This documentary follows a team of archaeologists, mandated by the Louvre Museum, as they pick up where Egyptologist Auguste Mariette left-off with his discovery of the Serapeum tomb of the bull of Apis - one of the most sacred places in Saqqara, Egypt, in 1850. Mariette also managed to map out a network of underground tunnels leading to other burial sites that he did not have time to uncover. With exclusive access, we follow a team of archaeologists continue the research of Mariette.
With over 60 tombs, the Valley of the Kings is the most-famous burial ground on Earth. In the bigges...
3,200 years ago, Egypt is living the final hours of its golden age under the reign of Ramesses II. A...
Everyone has heard of Pamplona's Running of the Bulls, yet so few know much about it. Even fewer kno...
This special takes a 21st century approach to ancient history, bringing together the latest scientif...
For centuries, the Great Pyramids have fascinated Mankind. Patrice Pooyard's The Revelation Of The P...
Explores the Pyramids of Giza as Egyptologists try to unravel the mysteries and decipher the clues b...
This documentary follows a team of local archaeologists excavating never before explored passageways...
Professor Joann Fletcher explores what it was like to be a woman of power in ancient Egypt. Through ...
It is one of Egypt's enduring mysteries. What happened to Nefertiti and her husband, Akhenaten - the...
Looking for a forgotten city: off the coast of Egypt, just a few metres under the surface, but blank...
The adventurous life of Natacha Rambova (1897-1966), an American artist, born Winifred Kimball Shaug...
For over 4000 years, the Sphinx has puzzled all who have laid eyes on it. What is this crouching lio...
Hindu temples at Benares and Belur and the mythologies associated with them.
As part of a high-tech forensic probe into the demise of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, scientists us...
The BBC version of "King Tut In Color" documentary. A century after the world’s most exciting archae...
Howard Carter hunts for the tomb of the boy king Tutankhamun.