Tutankhamun’s Secrets: On the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s treasure-packed tomb, Dr Janina Ramirez turns detective and heads to Egypt to uncover the real story of how a Briton called Howard Carter unearthed a pharaoh’s tomb when everyone else believed there were no more great Egyptian finds to be made. She discovers that some of […]
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Ancient Invisible Cities episode 1 – Cairo: Dr. Michael Scott uses the latest 3D scanning technology to reveal the historical secrets of Cairo and Ancient Egypt. He explores the first pyramid ever built at Saqqara and finds out how it helped inspire the Great Pyramid of Giza. The 3D scans confirm just how accurately the Great Pyramid was designed and
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The Secret History of Writing episode 1: We take it for granted, but every time we pick up a pen, we are employing the most powerful technology ever invented: the technology of writing. The invention of writing about 5,000 years ago made civilisation itself possible, and every innovation of the modern world is based on the foundation of the written
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The Nile: Egypt’s Great River with Bettany Hughes episode 4 – The historian reaches the southernmost stretches of the Egyptian Nile, though her 900-mile journey is not quite over as she joins archaeologists as they extract a giant stone message board from the foundations of the temple of the crocodile god Sobek. Bettany also visits a hotel once frequented by
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The Nile: Egypt’s Great River with Bettany Hughes episode 3: Bettany visits the west bank of the Nile opposite Luxor where, for 500 years, the Ancient Egyptians buried their pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings, among them the boy-king Tutankhamun. However, the historian crosses the local hills to the Workers’ Village, where generations of skilled royal tomb-builders lived.
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The Nile: Egypt’s Great River with Bettany Hughes episode 2 – Bettany visits a vast desert catacomb where tens of thousands of mummified animals were once left as an offering, tracks down Egypt’s lost emblem the Blue Lotus flower, and finishes at the stunning Dendera temple. A hundred miles south of Cairo a stretch of the Nile was
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The Nile: Egypt’s Great River with Bettany Hughes episode 1 – Bettany visits the Nile’s mouth, before boarding a dahabiya, a passenger boat used on the Nile, that will take her upstream. South of Cairo she explores some tunnels under a collapsed pyramid to find the earliest hieroglyphic writing. On board a timeless dahabiya cruise boat, the historian
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Lost Cities of the Ancients episode 1: Pi-Ramesses – This episode looks at the legendary lost city of Piramesse. This magnificent ancient capital was built 3,000 years ago by the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses the Great, but long ago the whole city disappeared. When it was rediscovered by early archaeologists, it opened up a bizarre puzzle – when Piramesse was finally
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The Biblical Plagues episode 3 – Flight from Egypt: With a graphic account of the tenth and worst punishment, the chain of Plagues in the Book of Exodus comes to an end. Scientists, archeologists and historians look at contemporary evidence to find some explanations for the final plague and any record of the subsequent migration of the freed people.
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The Biblical Plagues episode 2 – Darkness Over Egypt: In 2003, a unique find gave new impetus to the investigation into the causes of the Biblical Plagues. Can the plagues be linked to the eruption of a huge volcano at around the same time period, and the subsequent disruption of weather and atmospheric conditions? The three-part documentary brings
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The Biblical Plagues episode 1 – Duel On The Nile: In the first episode, scholars and scientists deal with six disasters that comprised some of the 10 Biblical plagues. Scientists discover deadly microorganisms causing fish to die and stressors upsetting the frog population. Were the plagues due to huge changes in the ecology of the Nile? Alternative stream
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Ancient Egypt’s Greatest Lost City: Documentary following a team of maritime archaeologists as they uncover the remarkable city of Heracleion, lost to the sea and forgotten for over two thousand years. In the fading days of the pharaohs, the city of Heracleion was the gateway to Egypt and a port beyond compare. In the 4th century BC, this
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