Ancient Egypt - Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings poster

Basic Info

First Air: April 22, 2014

Rating: ⭐ 8.6/10 (5 votes)

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 2

Last Episode

Name: Death

Season: 1, Episode: 2

Air Date: 2014-04-22

Runtime: 60 min

This episode reveals a strange and mysterious world - the ancient Egyptian afterlife. To them life was just a dress rehearsal for the perfect afterlife they were trying to reach. Joann clambers into rarely visited tombs, explores a treasure trove of long-buried objects and examines spectacular mummies to discover just why the Egyptians spent a fortune preparing for death - and what they hoped to find when they got there.

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Ancient Egypt - Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings

2014 1 seasons 2 episodes ⭐ 8.6/10 5 votes

Overview

Presented by Egyptologist Dr Joann Fletcher who goes on a fascinating journey in search of people like us, not the great Pharaohs, but the ordinary people who built and populated this incredible place, creating a remarkable way of life. Dr Joann explores their homes, workplaces and temples. The programme originally aired on BBC2 and we meet Kha and Meryt, an architect and his wife who lived just outside the Valley of the Kings. They left behind a treasure trove of information; their extraordinary tomb, full of objects from their lives and deaths - from make-up to death-masks, loaves of bread to life-like figurines, even the tools Kha used at work in the royal tombs. Joann Fletcher uses this to travel into the remarkable world of these Ancient Egyptians,.