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 ...

Tadushepa grows from a young princess from the Mitanni kingdom to the legendary Queen Nefertiti of E...

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

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

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

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 ...

Dr Glenn Godenho goes on the hunt for the tomb of Cleopatra.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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