On January 3, 2006, PBS aired a NOVA documentary entitled “The Mummy Who Would Be King” portraying the story of a neglected mummy’s one hundred fifty year journey from Egypt to a museum in Niagara Falls, then Emory University, and finally back to its original resting spot. This mummy, however, returned not as an ordinary ancient Egyptian relic, but as the lost Pharaoh Ramese I. With help from the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University, a member institution of the American Research Institute in Egypt (ARCE) and its Curator Peter Lacovara, an ARCE member and lecturer, the mummy was determined to be that of the 3,000 year old founder of the 19th dynasty. The mummy has not only sparked fascination in Egyptology, but “the return of the Ramese mummy has done more for Egyptian-American relations than anything else in the past two year,” said former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt David Welch. The Carlos Museum acquired the mummy in 1998 after the Niagara Falls museum closed. The documentary “captures an in-depth and truly international investigation that requires the best of modern science and old-fashioned archeological analysis” states NOVA on their website.