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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Explores the Pyramids of Giza as Egyptologists try to unravel the mysteries and decipher the clues b...

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

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

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

The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.

On the mythical site of Saqqara, the Apis bulls were buried for more than a thousand years in the im...
1960s Egyptian documentary showing scenes of local life along the banks of the River Nile, with narr...

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