In the case of original British episodes, PBS re-edited, re-branded and finally re-narrated them with various American voice artists.
#SECRETS OF THE LOST TOMB ANCIENT SERIES#
The US series includes some programs shown in other Channel 4 series (e.g. The first two seasons for each country were broadly similar, but thereafter diverged. The series originated in a series of the same name in the United Kingdom first shown by Channel 4 in 1999. Most programs incorporate primary source material, first-hand accounts, dramatic reenactments, and computer-generated imagery (CGI) to tell the story. The show generally follows an investigator or team of investigators exploring what modern science can tell us about some of the great mysteries of history. 4.Secrets of the Dead, produced by WNET 13 New York, is an ongoing PBS television series which began in 2000. His tomb is variously described as being concealed by a river, obscured by the trampling of horses, and located in a mysterious place known in Chinese as the Qinian Valley.
The apparent vanishing of the world-historical figure has proved a tantalising negative space to fill in with folklore. Polo also alleged that the slaves that attended his funeral were massacred by soldiers, who in turn were massacred by another group of soldiers, who in turn committed suicide, taking the knowledge of the grave’s whereabouts with them. Genghis Khan asked to be buried without markings according to a legend, while Marco Polo wrote that by the end of the 13th century his tomb was already a mystery. The undiscovered site of Genghis Khan’s tomb is assumed to be near Burkhan Khaldun, a mountain in the Khentii mountain range of northeastern Mongolia made sacred by Genghis Khan and repeatedly mentioned in the court-sanctioned Secret History of the Mongols. Genghis Khan died in August 1227, having founded the Mongol Empire, which stretched from the Pacific to the Mediterranean. The final burial site of Genghis Khan is another mystery that remains the subject of research and speculation. Image Credit: Alexander Tumenjargal / Alamy Stock Photo Other theories of her final resting place include the smuggling of her body by loyalists to the city of Taposiris Magna, and her unmarked burial in a Macedonian-Egyptian cemetery. A large part of the ancient city was destroyed and was swallowed by the encroaching sea. If the structure remained intact after the defeat of Ptolemaic Egypt, an earthquake in the 4th century AD would likely have finished it off. She is generally supposed to have committed suicide in order to avoid being paraded through the streets of Rome as part of a humiliating ritual of submission. Some accounts of her life, such as Plutarch’s, suggest the structure was completed by 30 BC in Alexandria, and that she may also have sought refuge inside it from Octavian, the future Roman Emperor Augustus. Despite Cleopatra being one of ancient Egypt’s most famous figures, ruling Ptolemaic Egypt between 51 and 30 BC, the mystery of her tomb has attended her legacy for centuries. CleopatraĪ limited number of sources provide suggestions about the possible location of Cleopatra’s tomb. This is despite multiple references to it in texts over the next thousand years and modern attempts to identify it. Though contemporary sources record its location at the crossroads of the major north-south and east-west arterial roads of Alexandria, it has never been found. But it was what happened to Alexander following his demise – his ‘life after death’ - which resulted in one of the great archaeological mysteries of the ancient Mediterranean. In his lifetime King Alexander III of Macedon, better known as Alexander the Great, forged one of the largest empires in ancient history.
There Augustus viewed the body of Alexander in 30 BC, while Emperor Caracalla visited the tomb in 215 AD. He was placed alongside his Ptolemaic successors in a communal tomb. This was perhaps done by Ptolemy himself, who proclaimed himself King of Egypt and inaugurated the Ptolemaic dynasty, or by his son and successor.Īlexander was reburied once more in Alexandria by Ptolemy Philopator (222/221-205 BC). He was first buried in Memphis, at an uncertain location, and then in the late 4th or early 3rd century BC, Alexander’s body was reburied in Alexandria. On its way from Babylon in a cart that allegedly took 2 years to construct, his body was intercepted in Syria by Ptolemy, one of Alexander’s generals, and redirected to Egypt. After Alexander the Great died in Babylon in 323 BC, his body underwent a convoluted series of funerary arrangements directed by his generals. Image Credit: PRISMA ARCHIVO / Alamy Stock Photoĭespite Alexander the Great having been buried in at least 3 tombs, none are known to contemporary archaeologists. An impression of Alexander’s funeral procession.
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