Professor Bettany Hughes takes viewers on a journey of discovery as she investigates 10 of the greatest and most intriguing Egyptian mummies - and the secrets that lie beneath the bandages. Having remained in their tombs for thousands of years, wrapped, embalmed and buried with treasure, each mummy tells the story of the criminals, priests, children and pharaohs of Ancient Egypt.

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

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

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

In this gripping investigation, archaeologist Pepi Papakosta is on a hunt for Alexander the Great's ...

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

Forensic experts scan Pompeii’s victims to investigate why they didn’t escape the eruption.

The Scythians, skilled horsemen and nomadic conquerors, built a feared empire in the vast Eurasian s...

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

This historical drama tells the story of Qin Shihuang, who unified China's vast territory and declar...

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

The 1st queen of the king dies in child birth, the prince survives. After the 2nd queen, gives birth...

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

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

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

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

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