Ancient Egypt by Train with Alice Roberts episode 2 – Arriving in the bustling city of Cairo, Professor Alice Roberts eagerly clutches a weathered book, a treasured relic from her youth. It is none other than “A Thousand Miles Up The Nile” by the esteemed Victorian Egyptologist, Amelia Edwards, a work that has continued to captivate and inspire her throughout […]
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The Ancient World episode 2 – Engineering Ancient Egypt: Through their superlative buildings, the legacy of the Egyptian empire continues to enthrall people to this day. Yet these incredible structures were made over 4,000 years ago. Historian Bettany Hughes explores what drove the people of this ancient civilisation to build on such a massive scale. The story is
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Professor Fekri Hassan attempts to determine why the Egyptian Old Kingdom, the civilisation of the great pyramids, collapsed around 2200 BC. Can science show that terrible forces of nature were to blame – even driving people to cannibalism? Clues come from the remote deserts of southern Egypt, the glaciers of Iceland and a dramatic and unique archaeological find
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