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 ...

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

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...

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

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

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

Around 800 BC, Kush, a little-known subject state of Egypt, rose up and conquered the Egyptians, ent...

What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the R...

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

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

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

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

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