Incredible Find! Uncovering an Ancient Egyptian Tomb | Expedition Unknown

foreign look at this exploring near the surface of a newly discovered burial shaft we may have just found a coffin that’s thousands of years old I think this is in the foreign and here’s the back here yes Josh see it’s sealed yes it is yes it means the human remains it’s will preserved small is it you think it’s a baby coffin yes the measurement could be a baby coffin later period than the burial shaft here someone added this you think yeah considering this coffin is pushed up against the outside of the rich Old Kingdom burial shaft and beer offering this was likely added after the mysterious collapse of the Old Kingdom this child’s family would have wanted to have an afterlife for their offspring though so if they couldn’t build a tomb they’d use the edge of someone else’s do you want to take this all the way

down yes okay be careful yeah [Music] the Desert Winds begin kicking up so the workers start to move their operation into a nearby tent the rest of us though find good reasons to stay outside look they’re just I think it’s oh my God it’s gold yes part of a necklace yeah yes inlaid with something interesting [Music] sometimes something here okay hold on got it to move yes ready it’s yours you got it yes okay good good good good look at the lines on it yes see that yes wow I tried to keep it in the tint because it’s this wind it’s not good for it unbelievable look at these painted lines on the side it’s absolutely beautiful yes this is both of the New Kingdom so this vase hundreds of years newer than the burial shaft was probably meant to accompany the child’s coffin into the

Afterlife something else musket is it woven yeah a basket basket wow incredible something this delicate handmade you can just see the craftsmanship of it I think this is this is a base and this is a lid yes should we get it inside yes let’s get it inside out of the Wind as you can hear the wind is just howling now so it’s a bit of a race to remove these objects and get them out of the wind into the tent the team brings in straps and a stretcher to quickly and carefully raise the coffin and carry it to the safety of the tent the third strap yes up up up up down good good [Music] mesh you can be a one-on-one huh dollars [Music] come on it’s a bizarre feeling to be pallbearer for a child who died thousands of years earlier now he is in a safe place

all right out of the Wind a safe facility to examine the coffin we Don masks to protect against inhaling ancient spores or dust up up oh my word careful oh so here we have an individual looks like a really bad state of preservation yeah moisture the moisture yes yeah water got in here it looks like look at the sign on the wall of the coffee yes yes it’s laying in his side look at also in some cases like this we try to have some of a small amulet it’s a oh what is that it’s something [Music] ring an earring earring an earring yes should be another one what kind of uh Ivory usually Ivory Ivory ivory so now we think we have a girl we have a girl here the earrings suggest that the mummy is that of a young girl if I were superstitious I’d say the wind

raging outside suggests she’s feeling restless I mean right as we open this it’s like a storm is kicking up yes should I be worried no no none of them might I’ve seen this movie before I know how this ends fortunately the tent seems to be holding [Music] look at this necklace oh these are beads yes yes is that whole necklace right there yes you can see all these individual beads here are these discs all of this is a necklace that goes all the way around so here we have a big part of this necklace and you have these beautiful Finance this kind of shiny ceramic the beads are made from ceramic and quartz and then glazed even now Millennia later the color shines like it was made yesterday carefully gather the loose beads so the archaeologists can conserve and perhaps one day reconstruct the necklace

this is all linen right yes so she she would have been mummified yes yes so the condition here is really poor but this is a mummy you can see this brown material this is linen here and she would have been completely wrapped in this so what do you think we can say about this this girl from Ivory and she have a fancy Nicholas That Daycare with this girl for sure this is definitely someone who was loved and buried with care this is really humbling you know here we have a girl a young girl who lived and died and was buried in this Cemetery during the New Kingdom which is still over 3 000 years ago this is an archaeological specimen but it’s also a person yes she had a name she had a family she has a story and also they think the first life a

very short life yeah so they try to have the eternity life after this right the earrings and the necklace and probably she was beautifully mummified and uh she would have looked proper for your next her next life yes now we will put the lid and Jacob yes let her rest okay [Music] With the Wind dying dying beer there’s news at the large burial shaft we’ve been Excavating that we hope will help us understand the fall of the Old Kingdom we had previously found the top of the upper chamber and now a short time later the workers have widened the opening so we’re taking out another couple feet of sand and then we’re going to explore the inside of this upper vault oh another vessel resilience we’ve got another ceramic vessel here that might have fallen out or might have been placed there I don’t know

it’s very nice careful very nice beautiful look at that complete vessel yes so this this upper Vault sits above the main burial chamber below you know anything could be up here offerings anything could be tucked into this upper chamber or Nothing at All foreign do you think this is undisturbed yes it’s undisturbed for sure sure okay the main burial should be in a vault just below us but first we have to continue exploring the upper chamber phone here in the corner uh linen linen bye-bye so some linen here as well this is mummy wrap right here in the corner in the very corner just outside of this upper Vault why would that bone it’s just a tool we work furiously to move further down through the sand hoping to find the burial that we assume must be very near so we’ve got a layer of mud brick here

and some Limestone pieces bones there long bone oh opening we got a vault oh no oh my God look at this it’s all decorated oh my word it’s all painted holy it’s a tune