Egypt is home to one of the world's earliest civilizations, with its earliest settlements in northern Africa dating to 17000 BC. Ancient Egypt was a powerful, influential, and expansionist empire that grew from the Nile River Valley to include much of the eastern Mediterranean. The civilization brought many inventions and advancements, including agriculture, art, architecture, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, religion, writing, and so much more.

The film chronicles the last 3 years of Akhenaten -called "the heretic pharaoh"- and his wife Queen ...

Around 800 BC, Kush, a little-known subject state of Egypt, rose up and conquered the Egyptians, ent...

This program presents the stories of the works of architecture regarded by the Greeks and Romans as ...

Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Pyramid is the only one to survive. Many believe that...

Move over, King Tut: There's a new pharaoh on the scene. A team of top archaeologists and forensics ...

Egypt's two greatest Pharaohs, Khufu and Ramesses II, built their way to immortality through archite...

Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of...

Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...

By decoding ancient hieroglyphic texts, Jean-François Champollion gave voice to an enigmatic civiliz...

In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his frien...

It is one of Egypt's enduring mysteries. What happened to Nefertiti and her husband, Akhenaten - the...

What killed King Tutankhamun? Ever since his spectacular tomb was discovered, the boy king has been ...


A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-ab...

Almost 100 years after the discovery of King's Tut's Tomb, it is time to tell the story in a new lig...

Around 3,000 BC, the first territorial state in history was created with the unification of Upper an...

Examines the history of the African kings from Kush who conquered Egypt and ruled over it for 1500 y...

As part of a high-tech forensic probe into the demise of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, scientists us...