Looking for a forgotten city: off the coast of Egypt, just a few metres under the surface, but blanketed by sand and mud, slumbers the ancient port of Heracleion.

3,200 years ago, Egypt is living the final hours of its golden age under the reign of Ramesses II. A...

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

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

The BBC version of "King Tut In Color" documentary. A century after the world’s most exciting archae...

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...

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

January 2011: a team from the University of Basel makes two spectacular discoveries. The first was a...

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

Professor Joann Fletcher explores what it was like to be a woman of power in ancient Egypt. Through ...

On the mythical site of Saqqara, the Apis bulls were buried for more than a thousand years in the im...

At around 3,500 years old, the Ebers Papyrus is the oldest completely preserved medical manual in th...

This documentary follows a team of local archaeologists excavating never before explored passageways...

After 20 years seeking Cleopatra's tomb, archaeologist K. Martinez's search shifts to an underwater ...

For over 4000 years, the Sphinx has puzzled all who have laid eyes on it. What is this crouching lio...

With over 60 tombs, the Valley of the Kings is the most-famous burial ground on Earth. In the bigges...

The adventurous life of Natacha Rambova (1897-1966), an American artist, born Winifred Kimball Shaug...