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

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

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

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 ...

Ancient pharaoh Akhenaten was almost lost to history. Canadian archaeologist Donald Redford, who unc...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra.

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...

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