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This three part mini-series examines the items in Pharaoh Tutankhamen's tomb and determines what can be gleamed from them to form a bigger picture of the famous Egyptian monarch. It's informative although I'm no Egyptologist. It is a little dry and it would be nice to place this in the ancient world.

The episode entitled "Golden... (something or other) " addresses Tut's iron-bladed dagger (one of two dagger's in Tut's tomb- the other with a golden blade). The narrator states that "it has always been on display tucked away in a rarely visited corner" or something to that effect. This is not accurate. U.S. Egyptologists omitted mention of it for decades mentioning only the golden bladed dagger or outright denying its existence. It's anachronistic existence was an embarrassment and had sparked a theory that it was of ET origin. Which, technically, it proved to be.

There is still a self-serving narrative that Egypt's ministry of antiquities has maintained and any foreign egyptologist seeking access has bowed to these unproven theories (such as: the insistence that no slaves were used to construct the great pyramid; the omission of its underground chambers; that it is merely Khufu's tomb; the broken handle to the shaft that we are asked to believe was stolen. The theory of a 2nd parallel gallery arose decades ago, and only now has recent testing made it all but undeniable).