medinat habu. is the massive mortuary temple ramasees the third left in
history as the monument to his memory professor Muhammad Saleh has offered to
guide Sanders around the site all what he had done had been recorded on the
walls of this temple in details Barama the third was a great king he ruled
Egypt for 31 years and some days we have here some scenes showing the king
bringing captives from Asia the people in the middle are asking the king and
God for mercy and the king is putting them under his feet all those faces are
fascinating because each one has different racial characters yes the
Egyptians were very good anatomists yes ramasees the third was
one of the last great warrior pharaohs of ancient Egypt his reign was a
constant chronicle of invasion and conflict with Egypt's neighbors these
conquests would have brought colossal riches to Egypt and one particular prize
seems to be recorded on the temple wall I'm here in the one of the inner
chambers of the mortuary temple of Ramses the third and the most exciting
for me most interesting part is this wall where there is a golden box
and it's being carried on golden poles
and above that golden box is a solar representation with wings and it doesn't
take too much of a stretch of the imagination to see that that golden box
was the Ark of the Covenant carried just as the Bible says on two golden poles
and above its winged cherubim exactly like the cherubim in the Bible according
to the Bible the Ark of the Covenant was crowned with two winged creatures known
as cherubim and every single pillar down this corridor every one of them has this
representation of two winged creatures exactly like the cherubim on top of the
Ark of the Covenant Sanders acknowledges that such images
are not uncommon in Egyptian antiquity but the sheer quantity of the symbols
that Medinet Habu sent a special message as one here one here one over there
further down extra ones this whole chamber seems to somehow be dedicated
and representing where Rama sees the third obtained his treasure and obtained
the ability to build probably the most magnificent temple in all of Egypt
but medinat habu was built during the final years of Rama's reign the looting
of Jerusalem had taken place much earlier so the holy stones are unlikely
to be buried here convinced that he has evidence of who took the ark and a
record of its capture Sounders now needs to identify a temple site that matches
the plunder of Jerusalem once again the ancient records are scoured for fresh
Clues written by his sons the so called Harris papyrus is a journal of ramasees
the Third's achievements his triumphs in battle and his great works at home amid
the heroic narrative one anomaly had gone almost unnoticed what stood out to
me was the fact that ramasees the third had built a temple
outside of Egypt which is not a normal occurrence for the Egyptian kings in a
place called la keep a cannon and there was another clue the papyrus reveals
that this unusual temple was built by Rama seized the third at the site where
he had received a consignment of treasure or tribute from the kingdom of
Judah for the Egyptian King to build a temple outside of his domain
purposefully just to receive the tribute it must have been a massive tribute and
according to Saunders the most likely source for this massive tribute was the
greatest treasure described in the Bible the wealth of Solomon's Temple and the
Ark of the Covenant
with a candidate for the temple identified Sanders needed to find the
modern location of the temple at Jahi Buckhannon very simply I had asked my
wife to go to The Times atlas of the world look in the index and see if there
was any valley vjh I anywhere in the index and she comes back to me
she says well there is a the hariya that looks similar djh I will that do I said
- well absolutely let's let's find out where this place is at which points
amazingly my hairs the back of my head jumped up because the area on the Atlas
was it exactly the spot where an Egyptian king would stop his armies if
he were marching from Egypt to Jerusalem the haria was a natural place for an
army to halt and regroup ahead the terrain changed
dramatically from flat desert to high hill passes and narrow valleys where an
invading force would be vulnerable garrisoned here it would also be the
logical place for them to build a temple if Sanders hunch is right the ancient
temple built by Rama seized the third and mentioned in the harris papyrus
should be located in the village of the haria in modern Israel if the temple is
there the foundation deposits of the temple would still be there and the
stones may very well be found in the temple deposits in that village
but the battles of the Holy Land do not just belong to Bible history
the haria is situated on the Middle East's most active political fault line
the West Bank this particular area has only recently
been handed over by Israel to the Palestinian Authority satisfying
biblical curiosity is not high on the Harriers priorities sanders has teamed
up with israeli guide Avner Peled to negotiate the political minefield of
present-day the area there's the center the hurryin look on the right this is
the road the Egyptians would have taken they would have walked of this road and
they come across these hills for the first time having come out of the desert
shalom pocket of krishna diarrhea jamie push bellies furnish um the daria
telegram i you don't know what's going to happen in the rear why is the
checkpoint in sutures this is the border this is the border
between us and the palestine area this bit here so the north is palestine we
still have the authorities the military sir yes we take that road you can but
you say that you don't know what if something can happen or not we're near
israeli curves i don't feel they're safe enough Mike you are my guest here and
it's quite dangerous for me as Israeli it would be better to take their bike as
well Sanders is disappointed Avner has decided that it's not safe for them to
travel on to the area because his car has his Rayleigh number place the
security situation is volatile their very presence could provoke a riot
a change of car a change of guide Sanders is back on his way to the area
but this time with an Arab companion Samia Kubb from the Palestinian Ministry
of Antiquities and archaeology the ministry have given permission for
Sanders to carry out a preliminary survey in Tahrir but they can't
guarantee his safety while he's there the children still stone cars we hope
they won't stone us but in any adventure there's some danger I am one has to face
that this is much too important a quest to worry about any dangers that might be
though
we are just in the inference of the oh yes look there's the sign
no sign today we are after all this time
I think we have to look for the center of the old town and you know what that
is yes yes because how many people live
here now about 18,000 people that's it's a bustling little town there's a good
market here for the Bedouins who are coming up on the south yes everybody
comes from the desert the first place they come to is that area so that hasn't
changed in 3,000 years in fact a lot has changed the village of history is now a
modern town development may well have smothered the foundations of a ruined
temple here
if Rama sees the third really was Shishak if his temple was here and if it
did hide the stones from the Ark of the Covenant the proof after all these years
may be buried too deep for Sanders to discover
I think that's all
we can't like the car here here
I'm speechless
as Sanders explores the area his conviction grows that waha RIA was a
logical place for the Egyptians to build a temple so the Egyptian army would come
from the south here though this temple and it overlooked the whole of the
Hebrides as far as the Uyghurs wonderful place to pretend but there's also
evidence for Sanders theory some of the building stones stand out from the
others its holes look at the how nicely squared off that is there's one over
there with holes here look at how nicely squared off that is there's one over
there with holes there's one here with holes and then there's all this other
rubbish look look at this different very nice pieces look finish the finish on
here yes it's perfectly shaped perfectly straight on the edges against look at
all the all this other stuff but they built ordinary fortresses with I mean
this is what they use to build fortresses they they spent a lot of time
and effort in cutting that stone they didn't you don't spend a lot of time and
effort cutting stones for these hovels or for for fortresses this is being
taken from a very very nice building there was a special building for you
everywhere Saunders looks he finds the random remnants of an older and more
carefully constructed building I mean this lintel for example is obviously
much older was cut a lot earlier and was broken before it was actually put into
place
nuts yeah massive rusty yeah this is relief look somebody's carved this and
this one there
the unusual decorations and well-cut blocks of stones scattered amongst the
ruins convinced sanders that a grander more impressive building once stood here
I don't think we can get see with any of the stones or Egyptian but they're
certainly older than this building when he came to the haria Sanders main worry
was that there'd be nothing left of any ancient buildings now he finds he has
the opposite problem with a plethora of ruins how will he ever find the
foundations of one ancient Egyptian temple beneath so much rubble
Jerusalem is the center for archaeological research in the Holy Land
here if anywhere Sanders will find the information that might help him narrow
his search for the temple in the turmoil of recent years more stones have been
thrown than excavated in the area around four haria but when Sanders researched
the records he found that archaeologists had once been busy there more than a
hundred and sixty years ago a Victorian explorer Edward Robinson traveled
through the area and described seeing the ruin of an ancient fortress like
Tower Sanders hadn't seen any such ruin on his visit to the town but could
Robinson have seen the remains of ramasees ancient temple the tower was
described as having one distinctive feature in its lower courses was a huge
well cut nine-foot stone at the Hebrew University Sanders enlists professor
Benjamin cutter to narrow down the search for the temple ruins well all I
can say is that the oldest photograph shows you exactly where the village was
80 years ago but what interests you of course is a view of the high part of
that village which is here the likely place of the castle the ruins of which
Robinson's oh and the survey mentions and I'd say that would should be looked
for here in this area a map a dream and the clue of a
nine-foot block of stone together tomorrow they could lead Sanders to the
stones on which the Ten Commandments were inscribed Sanders has returned to
the hariya aiming to locate the distinctive nine-foot stone which he
believes will be the clue to finding the ancient Egyptian temple of Ramses the
third finding one stone in a large town isn't easy but after asking several
locals if they know of its location at last he finds someone who does perhaps
he would know where that the nine-foot long stone is the big sir we want to
know where the biggest stone of all the villages were this alyc we see handful
mebiner haven't cut him off with academia
shark a military man pulled her
telemetry honey can you see me I want to transfer it now
he is talking that he thinks that it will be in there Hassan has a mean means
in English fortifications he says a number it's about three thousand years
ago good now where is it let's cook we want
to go and see it where is it he thinks that's over there and there's a side of
this town he may be forming signs so I can give it
this one it's quite large that's something no it's not enough speak
there's a nice large cut stone here but not 9-foot ah we're not looking for the
9-footer
you see this came for a different building look look at this please came
from a different look look here we go so here we go yes there it is
finding the nine-foot stone is an exciting discovery but for Sanders it's
real significance is that it should mark the location of the ancient Egyptian
temple built by ramasees the third
this war is is absolutely incredible in comparison to the rest of the village
everything else has been reused why because it's practical for builders to
reuse small blocks of stone when you're building a house when you're building a
fortress you build in normal sized blocks it's only when you build
something that is dedicated to a God that has some special spiritual
significance that you use something out of the ordinary and there there is a
nine foot plus block of stone nobody in their right mind would spend time taking
that block and putting it in their house or putting it in a fortress why bother
you can by the time you've it's taken you to move that block of stone you
could have built four or five courses of a fortress so it's only when you're
building something absolutely special that you would use such stones and
they're obviously in the original position nobody's ever moved them they
were built especially for this building and this is not a fortress this is this
is something special
this is it now this well maybe this was put on
later this is rubbish that's a all right this is where it was
one of the corners of the original building the place where the small
foundation tablets would be buried is accessible and the wonderful wonderful
wonderful thing about this is nobody has touched it that since it was built I see
nobody has removed that stone if this was built by an Egyptian there will be a
foundation deposit under that I never believed that we would find this wool it
was like looking for a needle in a haystack I was I mean I I tried to
appear optimistic but looking around I thought this no way are we gonna find
this this building but here it is it's clean its pristine it's easy we can do
anything we want with it we will know it's a miracle
but finding the cornerstone is only half the battle
Sanders needs official permission to deed at present he can only examine the
ruins without disturbing them
next day Sanders has an appointment with the Minister for antiquities and
archeology he's the only man who can give them the vital permission to dig
under the cornerstone
time is an approximate commodity in the Middle East it's a two-hour wait before
Sanders learns that the minister is too busy to see him come back in two days
Sanders makes use of the delay to revisit the haria with him is
geophysicist Yuri Besson and the latest subsurface radar scanning technology
this will enable them to look for a telltale cavity under the wall without
any digging this bottom corner is where I think a foundation deposit may lie
so we need your advice in your health how do we find out whether there's a
cavity below that corner we have to clean a little bit especially to take
the metal metal out of here because the signal is affected from metals it is
even good that we have this kind of slope that this ground is sloping in
this way because we want to look in an 18 angle just underneath the wall yes
okay so it is perfect let's do it okay
we are ready
Oh a marketer Cornell
are we proceed now
okay we'll finish this profile let's go to the point that I think that something
is found there sure yeah something you think this is the location you see the
turn here curvature here I see evidence too strong anomaly which can be a cavity
it's located only two point three meters from our start position which is here
just keep in mind that this results our initial and we did not do any
sophisticated signal processing but still we see major anomaly here the
anomaly could be a cavity but its location doesn't fit Sanders theory it's
a few meters away from the cornerstone where any foundation deposit should be
buried maybe there be a clearer picture when Yuri goes back to the lab to
process the data in greater detail
confident that there is at least something to dig for Sammy and Sanders
go back for their delayed meeting with the minister
we have to go to the museum so we savvy knows the way yes we could go the
minister has been called out on pressing business Sanders and Samy give chase to
the museum where they hope to catch him but by the time they arrive the Minister
has already left for his next engagement
abandoning the futile pursuit of officialdom Sanders goes to see a fury
has got any more detailed results from the radar scans like I think I have a
little surprise for you look we found a second anomaly it looked as if it is a
cavity just underneath the corner under the car under under the corner of the
corneas exactly where they used to put foundation it was um this is the anomaly
that we saw in the field and underneath which was underneath about 2.5 meters at
a depth of about 1.5 1.6 meters but after our poses the data at the office
all of a sudden this anomaly came up
unless okay and the depth of the anomaly is roughly about three meters and it
might be cavity is there any way of determining if there are any objects in
that cavity
no that's not possible because it's too deep for this frequency to receive very
detailed information having discovered a cavity in exactly the right place for a
foundation deposit but still with our permission to excavate Sanders sets
about tracing the other corners of the ancient ruin but thousands of years of
destruction and rebuilding have taken their toll the other corners of the
original building have almost certainly been lost forever as his investigations
continue Sanders finds he's not the only one curious about what lies beneath the
ruins the rumor today of course around the village is that we're looking for
gold and there are 19 thousand people in this village and if the rumor becomes
more than a rumor in their own minds we may actually have the largest excavation
team of all time that'll clear all this away for us without us doing anything
they can look for gold we're looking for just a small plaque or a broken plaque
and a couple of scarabs and maybe a cartouche and hopefully a cartouche
Aramis is the third because I believe that this temple and I believe it's
really and an Egyptian temple was built by ramasees the third
at last sanders and sammy get to see the elusive minister
how do we get out of here
nonsense stupid buggers
where did he find such a lot we can't do any procedures procedures no scanning no
procedures we had permission and he said well it started to do with with the
political establishment whatever they want who cares
there's a law there's an antiquities law we need to make an application we got to
have a scientific institution we're gonna have financial backing what we
want to do is dig three inches to find the financial foundation deposits they
want to make a big issue areas
the midea the director
you know that he is my he is my boss and I can't do nothing I have to accept his
orders to just to continue filming and not for digging I am NOT angry with that
we can't clear the rubbish but we can make lots of applications we can write
lots of forms we can work with beers at University
and
there's nothing we can do today
like so many other archaeologists working in this politically difficult
area Sanders has been frustrated just as he is on the brink of a breakthrough he
has found the remains of a massive and ancient structure one whose quality is
quite distinct from others around it and there's a tantalizing cavity under one
of the corners which points to the wall having been built by ancient Egyptians
if the cavities do contain any Egyptian foundation deposits he will have proof
of a new previously unknown Egyptian temple built outside Egypt a major
advance in the scholarship of the region
I'm absolutely convinced that if the two cavities are open we will find evidence
that Rama sees the third built that temple whether the Bible's Ten
Commandments lie buried here no one can say but the trail of clues unearthed by
Saunders has brought him so far and revealed so much that he feels convinced
that he's on the right track I can't give up with too close to what
could be the most important discovery of our generation Mike Sanders is still
trying to persuade the Palestinian authorities to give him permission to
excavate under the cornerstone whatever is in that underground cavity is too
intriguing a mystery to remain a secret forever
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