Buried in Silence

The city that created Egypt has never been found. Thinis was the capital of history's first nation-state, home to the pharaohs who unified Egypt and invented writing, law, and kingship. Five thousand years later, it has vanished without a trace. This is the story of what was built there, and the extraordinary search to find it.

The city that created Egypt has never been found. Thinis was the capital of history's first nation-state, home to the pharaohs who unified Egypt and invented writing, law, and kingship. Five thousand years later, it has vanished without a trace. This is the story of what was built there, and the extraordinary search to find it.