Discovery will be doing a new 2-hour show from Egypt, Expedition Unknown: Egypt Live, with presenter and explorer Josh Gates, and the world-renowned Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass, who will look for ancient artefacts and open an Egyptian sarcophagus for the very first time.
Expedition Unknown: Egypt Live will be broadcast on Discovery Chanel (DStv 121) on 7 April in the United States as a live special-event broadcast, but Discovery tells TVwithThinus it won't be shown or be live in South Africa and Africa on this date although an edited version is planned for broadcast on the Discovery Channel in late-May 2019 at a date to still be confirmed.
"This is Discovery at its best, as we seek to uncover history that has been buried in the sands of Egypt for millennia," says Nancy Daniels, chief brand officer, Discovery & Factual, in a statement announcing Expedition Unknown: Egypt Live.
"I'm excited as Josh Gates takes us on one of his most ambitious expeditions yet."
Josh Gates will be joined by world-renowned Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass, and Mostafa Waziri, the secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt with the TV special that will be produced by Discovery Studios and Ping Pong Productions in association with Big Dreams Entertainment with Leslie Greif as executive producer.
In Expedition Unknown: Egypt Live, viewers will have the rare opportunity to see the inner chambers of an excavation site, where archaeologists recently uncovered a network of vertical shafts leading to an underground network of tunnels and tombs with 40 mummies believed to be part of the noble elite.
The massive underground complex of chambers is a treasure trove of antiquities – all laying undisturbed for thousands of years. But there are several chambers yet to be explored – and many more discoveries to be revealed, including a mysterious limestone sarcophagus, found buried deep within the complex.
The identity of the mummy inside has been a mystery for 3,000 years… Possibly until now.
The identity of the mummy inside has been a mystery for 3,000 years… Possibly until now.
