Need help in recognizing a word

Hello everyone,

I am not quite sure this is the appropriate sub-forum, or even the website as a whole, for this kind of question. However, I sort of need a quick response, and since English is not my mother tongue, I supposed some of you here, native speakers or expert masters of the English language, could offer some help.

I need to write the transcript of a National Geographic video as a part of a job I have, but there's one word that I simply cannot grasp even after tens and hundreds of repetitions.

The obscure word is uttered at 04:25 - "..of the ??? of ancient Egypt."

Thanks in advance!