:16:00
They say l don't have enough experience
in the field.
:16:08
You'll always have me, old mum.
:16:14
Besides, l have just the thing
to cheer you up.
:16:16
No, Jonathan,
not another worthless trinket.
:16:20
lf l have to take one more piece
of junk to the curator to try and...
:16:23
...sell for you....
:16:28
Where did you get this?
:16:30
On a dig down in Thebes.
:16:33
My whole life l've never found anything.
Please tell me l've found something.
:16:42
-Jonathan.
-Yes?
:16:45
l think you've found something.
:16:51
See the cartouche.
:16:52
lt's the official royal seal of Seti the First,
l'm sure of it.
:16:55
-Perhaps.
-Two questions:
:16:57
Who the hell was Seti the First,
and was he rich?
:17:00
He was the second pharaoh
of the 19th dynasty...
:17:03
...the wealthiest pharaoh of all.
:17:04
Good. l like this fellow.
:17:06
-l like him a lot.
-l've already dated the map.
:17:08
lt's almost 3,000 years old.
And if you look at the hieratic just here...
:17:13
...it's Hamunaptra.
:17:14
Dear God, don't be ridiculous.
:17:17
We're scholars, not treasure hunters.
:17:19
Hamunaptra's a myth
told by ancient Arab storytellers...
:17:22
...to amuse Greek and Roman tourists.
:17:24
l know all the blather that the city
is protected by the curse of a mummy...
:17:28
...but my research leads me to believe
that the city may have actually existed.
:17:33
Do you mean the Hamunaptra?
:17:35
Yes. The City of the Dead...
:17:37
...where the pharaohs presumably hid
the wealth of Egypt.
:17:40
Yes, in a big underground
treasure chamber.
:17:44
Come on. Everybody knows the story.
:17:46
The necropolis was rigged to sink
into the sand on Pharaoh's command.
:17:49
Turn a switch and it would disappear
into the sand with the treasure.
:17:53
As the Americans would say,
it's all fairy tales and hokum--
:17:56
My goodness! Look at that!