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- DirectorGary GlassmanStarsLaura BrownRick BrownGünter DreyerNova investigates the Great Sphinx of Egypt in an attempt to understand its origin, creation, and purpose.
- The Egyptian mega-temple at Karnak was once the political powerbase of the ancient pharaohs and the home to strange religious rituals. New discoveries of skeletons tell a story of jealousy, betrayal, and the rise of a new religion that changed Egypt.
- DirectorGwyn WilliamsThis film unlocks the secrets of one of the most sophisticated and mysterious civilizations the world has ever known. It discovers how the Ancient Egyptians built the greatest monument of all time - the Great Pyramid.
- DirectorJo LockeArchaeologists have attempted to pinpoint the location of the Labyrinth, a maze like structure said to have housed the Minotaur. English archaeologist Arthur Evans became convinced it was on Crete when he excavated Knossos.
- StarsRichard ReddingRecent forensic findings uncover the astonishing secrets of the world's most iconic monument, the great Sphinx at Giza. Join the extraordinary investigation as it reveals which pharaoh commissioned this colossal statue and why it was never finished.
- New discoveries explore the dark secrets of Tutankhamun's tomb. Archaeologists are finally finding answers to its ancient riddles, showing how his untimely death, his calamitous burial, and an act of God made a minor king the most famous of them all.
- DirectorThierry Ragobert
- DirectorMichael GregorStarsJay O. SandersHans GiffhornJanice JakaitDid Iberian Celts reach Brazil 1500 years before Columbus by joining the fleet of refugees from defeated Carthage in search of a new home like Peruvian Andes, where a strange tribe of "white Indians" known as the Chachapoya later lived?
- 2013–2017TV Episode
- DirectorHugh BallantyneKaige ChenBen DuncanStarsDong ChunguangLiming GengAlbert Yu-Min LinUnearthing the terrible secrets hidden in the tomb of China's first emperor. The Terracotta warriors are just the tip of the iceberg in a mausoleum the size of Manhattan, which has gone largely unexcavated.
- In 1799, the breakthrough needed to decipher the hieroglyphs was accidentally discovered. The Rosetta Stone -- a cryptic, black stone tabled -- held the key to knowledge of ancient Egypt.
- DirectorNeil GelinasA team of archaeologists has been granted special access to dig at Lumbini, one of the holiest sites in Buddhism, and the answers they uncover could reshape history.
- DirectorMartin GorstStarsSteven KearneyEdith HallSotiris TryposkoufisGo inside the Acropolis, an ancient engineering marvel that has stood above the city of Athens for thousands of years. Follow the scientists working to reveal its hidden mysteries: how it was built, what it looked like, and why it's still standing today.
- 2013–2017TV EpisodeDirectorXavier Lefebvre
- 2013–2017TV EpisodeDirectorJérôme-Cecil Auffret
- DirectorTim ConradStarsTristan CarterDave ChapmanTim ConradCould a recently excavated, 12,000-year-old temple have propelled us out of the stone age and into the space age? Archaeologist Dr. Jeff Rose investigates an extraordinary find in Turkey.
- DirectorGary GlassmanOlivier JulienStarsSue AlcockAchim BarrensteinThomas BauzouA look at the ancient city of Petra in Jordan, which was carved from stone and possessed an ingenious water-conduit system. Archaeologist and sculptors join forces to carve a temple-tomb to learn how the people of Petra built the city.
- DirectorFlorence TranStarsPatrick FloersheimBob BrierJean-Pierre HoudinThe Great Pyramids are the only wonder of the ancient world that still stand today, the greatest of which is the pyramid of Khufu. Many theories have been offered to explain its construction, but none as convincing or unique as this one.
- DirectorIan A. HuntStarsJoann FletcherPerhaps unassumed by most, the ancient Egyptians were unique in their attitude to sexual equality. Women held the title of 'Pharaoh' no fewer than 18 times. There were also female doctors, tutors, prime ministers and priestesses in Egypt long before anyone thought possible.
- DirectorSteven R. TalleyStarsErika Schluntz BannishWilliam G. DeverPhilip HammondAncient Mysteries examines the ancient Nabatean city of Petra which was carved directly into the red-rock cliffs of the Jordanian mountains.
- Between the Nile and the necropolis in the valley of the Kings, thousands of Ancient Egypt's best artisans lived and worked, usually the rest of their lives, with their families and some servants or apprentices, often succeeded by their sons, building and decorating elaborate graves for the Pharaonic dynasty and its rich, mighty entourage. The town also had an almost complete network of logistics and so onto feed and supply the tomb builders and provide various services, almost a complete city, with its own police and administration, medicine and daily cult. Their lives, somewhat privileged, are exceptionally well end extensively documented, not in the least by pottery fragments used to write daily messages and private records.
- Dr Joann Fletcher looks at the mysterious world of the ancient Egyptian afterlife and reveals a strange and mysterious world. 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.