The Mystery of the Rascar Capac Mummy

Rascar Capac, the sinister creature featured on Hergé's album The Seven Crystal Balls (1948), has left its mark on many generations of readers. To draw it, the Belgian cartoonist was probably inspired by a mummy exhibited in the first pre-Columbian exhibition organized by the Brussels Cinquantenaire Museum in 1923. Two intrepid archaeologists embark on a fascinating journey to reconstruct the story of the mysterious mummy.

2019

Documentary·History·TV Movie

0h 52min

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Héléna Noguerra
Self - Narrator (voice)
Dominique Maricq
Self - Writer
Serge Lemaitre
Self - Archaeologist
Caroline Tilleux
Self - Archaeologist
Luc Delvaux
Self - Egyptologist
André Delpuech
Self - Archaeologist
Étienne Danse
Self - Radiologist
Jean-Philippe Hastir
Self - Scanner Technician
Elva Clara Torres Pino
Self - Anthropologist
Jean-Bernard Huchet
Self - Archaeoentomologist
Mathieu Boudin
Self - Carbon-14 Technician
Jean-Claude Alvarez
Self - Toxicologist
Alexandre Chevalier
Self - Archaeobotanist
Berta Mariela Santos Varela
Self - Museum Curator
Susana Monsalve
Self - Biologist
Juan Pablo Ogalde Herrera
Self - Anthropologist

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