He's Ancient Egypt's mystery man: a 3500-year-old mummy with no name, no identity at all. Yet he's found in a secret cache with some of Egypt's most famous pharaohs. A closer look reveals an even stranger clue: He was hastily and clumsily mummified. And in ancient Egypt, an anonymous and improper burial was a fate worse than death. Was this man purposely denied the one thing every Egyptian most wanted: the chance for eternal life? Our story goes step-by-step through the evidence and shows how the latest scientific discoveries are shedding new light on this baffling case. Who was he? How did he die? What crime might he have committed to warrant such an ignoble end?
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