For over 4000 years, the Sphinx has puzzled all who have laid eyes on it. What is this crouching lion, human-headed creature? Who built it and why? To unlock its secrets, two teams of scientists and sculptors immerse themselves in the world of ancient Egypt — a land of pharaohs and pyramids, animal gods and mummies, sun worship and human sacrifice.

Howard Carter hunts for the tomb of the boy king Tutankhamun.

5000 years ago the ancient Elamites established a glorious civilization that lasted about three mill...

Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeatin...
Follow from the amazing restoration process of one of the most cherished and mysterious pieces of Hi...

Travel to ancient Egypt to see how science was used to tell time, make a workable calendar, and alig...

Egypt's only modernist architect Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was committed to ecology and sustainabilit...

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

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

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

This special takes a 21st century approach to ancient history, bringing together the latest scientif...

Nefertiti's Daughters is a story of women, art and revolution. Told by prominent Egyptian artists, t...

Rome was famed for the decadence of its ruling class, however, what about the ordinary citizens of t...

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

Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-...

Follows Bradley - only the third American coach to manage a foreign team - his wife, Lindsay, his st...

Experts look into the mystery surrounding the lost tomb of Queen Nefertiti, an ancient Egyptian rule...

Explores the development of methods that allowed the architects of ancient Egypt to build Karnak, th...

Through their fieldwork, scientists bring to life a lost and unknown chapter of ancient Egypt, and w...