Plot: Egyptologist Joann Fletcher travels to significant sites in North Africa to explore the extraordinary ancient Egyptian civilisation over time. The presenter discusses how the people of Egypt created their society, beginning as primitive farmers to becoming pyramid builders and why tomb robbery was...
Plot: In the first of a two-part programme, Egyptologist Dr Joann Fletcher investigates what life was like for ordinary Egyptians 3,500 years ago. Fletcher discovers how Egyptians travelled to work, looks at how tombs were built and even gets an insight into Egyptian interior design. She also gains access...
Plot: Today's city dwellers may think of urban living as an improvement over the existence of our hunting and gathering ancestors. But Egyptologist Dr. Kara Cooney explains that our modern tendency to live in cities isn't the result of an inevitable march towards progress. Beginning roughly 12,000 years ago...