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

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

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

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

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...

The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb is revealed for the first time in color, thanks to colorization ...

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

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

Ancient pharaoh Akhenaten was almost lost to history. Canadian archaeologist Donald Redford, who unc...

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

Move over, King Tut: There's a new pharaoh on the scene. A team of top archaeologists and forensics ...

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...

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

Chronicles the rise and fall of the woman who eventually became known as Queen Nefertiti.