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 ...

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

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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