Who was Seti I? Stepfather to Moses. Clever, successful pharaoh who ruled during a time of prosperity, he was highly religious and believed in the after life. We set up to search for the last great hidden tomb and undiscovered treasure.
A look at the religious aspect of the Great Schism of Pharaoh Akhenaten, Queen Nefertiti and Tell el-Armarna of the one God Aten, the return to the many Gods of Ramesses, Seti and the story of Moses. This insured Seti a significant burial.
Passed down through generations for 3,000 years the tomb builders are the robbers. To this day the people of Qurna and its patriarch El-Rassul have the key to the tombs of the Pharaohs. Did Seti outwit the descendants of the tomb builders?
From microscope recognition of the tiny trilobyte fossil to ground penetrating radar, science has superseded the trowel and brush of traditional archeology. But has it? This program asks, should we use a backhoe in the Valley of the Kings?
"The Valley" has beckoned archaeologists for hundreds of years: from Belzoni to Carter. Only now has the Theban Mapping Project and extraordinary methods such as ground penetrating radar started to reveal secrets beyond our imagination.
Who was Seti I? Step-father to Moses. Clever, successful pharaoh who ruled during a time of great prosperity, bringing back Egypt from the Great Schism of Pharaoh Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti to a more prosperous and united Kingdom.