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The archaeologist explores the story of the ancient civilisation
Archaeologist and historian Joann Fletcher explores the story of Ancient Egypt and begins with a search of the building blocks that made he civilisation so enduring. She discovers how its people changed from primitive farmers to pyramid builders in just a few centuries, and finds early evidence for Egypt's gods and its obsession with death and the afterlife. She also reveals how the first writing was used to calculate taxes and examines Egypt's first pyramid - one of the world's earliest stone structures
14:15

S01E02

The civil war that fractured Egypt in the wake of the 'Pyramid Age'
The professor explores one of Saqqara's last pyramid complexes to illustrate how Ancient Egypt's 'Pyramid Age' came to an end. A worsening climate combined with political upheaval, famine and economic difficulties to plunge the state into a dark era of civil war, with the land dividing into smaller city-states headed by ambitious small-town leaders. In an obscure tomb in Thebes, she uncovers the stories of warriors who fought in the bloody battle that would eventually lead to Egypt's reunification, and reveals how settlers known as the 'Hyksos' tried to infiltrate the fledgling nation's government to seize the throne
15:35

S01E03

Joann explores the peak of ancient Egyptian civilisation
Joann explores the peak of ancient Egyptian civilisation by looking at the Colossi of Memnon, two massive stone statues depicting Pharaoh Amenhotep III, and examining the lives of the workers and artisans involved in the building of the Valley of the Kings. This golden age was threatened by the growing power of Karnak's priests, and Joann reveals how Tutankhamen's early death was a chance for Egypt to start afresh and rewrite history, but was undermined by decades of state-sanctioned looting of the tombs
16:55

S01E04

How Egypt's enemies exploited its internal strife
The historian reveals hows Egypt's enemies exploited a country weakened by internal strife, travelling south to Sudan to examine the story of the forgotten Nubian kings, who ruled Egypt from their southern homeland for a century, even building their own pyramids to bury their monarchs. She then explores how the next group of invaders the Saites took the tradition of mummification to new extremes by preserving millions of animals, before Alexander the Great came to Egypt's rescue and founded the greatest city on Earth

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18:10

The history of the ancient city
Bettany Hughes examines the history of the ancient city, which was founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BC. Until its decline in the fourth and fifth centuries AD, it became the centre of the world of art and culture and an example of advanced civilisation
19:10

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Part one of two. A mass grave dating to the fall of the Egyptian Empire
Part one of two. Over 4,000 years ago, the ancient kingdom of Egypt, collapsed and disappeared. The mighty pharaohs, who had reigned supreme for more than seven centuries, lost control and the land was plunged into 150 years of chaos and civil war. In this documentary, a team of archaeologists examines the Tomb of the Warriors, a rare mass grave dating to the fall of the Old Kingdom, when political infighting and a changing climate brought down an empire
20:05

S01E02

Part two of two. The Tomb of the Warriors, near Luxor in southern Egypt
Part two of two. The Tomb of the Warriors, near Luxor in southern Egypt, contains over 60 mummified bodies, all of which had suffered violent deaths. Though discovered in 1923 before being sealed, the tomb has only recently been investigated for what it can reveal of this lost world
21:10

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Part one of two. The lives of ordinary Egyptian citizens 3,500 years ago
Egyptologist Joann Fletcher looks at the lives of ordinary Egyptian citizens 3,500 years ago. In the first of two programmes, she explores the conditions of their tightly packed houses, how they dressed and what they ate. Joann also examines their love of poetry, their enthusiasm for interior design and what it was like to work in the Valley of the Kings, where the pharaohs were entombed
22:30

S01E02

Part two of two. Joann Fletcher examines the Ancient Egyptian attitude to death
Part two of two. Joann Fletcher investigates the Ancient Egyptian attitude to death, revealing that to them life was just a dress rehearsal for the perfect afterlife that they were trying to reach. Joann clambers into rarely visited tombs, explores a treasure trove of long-buried objects and examines mummies to discover just why they spent a fortune preparing for death - and what they hoped to find when they got there
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