It was an archaeological find that became global news. An extraordinary mega-tomb, filled with the largest concentration of coffins ever unearthed in Saqqara, Egypt. This four-part series places you at the site to witness this ground-breaking discovery as it happened and follows Egyptologists as they try to determine why all of these mummies were buried together and what this ancient cemetery can tell us about the Egyptian civilization's way of death 2,500 years ago.

The construction of the Egyptian pyramids remains an enigma, an unsolved mystery. But today, Egyptol...

Millions of tourists visit Angkor Wat in Cambodia every year to marvel at its remarkable architectur...

It is said to be one of the oldest books in the world. Has it been altered? If yes why? A remarkable...

Journalist and writer Graham Hancock travels the globe hunting for evidence of mysterious, lost civi...

A mission to discover and re-create unexcavated worlds still hidden beneath the earth.

Liz Bonnin joins an international team of palaeontologists in the remote badlands of Wyoming as they...

Ancient X Files travels around the world to solve some intriguing riddles. Each story is a piece of ...

This extraordinary series is a sweeping account of the rise of Earth’s continents. They are the prod...

Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles traces the development of Western civilization, from the f...

Unearthed decodes mysteries and combines scientific investigations with CGI animation to reveal the ...

Unearthing the glittering, golden treasures of the pharaohs.

Pyramid aka Building the Great Pyramid is a 2002 BBC Television documentary film which tells the sto...

This three-part special tells the story of the Egyptian empire from its beginning in 1560 B.C. to it...

Despite decades of research, many mysteries remain about the ancient Maya. Now, archaeologists are u...

Three-part documentary series in which anthropologist professor Alice Roberts and archaeologist Neil...

Egypt's Cosmic Code charts Bradley Walsh's first trip to Egypt in search of answers to some of Ancie...

Alastair Sooke tells the story of Ancient Egyptian art through 30 extraordinary masterpieces.