he choose to spend his eternal afterlife in a tomb only half-built?

Follow archaeologists as they examine coffins from Egypt's Greek Period, recently unearthed in the tombs of Saqqara.