A real-life Indiana Jones adventure and a modern day journey to extract clues about our past, the new IMAX® film MUMMIES: SECRETS OF THE PHARAOHS journeys back thousands of years to unravel the wonders of ancient Egypt.

Narrated by actor Christopher Lee, MUMMIES features top researchers, including Egyptologist Dr. Bob Brier.

Brier made international headlines in 1994 when he and his colleague, Ronald Wade, became the first people in 2,000 years to mummify a human cadaver in the ancient Egyptian manner. Brier, Senior Research Fellow at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, New York, was a visiting professor at the University of Louisville in 2004.

In MUMMIES, Brier works with a DNA specialist to check in on the progress of the modern mummy he created and to conduct key genetic testing. The film includes a scientific first—a discovery that could help researchers understand how ancient diseases have evolved into modern-day counterparts.

MUMMIES takes viewers on a journey back thousands of years, to the age of the great pharaohs, to explore why mummification was so vital to ancient Egyptian life. Part historic journey and part forensic adventure, MUMMIES follows researchers and explorers as they piece together the archaeological and genetic clues of Egyptian mummies. Through ambitious computer graphics and dramatic reconstructions, the film tells the story of one of the greatest finds in modern history: the late 19th century discovery of a cache of forty mummies, including twelve Kings of Egypt, among them the legendary Rameses the Great.