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Ramses the Great's Mummy: The Incredible Journey of a Pharaoh's Body
We all know Ramses II as the builder of Abu Simbel and the hero of Kadesh, but what happened to his body after he died? In this episode, Lucas and Luna follow the extraordinary two-thousand-year journey of Ramses's mummy — from his original tomb in the Valley of the Kings (KV7) to a secret royal cache at Deir el-Bahari, where priests hid him from tomb robbers. They explore the dramatic discovery of the cache in 1881 by the Abd el-Rassul family, the tense negotiations with Egyptian authorities, and the moment when Egyptologist Gaston Maspero unwrapped the great pharaoh. Then, the…
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