List of episodes of the series «Chasing Mummies»

  • Seasons count: 1
  • Episodes count: 10
Stuck
Release date: 7/14/2010

Stuck

  • Episode number: 1
  • Episode description:
    Zahi supervises the restoration of the Step Pyramid; Lindsay almost loses her job; Zoe gets locked inside the pyramid and Zahi races to save her.
Trapped
Release date: 7/21/2010

Trapped

  • Episode number: 2
  • Episode description:
    Zahi takes a final journey to the Five Chambers pyramid to document the ancient graffiti on the walls and prove his theory; a near-death experience leaves all gasping for air.
Lost
Release date: 7/28/2010

Lost

  • Episode number: 3
  • Episode description:
    Most people experience something rare or exceptional once or twice in a lifetime, but Zahi Hawass, unimpeded by his tireless lust for adventure, lives many lifetimes in a single day; Zahi moves from a dig site in Saqqara...descending deep underground to uncover a cache of mummies; to the Workmen's Cemetery; and finally, discovers a rare and important piece of Egyptian history...a beautiful anthropoid sarcophagus from the 26th Dynasty! After a day like that, anyone would be ready to end their day...not Zahi...he's going to party at one of Cairo's latest hotspots!
Discovered
Release date: 8/4/2010

Discovered

  • Episode number: 4
  • Episode description:
    Army maneuvers have shut down the guys journey to restore an ancient minaret and now they must take a treacherous journey through the White Desert to camp overnight.
Sunken
Release date: 8/11/2010

Sunken

  • Episode number: 5
  • Episode description:
    Zahi permits archaeologists from the Hellenic Institute to dive into the Mediterranean Sea and bring up a nine-ton pylon that is a confirmed part of Cleopatra's historic shrine.
Robbed
Release date: 8/18/2010

Robbed

  • Episode number: 6
  • Episode description:
    Zahi heads to Sheikh Sobey and discovers an amazing mummy inside a sarcophagus; a missing piece of an offering table is headed back to Karnak Temple in Luxor from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Meltdown
Release date: 8/25/2010

Meltdown

  • Episode number: 7
  • Episode description:
    Zahi is getting ready to open two sealed tombs for the first time in thousands of years, but Zoe is late again; At the ``Festival of the Sacrifice,'' Derek and Allan begin to learn about the customs and traditions of their host country.
Bats
Release date: 9/1/2010

Bats

  • Episode number: 8
  • Episode description:
    Zahi goes to the Giza Plateau to explore caves beneath the plateau in an effort to disprove a theory about underground passages to the Sphinx, but he has to contend with the bats that dwell there; and he agrees to attend a local wedding celebration.
Cursed
Release date: 9/8/2010

Cursed

  • Episode number: 9
  • Episode description:
    Alice, the marine archaeologist from Alexandria, wants to ask Zahi for a spot in the fellowship program; Zahi wants to see if the long-forgotten Falcon Galleries can be restored as a new tourist destination.
Buried
Release date: 9/15/2010

Buried

  • Episode number: 10
  • Episode description:
    Zahi's truly-devoted archaeological workers name a brand new tomb complex in Luxor after their boss; the crew goes deep underground to discover five intact burials and a murdered mummy.