This documentary is a journey among the most beautiful archaeological finds Egypt has left us. Kha, architect and builder of tombs for the pharaohs, must undertake the journey to the Underworld.

Telling us the story of his voyage is the Oscar Winner Jeremy Irons, in the guise of a narrator. His words take us inside the secret world of Egyptian mythology, religion, and funerary culture, interweaving the story with the history of the oldest museum in the world, the Museo Egizio in Turin, founded in 1824 and celebrated its 200th anniversary in 2024. In fact, Kha’s own tomb is to be found in Turin along with the most complete and most valuable private collection of grave goods outside of Egypt.

It is also a journey along the Nile — the magnificent monuments of Giza, Luxor, Karnak, to the Valley of the Kings and the workers’ village of Deir el-Medina—the story told by Irons follows the tracks of Italian explorers and archaeologists. Their itineraries also lead to the exhibition halls of the Cairo Museum, the Ägyptischen Museum in Berlin, the British Museum in London, and the Louvre in Paris.