Discovery Channel Canada broke its own highest audience numbers record with the one-hour special King Tut’s Mystery Tomb Opened on Sunday night, drawing 407,000 viewers A25-54 and 314,000 viewers A18-49 (9 p.m. ET/10 p.m. PT). They were the highest numbers recorded by BBM/NMR Research for the channel’s 11-year history, breaking a previous record set with the program Nefertiti Resurrected, which attracted 371,000 viewers in that demo when it premiered in August 2003.

The lead-in companion special, Egypt’s New Tomb Revealed (8 p.m. ET/9 p.m. PT), attracted 263,000 viewers A25-54 and 193,000 A18-49. These gains represent an increase of 109% and 56% over October 2005’s average for the Discovery Presents timeslot. Discovery will air an encore presentation of Egypt’s New Tomb Revealed tonight (8 p.m. ET/9 p.m. PT), followed by a repeat broadcast of King Tut’s Mystery Tomb Opened (9 p.m. ET/10 p.m. PT).