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Ancient Egypt

Episode 4The mystery of Nefertiti. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Head of the Ancient Egyptian Queen Tiye

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Episode 3Life & death of the boy king. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 2Egypt in the era of the boy king. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 1Unearthing the boy king’s lost tomb. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen TiyeOvershadowed ancient Egyptian royal. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Egyptian pharaohs: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tourists at the Sphinx and Great Pyramid of Giza in 1923

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A bas relief fragment portraying Cleopatra

The female 'kings' of ancient Egypt

Photo of a crocodile

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Antony and Cleopatra meet for the first time

What if...Antony and Cleopatra had won the battle of Actium?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A bust of Queen Nefertiti of Ancient Egypt. (Photo by Oliver Lang/AFP/Getty Images)

Your guide to Egypt’s sun queen Nefertiti

Tutankhamun death mask

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Cleopatra bust. (Photo by Getty Images)

Cleopatra: unpicking myth from reality. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Adventure and archaeology in the golden age of Egyptology. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nefertiti: wife, mother, pharaoh. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Daily life in ancient Egypt: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of a mummy with mask

How to make an Egyptian mummy in 6 steps

Looking for Egypt’s lost tombs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Chess players in the 14th century

Ancient board games: which ones did people play for fun in the past?

A reconstruction of an extract from the Book of the Dead depicting an embalming scene. (Photo by De Agostini Picture Library via Getty Images)

Guidebook to the Ancient Egyptian afterlife

The tomb of Pharaoh Djoser, built at Saqqara

Timeline: the evolution of ancient empires

Mural of the battle of Actium from 1600

Actium, 31 BC: the beginning of the end for Mark Antony and Cleopatra

Colourised print of the Lighthouse of Alexandria as imagined in the 18th century

General ancient history

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: what were they, and what happened to them?

Carved wall scene depicting Cleopatra at Dendera Temple

Cleopatra: what is the real legacy of the last pharaoh?

York Minster's rose window features 16th-century Tudor Roses white on red (left) and Lancastrian Roses, red

A brief history of the English rose

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10 things you (probably) didn't know about ancient Egypt

Engraving of the death of Cleopatra

When and how did Queen Cleopatra die and who killed her?

Sunset at the Chephren Pyramid, Giza, Egypt

Searching for the pharaohs: where are the tombs of Ancient Egypt's missing kings and queens?

An open Bible on an altar

General ancient history

A history of the Bible: who wrote it and when?