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Ancient Egypt

The Rosetta Stone is covered in three scripts, which allowed for the translation of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs

Rosetta StoneWhat is it and why is it important?

The Rosetta Stone

The rivalry behind the translation of the Rosetta Stone

Should mummies be on display?

Episode 7The contested legacy of an icon

Episode 6Secrets of the pharaoh's mummy

Episode 5Treasures of the tomb

Episode 4The mystery of Nefertiti

Head of the Ancient Egyptian Queen Tiye

15 minutes of fameJoyce Tyldesley chooses Queen Tiye

Episode 3Life & death of the boy king

Episode 2Egypt in the era of the boy king

Episode 1Unearthing the boy king’s lost tomb

Queen TiyeOvershadowed ancient Egyptian royal

Egyptian pharaohs: everything you wanted to know

Tourists at the Sphinx and Great Pyramid of Giza in 1923

Who was ancient Egypt’s most successful pharaoh?

A bas relief fragment portraying Cleopatra

The female 'kings' of ancient Egypt

Photo of a crocodile

Q&AWhy do we say 'crocodile tears'?

Antony and Cleopatra meet for the first time

What if...Antony and Cleopatra had won the battle of Actium?

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

QuizTutankhamun: do you know all the boy king’s secrets?

Cleopatra bust. (Photo by Getty Images)

Cleopatra: unpicking myth from reality

Adventure and archaeology in the golden age of Egyptology

Nefertiti: wife, mother, pharaoh

Daily life in ancient Egypt: everything you wanted to know

Illustration of a mummy with mask

How to make an Egyptian mummy in 6 steps

Looking for Egypt’s lost tombs

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?