Five thousand four hundred years ago, a two-year-old black boy had been buried under a rock shelter. His body was carefully eviscerated and prepared for mummification, then lovingly wrapped in antelope skin. He was the oldest mummy ever found in Africa and until he was unearthed, everyone thought the Egyptians had invented mummification in Africa. After discovering the oldest mummy ever found in Africa, a group of archaeologists set out quest that spanned almost 50 years. They searched throughout the continent for clues about who could have buried it--and why it was found 1,000 miles away from Egypt, the civilization previously thought to be the first to mummify their dead. Their trail lead them to a long lost African culture that had influenced the development of ancient Egypt in ways which no one had ever thought possible.