For more than a millennium ancient egypt was on lost while all but forgotten the remains of this civilization built on the banks of the nile lake barrett beneath the desert sand. To this day many have yet to come to light but archaeologists continue to uncover more of the egypt of the varos revealing a little more of its incredible history every day thanks to the latest Scientific Technology in physics genetics and computer imaging some riddles from the past and now being solved. One of the biggest mysteries of ancient egypt is the fate of queen after t. T. Whose name means the beautiful woman has come she was pharaoh aka not a principal wife and some say mother of one of the most famous pharaohs pluton comoving mommy has never conclusively been found so the search for her has become a holy grail for egyptologists and feeds the most contradictory theories. Of all. Falgout the despotic is actually a message across a big call that our search took to do that all the samples they studied still contained d. N. A. Which i find surprising but since you did it was a very royal city so uncertain effort to be lived here cruising the proportions of her face are perfect shes probably the perfect form of via. A team of bank spots follow the traces of nephi t. T. To understand how and where she died and why they see gyptian queen has become so register. Antonio few scanty a dr of physics and science reporter welcome dr research in europe while egypt on a just kind of dean like tonio design and Science Writers you know wont travel across egypt in such off never t. T. To find out want became a math a tedious mommy we must 1st reconstruct the timeline of a history spanning over 3500 years the history of ancient egypt protein and geo made egyptologist. Gives us an overview of those incredible civilization. Or 1000 to 5000 years ago when the pyramids were built because what we call the old kingdom the dr was the great time when they made the pyramids of khufu and coffee the ones we all know. Around 3500 years ago during the middle kingdom they made pyramids with brick and covered with stone that if you are then you around 2500 to 3000 years ago was the new can you. Give it up you. Get. Alexander the great came in 332 b. C. E. And after his rule for 3 centuries there was ptolemy cleopatra arson or these greek and macedonian pharaohs as it is a ship never lived around 1300 b. C. E. 13 and jump some 3300 years into the past to egypts new kingdom to try to shed light on her fact. Never t. T. Was born in looks or known in antiquity as thieves back then it was the egyptian capital so its in this legendary city on the nile that khloe dane and begin their research into the mystery of the beautiful never d. T. Where was she bearing why does the location of her tomb remain unknown. Mommy possibly moved these are the questions the experts will try to answer this city in the heart of egypt is famous for its temple whose entrance was once flanked by 2 are beliefs one still remains the other now stands on the plaster low concord impactors was one of the biggest pharaonic capitals and where we find the 1st traces of the future egyptian queen never t. T. The legend of never really began on december 6th 1912 on that day in a manner in middle egypt the bust of queen never t. T. It was discovered german archaeologist looked fake for shot headed the excavation of the city that had lain barrett but 33 centuries in the ruins of a sculpture as well it is covered the magnificent and surprisingly well preserved past of queen efforts. Now. One of the worlds most famous artifacts it is on display at the noise museum in violin. The pop of short for the proportions of her face are perfect there but she has a bit of masculinity especially in the chin giving her a slightly editor arjun is local sheen they all 6 are planned we know this androgynous look is more seductive than absolute them in any. Event whether these traits are really true to those of the real negativity or not over a 1000000 visitors rushed to the noise museum every year to admire her likeness. Who is now the emblematic representation of the queen around the world. The experts now know walk my footy to loke like but to help them in their search for money they need to learn more about her history. It is vital to reconstruct her life story and the places where she lived one ravel the mystery of her final resting place. Never d. D. Was born in themes into the high nobility that ruled egypt for centuries pharaohs werent just political leaders but also the head of a religion with multiple gongs represented in various ways in modern day look saw that famous contact temples still bear witness to the egyptians reverenced of these dawns. Here the experts meet dimitriy labadee an egyptologist who specializes in never tts era doesnt like it though since she got this to garner as a gigantic side around 50 hectors ago this is absolutely gigantic a paradise for archaeologists and in the same area of modern day oaks or on this bus occur its a sacred space that goes way beyond the sight of carnac sanctuaries or looks or the year obama. It made you know. The whole site was sacred for the ancient egyptians since the founding of the city the greeks they would be they sort of or was it an egyptian and dates from the 2nd millennium b. C. Or at. Around 600. 00 its a very royal city the king came here often as did his queen nefertiti to be married in the 4th year of his rule here. It was out in force and all of us to the upper circles were coming to the most sacrosanct part of the carnac temple the sanctuary where every pharaoh was initiated into their role this pharaoh and communication with the god of the 3 every pharaoh since 2 at most of the 3rd set forth here so it was worth it they all walked here including argonauts and. It was invoked so whenever t. T. Met the future of pharaoh i cannot and who she later married the couple worshiped in the contact temple but so far their mommies havent been found here nor is there any indication as to where nothing tts to find any. So the experts had simple signs of the potters now for d. D. Occupied neither looks on to search for clues that might get them to the queens mommy the egyptian leaders sought calm and serenity fall from the chaos of the contact temple complex for years akiyama just searched deserts and fields an effort to these residents and finally i think thank found it west a rock song in mt cancer. Peter alaca is leading an excavation on the site. An art. Or is it did you expect this it was huge its bigger than Buckingham Palace its bigger than the white house. Covers an area all the enclosures its about 150 by a 100 meters so so a huge huge area very often we have the kings kind of founding these palaces outside near the royal sit there the capital say see it was put there by like versa. We know a lot about the decoration of the palace because. It seems it collapsed perhaps during a rainstorm and so much of the painting on the ceiling and the floor got preserved so much on the walls but you know it was very decorative. One of the reasons that were trying so hard to preserve tekton preserve now is its the last of these were all cities that sort of in its original landscape if you go to other royal cities like a martyr. Or there theyre being encroached by the modern town so fortunately it is a little bit off in the desert so you can get an idea of how it would have originally appeared. Excavation gives them some pretty good idea. And its environment. Meanwhile antonio is in northern france to learn about the palaces interior notably its wealth decorative elements engineer and egypt file has made a 3 d. Model of it. For most teams of how exactly did you make the version of this palace. Whos going to do we used archaeological sources and documentation you were given that this was your excavation manager peter luck of provided us with the plans he reconstructed from that it isnt from some small decorative elements as we were able to model the whole bill. 3 d. The. On the to the field rear ended but 1st we made an aerial view of the whole thing then we set about reconstructing the whole columns that leads to the throne room and the 2nd one we constructed this colony of from elements found on the site was with us the overall blueprints of the room as well as the limestone bases of the college as a core and. With wheelchair however the rest of the columns are unwittingly so now its a complete reconstruction closer to the wood on the trunk of the columns was painted red tops or capitals at plant motifs and more brightly colored open all to them with a visual visit to just look through it and then you imagine that for t. T. Living in this palace. To feel absolutely nothing t. T. Like they lived here in our youth. So if we can assume that nephi t. T. Was indeed all morning in flames my cheek also have died down. Could her mommy still be there. Where should we start looking. In the 4th year of his rule never to tease husband i cannot and turned his land op side down looking revolutionised egypts traditional religion imposing veneration of just one gaunt otten the god of the song. Is called for in this thread you say that this is the birthplace of art in this and on the 1st absolutely or here in a temple that was read. Corrected by ramsey is the 2nd us around a century after arkansas to. Put in all likelihood its here or art in is a or the 1st idea that led to art is a big. It was here the ark in october built a temple dedicated to his new protective dady the sun god would only become the god once were on the other side of that door outside the temple complex you. Get gyptian is polytheistic religion in which they worshiped many dangers was replaced by a monotheistic want ot an ism. Turn turn in a collapsed contact temple archaeologists discovered wolf fragments dedicated to often be sculpted stones reveal the rising adoration of the song god they also demonstrate egypts prosperity joining the fajitas time. A wealth derived from living near the nile and its fertile shores. One excavating the fortifications around the khan and temple complex archaeologists discovered the foundations of a ruined and hitherto unknown temple it didnt even appear on official maps. Claudine and that much evidence linked to acknowledge in and never t. T. Including fragments of monumental statues were found here though nothing is left on the site today they must dig deep into the history of these temple