Egypt's Great Mummies: Unwrapped with Bettany Hughes

The world's leading Egyptologists are on a quest to uncover the secrets of Howard Carter's history-making discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb on the...

Egypt's two greatest Pharaohs, Khufu and Ramesses II, built their way to immortality through architectural marvels including the temples of Abu...

5000 years ago the ancient Elamites established a glorious civilization that lasted about three millennia. They created marvelous works in...

In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new...

The ancient ancestors of today’s Maya people thrived in large sophisticated cities across Central America for centuries. Why, around 750 CE,...

Around 800 BC, Kush, a little-known subject state of Egypt, rose up and conquered the Egyptians, enthroned its own Pharaohs, and ruled over the...

Almost 100 years after the discovery of King's Tut's Tomb, it is time to tell the story in a new light. Using 2D and 3D imagery to reconstruct the...

Around 3,000 BC, the first territorial state in history was created with the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt. The empire on the Nile was to...

On the 100th anniversary of Howard Carter first unwrapping the mummy of Tutankhamun, Dr Xand van Tulleken sets out to reexamine the six extraordinary...

The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.