Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs

[Streams FREE as part of the Omnifest at Home 2020 at the William L. McKnight 3M Omnitheater at the Science Museum of Minnesota's Omni Theater; for more information, log on to smm.org/omnifest or call 651/221-9444.] Christopher Lee narrates this intriguing, educational, 45-minute, 2007 IMAX documentary that reenacts when hieroglyphics translator Charles Wilbour (William Hope) discovered more than forty royal mummies, including Rameses the Great, in the Valley of the Kings in July 1881 and showcases scientists Bob Brier and Angelique Corthals researching the secret of the 3,000-year-old mummification process and the best way to extract DNA from Egyptian mummies by creating a modern-day mummy.
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