Narrator : Gordon Griffin
Egypt 2153 BC, eighty priests set out under cover of darkness into the western
desert, taking with them a mysterious object swathed in cloth. Four weeks
later, having reached their destination, they calmly slit each other's throats...
Albania, 1986 A plane takes off from a remote airfield, bound for the Sudan.
On board, a cargo that will forever change the Middle East. Somewhere over the
Sahara the plane disappears...
The western desert, the present day, A group of Bedouin discover a mummified
corpse half-buried in the dunes. With it are a roll of camera film and
a miniature clay obelisk inscribed with a curious hieroglyphic sign...
Three unconnected events, or so it seems until Freya Hannen arrives in Egypt
for the funeral of her sister, a desert explorer who has inexplicably taken
her own life...For Freya it is the start of a terrifying, life-or-death
adventure - one that will lead her and Egyptologist Flin Brodie deep into the
forbidding wastes of the Sahara. Their goal: one of archaeology's greatest
mysteries and the astonishing secret at its heart.
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