Treasure Found While Scuba Diving in Ancient Egyptian Tomb | Expedition Unknown | Discovery

The full buckets go up and out.
The empty ones back in and down, passed from man to man in total darkness.
I have a bucket heading back through chamber two.
I think we should make this an Olympic event.
That exchange was beautiful.
A perfect handoff.

We keep it up for more than two hours.
When I learned that not all of the buckets were filling are equal,
I got some interesting things going on here.
You? I don’t know yet.
Let me, uh, let me fill this bucket a little more.
There’s something in here.
It’s gonna take me a minute to work around it, so we can’t just copy that.
Pull it. Gotta get the layers off of it.

All right. I got something of interest here.
Smooth around the edges.
Does it feel like natural rock?
No, it does not feel natural.
I think we need to get out and take a look at it.

The item, whatever it is, is placed inside a hard container Pearce Paul has clipped to his belt.
Then we carefully ferry it out into the light.
Josh and Pearce are coming out.
So we’ll be digging around, hold some buckets out.
Who we got?
Oh, yes.

So this is the Stassen Sharp tea.
That is great.
Just found that from down here.
We just got him down out of the burial chamber.
A sharp tea is a figurine that would be buried with a royal to attend to them in the afterlife.
And this wasn’t a metaphor.
This doll was supposed to physically spring to life, to serve Nastasen in eternity.
And this that we see out here, this black…
This is paint.
This is paint that was put on it probably during the firing process.
You can see the circle going around here.
This is almost certainly the edge of the cartouche to keep the paint.

So we have Kushite hieroglyphs on here.
Yes. A cartouche is an oval-shaped surrounding hieroglyphics, typically displaying the name of an important individual.
It finds the information so we can see the name of the assassin.
This is unbelievable.

Even though these are meant to be servants to wait on him in the afterlife,
The representation, the face…
Is it meant to be him?
Yeah, this is intended to be him.

You need to have representations of your image in order to ensure you live in perpetuity.
As a magical object, the Shabti is covered with spells intended to keep the king’s name alive, granting him immortality.
All I can say is so far, so good.
I mean, the idea that this has been waiting for, you know, nearly 2500 years.
How about that?
What a find.

This is a precious discovery.
This figure now serves his king once more.
Not by waiting on him, but by preserving his memory.
It’s an honor to have helped bring him to the surface.
An ambassador for you to give this to me as a gift.
It was so kind of you. You didn’t need to do that.
It’s just Paul and his team.
Almost. I thought I had the State Department behind me.
I thought I had him, the team needs to catalog this remarkable find.
And we’ve reached our daily time limit in the tomb, which is carefully controlled to prevent fatigue.
Soon, we’ll mount one last push inside in search of King Nastasen himself.

In the meantime, the shabti we found raises some important questions.
These objects, which are so iconically Egyptian, are also being used in tombs here in Kush, along with pyramids, mummies, and more.
Why? And even more mysterious, what made this kingdom powerful enough to conquer Egypt?