National Geographic - Egyptian Secrets of the Afterlife

A journey to the afterlife...

To the ancient Egyptians, life after death was a high stakes underworld journey fraught with terrifying obstacles: fiery lakes of death, battles with bona fide monsters and ultimately eternal death, or resurrection with the sun. It's a journey each Egyptian believed was real, and for the pharaoh the stakes were even higher - the entire cosmos depended on the king's successful journey & resurrection.

Now, new excavations are revealing more than we've ever known about what the Egyptians knew they'd encounter on their afterlife journey. And we're finding that the king's tomb wasn't just a place to keep his mummified corpse. The royal tomb was nothing less than a machine constructed to guarantee the king's resurrection + eternal life.