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The Mummy Who Would Be King homepage
Image: (mummy with crossed arms) © NOVA/WGBH Educational Foundation

Undiscovered Tombs
Photos: (antechamber of Tutankhamun's tomb) © Griffith Institute, Oxford, OX1 2LG; (bust of Nefertiti) © Ruggero Vanni/CORBIS; (mask of Tutankhamun) © Robert Holmes/CORBIS; (defaced relief of Akhenaten, Valley of the Kings) Peter Tyson/© NOVA/WGBH Educational Foundation

Who Was Rameses I?
Photos: (head of Paramessu) © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; (map of ancient Egypt, "Rameses I" mummy) © NOVA/WGBH Educational Foundation; (Rameses I tomb interior) © Sandro Vannini/CORBIS; (mummies of Seti I and Rameses II) Courtesy Michael C. Carlos Museum

Making Mummies
Please note: Black-and-white images of the mummies from the University of Chicago have been color-enhanced.
Photos: (Salima Ikram) Courtesy Salima Ikram; (mummies of Unknown Man C; Nesitanebetashru A; Nodjmet; Masaharta, High Priest of Amun; Unknown Man, 18th Dynasty; Tuthmosis II, 18th Dynasty; Unknown Man closeup; Tuthmosis II closeup; Rameses II in coffin and closeup; Merenptah; Djedptahiuankh and closeup; mummy wrapped in linen; shroud of Tuthmosis III) Courtesy University of Chicago Library; (natural mummy, The Hall of Judgment and closeups, canopic jars, Opening of the Mouth Ritual) © British Museum/HIP/Art Resource, NY; (Valley of the Kings in distance) Peter Tyson/© NOVA/WGBH Educational Foundation; (priest dressed as Anubis) © E. Strouhal/Werner Forman/Art Resource, NY; (X-ray of skull) Courtesy F. Filce Leek; (Wadi Natrun) Courtesy A. J. Shortland, antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/shortland/shortland.html; (bag of natron, Valley of the Kings) © Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY; (amulet, cartonnage of Nespanetjerenpera) © Brooklyn Museum; (mask of Ankhef, mask of Satdjehuty) © Trustees of the British Museum

The Afterlife
Please note: Black-and-white images of the mummies from the University of Chicago have been color-enhanced.
Photos: (mummies of Nesikhonsu, Djedptahiuankh, Nesitanebetashrua A, "Lady Rai", Seti I, Rameses II, "The Elder Woman", Rameses V, mummy in linen wrappings) Courtesy University of Chicago Library; (feet of "Rameses I" mummy, Salima Ikram) © NOVA/WGBH Educational Foundation

TV Program Description
Photo: ("Rameses I" mummy) © NOVA/WGBH Educational Foundation

 

Narrated by
Stacy Keach

Produced by
Gail Willumsen and Jill Shinefield

Written and Directed by
Gail Willumsen

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Bill Mills

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Gil Talmi
Andrew Gross

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