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.
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