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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Explores the Pyramids of Giza as Egyptologists try to unravel the mysteries and decipher the clues b...

Egypt is home to one of the world's earliest civilizations, with its earliest settlements in norther...

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