Wadi Sura II

What the Show Claims

• ›Ancient Aliens discusses the 24 enormous sarcophagi found deep beneath Egyptian sands that are empty. The show suggests these perfectly carved 70-ton stone boxes may have been designed by otherworldly visitors rather than humans.

What Archaeology Says

The Valley of the Sarcophagi (Wadi Sura II) in southwestern Egypt contains dozens of rock-cut chambers with massive granite sarcophagi. These date to the Late Period and Ptolemaic era and were likely burial chambers, though many were plundered in antiquity.