TV Guide PBS America Saturday

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

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

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

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

Following the discovery of a skeleton that archaeologists believe to be the sister of Cleopatra VII, Neil Oliver examines the reign of the ruthless queen. On a journey taking him from Egypt to Turkey, he unravels the story behind the monarch's lust for power and the possible cause of her sibling's death