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.
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...
Shocking new evidence of highly advanced civilizations mounts as previously unexplored regions of th...
The film chronicles the last 3 years of Akhenaten -called "the heretic pharaoh"- and his wife Queen ...
Michael Wood travels through Syria and Iraq to uncover the story of Alexander the Great's decisive b...
The story of the Trojan Horse is probably one of the most famous stories ever told: after ten years ...
Outside the Sudanese capital Khartoum, the remains of an ancient city stand in the desert. Are you r...
This historical drama tells the story of Qin Shihuang, who unified China's vast territory and declar...
In this gripping investigation, archaeologist Pepi Papakosta is on a hunt for Alexander the Great's ...
By decoding ancient hieroglyphic texts, Jean-François Champollion gave voice to an enigmatic civiliz...
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the R...
A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-ab...
It is one of Egypt's enduring mysteries. What happened to Nefertiti and her husband, Akhenaten - the...
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of...
An examination of how Africa's mythological stories have served as the basis for the world religions...
In the Formative Period 4,000 years before the Incas and the arrival of the Conquistadors, Peru’s ea...
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his frien...
Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Pyramid is the only one to survive. Many believe that...
Tadushepa grows from a young princess from the Mitanni kingdom to the legendary Queen Nefertiti of E...