Lost Treasures of Tanis: The Discovery That Rivaled Tutankhamun

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Lost Treasures of Tanis: The Discovery That Rivaled Tutankhamun

The greatest archaeological discovery after Tutankhamun and almost no one knows i

After the discovery of Tutankhamun, it stands as one of the most important archaeological finds of the 20th century — yet it remains largely unknown to the public.

In 1939, French archaeologist Pierre Montet made an extraordinary discovery at Tanis, a forgotten site in the Nile Delta. While searching for traces of the Hebrew people, Montet uncovered a series of royal tombs belonging to the last pharaohs of ancient Egypt, tombs that had remained completely untouched for over 3,000 years.

The timing could not have been worse. Just as the discovery was announced, World War II erupted. Overshadowed by global conflict and by Howard Carter’s famous discovery of Tutankhamun years earlier, the treasures of Tanis quietly slipped into obscurity.

Yet what Montet revealed was astonishing. Between 1939 and 1946, he uncovered intact royal burials, including those of Psusennes I and Sheshonq II. Golden masks, untouched mummies, and vast funerary riches emerged from the sand discoveries comparable to, and in some ways rivaling, Tutankhamun’s tomb. Today, these treasures can be admired at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and the Louvre.

Covering more than 200 hectares, three times the size of Pompeii, Tanis is still far from fully explored. Under the direction of François Leclère, French teams now return to the site using magnetometers and modern scanning technologies to reveal the lost capital of Egypt’s final dynasties.

Through rare archival footage, historical photographs, and on-site filming of ongoing excavations, this documentary uncovers the story of a forgotten discovery and the archaeologist who made it, in what may be the most overlooked chapter in the history of Egyptology.

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