Chasing Mummies

Zahi is supervising the restoration of the Step Pyramid, the oldest in Egypt, and helping him out are the members of his fellowship programme.

Zahi Hawass journeys to the Five Chambers high above the Grand Gallery of the Great Pyramid to document the ancient graffiti on the walls and prove who built the pyramids.

In his tireless lust for adventure, Zahi uncovers a cache of mummies when he descends deep underground in Saqqara, and discovers a beautiful 26th-Dynasty anthropoid sarcophagus.

On the road to Dakhla, the fellows learn quickly just how fast everything can change when Zahi is in the driver's seat! Army manoeuvres have shut down their journey to restore an ancient minaret and now they must make a treacherous journey through the White Desert to camp overnight in a deserted oasis.

A team of archaeologists dive into the Mediterranean to bring up a nine-ton pylon that was part of Cleopatra's shrine. But when incompetence prevails, Zahi unleashes his fury.

Finding unopened tombs in modern-day Egypt is very rare indeed, but with all his fellows in tow, Zahi heads to Sheikh Sobey and discovers an amazing mummy inside a sarcophagus.