Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
How did a secret Egyptian tomb come to hold the mummies of Ramesses II, Seti I, Thutmose III, Ahmose I, and other great rulers of ancient Egypt?
TT320, also known as the Royal Cache at Deir el-Bahri, is one of the most extraordinary archaeological discoveries in the history of Egypt — a tomb where ancient priests hid kings, a local family kept the secret for years, and archaeologists later managed to save its contents in just 48 hours.
But the real mystery is not only which mummies were found inside.
The deeper question is why so many pharaohs were removed from their own tombs and hidden together in a narrow corridor.
The story begins centuries before the discovery of TT320.
In this documentary episode, you’ll discover:
00:00 How artifacts from an unknown tomb began appearing on the European market
00:52 What the TT320 tomb is
01:47 Why the priests moved the pharaohs’ mummies
03:20 Pinedjem II and the priestly family buried in the cache
03:45 How Ramesses II was moved from KV7 to TT320
04:29 What happened to Seti I
05:39 The legend of how the royal cache was discovered
05:50 Is the story of the lost goat actually true?
06:28 The Abd el-Rassul family and the Deir el-Bahri cache
06:45 How Gaston Maspero learned about the unknown royal tomb
09:24 The government begins emptying TT320
09:47 Émile Brugsch and Ahmed Kamal take over the operation
10:22 Which pharaohs were found in TT320
11:58 Who was the tomb originally built for?
12:27 The archaeological disaster of 1881
12:39 What was lost forever during the clearance
14:03 The mysteries surrounding TT320 that remain unsolved
And the story holds one more mystery.
Among the great pharaohs in TT320 are mummies whose identities remain unknown.
One of them would remain unidentified for more than a century, until modern science began using genetic testing to uncover who was really lying beneath the ancient linen wrappings.
TT320 is a story of three very different kinds of “rescue.”
Three thousand years ago, priests removed the kings from their tombs to protect them.
In the 19th century, people began removing the objects around them to sell them.
And in 1881, archaeologists removed everything that remained in order to save it.
The bodies survived.
The story of how they got there survived only in part.
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How did a secret Egyptian tomb come to hold the mummies of Ramesses II, Seti I, Thutmose III, Ahmose I, and other great rulers of ancient Egypt?
TT320, also known as the Royal Cache at Deir el-Bahri, is one of the most extraordinary archaeological discoveries in the history of Egypt — a tomb where ancient priests hid kings, a local family kept the secret for years, and archaeologists later managed to save its contents in just 48 hours.
But the real mystery is not only which mummies were found inside.
The deeper question is why so many pharaohs were removed from their own tombs and hidden together in a narrow corridor.
The story begins centuries before the discovery of TT320.
In this documentary episode, you’ll discover:
00:00 How artifacts from an unknown tomb began appearing on the European market
00:52 What the TT320 tomb is
01:47 Why the priests moved the pharaohs’ mummies
03:20 Pinedjem II and the priestly family buried in the cache
03:45 How Ramesses II was moved from KV7 to TT320
04:29 What happened to Seti I
05:39 The legend of how the royal cache was discovered
05:50 Is the story of the lost goat actually true?
06:28 The Abd el-Rassul family and the Deir el-Bahri cache
06:45 How Gaston Maspero learned about the unknown royal tomb
09:24 The government begins emptying TT320
09:47 Émile Brugsch and Ahmed Kamal take over the operation
10:22 Which pharaohs were found in TT320
11:58 Who was the tomb originally built for?
12:27 The archaeological disaster of 1881
12:39 What was lost forever during the clearance
14:03 The mysteries surrounding TT320 that remain unsolved
And the story holds one more mystery.
Among the great pharaohs in TT320 are mummies whose identities remain unknown.
One of them would remain unidentified for more than a century, until modern science began using genetic testing to uncover who was really lying beneath the ancient linen wrappings.
TT320 is a story of three very different kinds of “rescue.”
Three thousand years ago, priests removed the kings from their tombs to protect them.
In the 19th century, people began removing the objects around them to sell them.
And in 1881, archaeologists removed everything that remained in order to save it.
The bodies survived.
The story of how they got there survived only in part.
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