It's a story that spans 4,000 years, older than the Bible...and it's all true.

Learn about the divine reverence Egyptians had for cats, elevating them to a sacred status in society.

Cooking eggplant in olive oil in the skillet requires you with a perfect piece of eggplant that isn't dried out. Cook eggplant in olive oil in the skillet.

Dense, flavorful, boiled-then-baked bread recreated from the tomb of Ramses III

The jackal-headed god Anubis is one of the most famous and fascinating deities in Egyptian mythology. He was the first lord of the underworld, the conductor of souls, and the god of death. Anubis played several critical roles in ancient Egypt, evolving ov...

From the darkest depths of ancient cultures across the globe, legends speak of forbidden lands hidden beneath the earth's surface. These underworlds, veiled in mystery and myth, hold secrets of life, death, and the unknown.

The bust of Queen Nefertiti is a big attraction in Berlin. But on the Nile, she’s sorely missed. The matter of ownership seems to be clear, formally at least. But since 1924, both Egypt and France have been demanding the return of the artwork.

Ramesses II, commonly known as Ramesses the Great, was an Egyptian pharaoh. He was the third ruler of the Nineteenth Dynasty.

Discover everything you need to know about Bastet (aka Bast), the Ancient Egyptian Cat Goddess in this animated Egyptian Mythology documentary.

Experience daily life in ancient Egypt in this 3D animated documentary.

Archaeologists hunt for the lost tomb of Cleopatra. One team dives the sunken city of Alexandria and an explorer unearths a secret underground tunnel.

Find out what the Great Sphinx would have looked like when it was first built, and why the Pharaoh Khafre had the great monument built with his face on it.

How does a civilisation that lasted for several thousand years begin? Joann Fletcher talks us through the genesis of ancient Egypt and how its story progressed. Fletcher also discusses some of the common misconceptions about ancient Egypt, and how we're s...

Using the latest technology and research, a missing ancient wonder and once fabled city of the early Egyptian world are discovered beneath the Nile.

In the tombs that ancient Egyptians prepared for their deaths, they left a record of how they lived more than 3000 years ago, today. But the full meaning of many of the images remains a mystery. In almost every Egyptian tome one image stands out; the blue...