In the shadows of the ancient pyramids of Giza,
archaeologists continue to unearth the pharaonic secrets of 2500 years ago.
This is the final resting place of a priestess named Hetpet.
It's the latest tumb in this region
to bring egyptologists flocking.
Almost two millenia after the death of the last pharaoh,
the Egyptian authorities announce more or less weekly a new discovery.
This vast statue of Ramesses II was found in a residential area last year,
and some experts are convinced it's just the start.
"Every king had to build here,
make statues, temples,
obelisks, everything..."
Crucial to this latest phase of discovery,
is archaeologists decision to embrace technology.
At the Kheops pyramid last autumn,
researchers armed with powerful scanners
discovered a hidden cavity large enough to fit a plane.
The plan now is to drill a 3-centimetre hole through the wall
and send in a robot to find out what's inside.
And it's not just the pyramids benefiting from the latest scanning innovations.
Tanis, in the Nile delta,
is home to an entire city
buried just metres under the sand.
"This is the location of the largest neighbourhoods of the ancient city of Tanis.
There are millions of these fragments here,
because the site is enormous.
It's more than 200 hectares.
For years,
the prospect of mapping the area was unthinkable.
But now this machine,
a magnetometer,
allows archaeologists to effectively see what's under the earth
no digging required.
"We can see the plan of the houses,
the remains of settlements.
The data collected by a computer eventually providing an accurate map of the buried world.
At present,
Tanis only attracts 1000 tourists each year.
Egyptian authorities are hoping that,
as these latest technologies bears ever more fruit,
that number will grow.
