Ancient Egypt By Train
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In Upper Egypt, Professor Alice Roberts completes her epic adventure in the city of Aswan whose quarries provided the granite for the country's vast collection of Ancient Egyptian monuments. The towns along the railway line from Luxor to Aswan each have their very own Ancient Egyptian temple, 'strung out, like pearls on a ...
46:25Having seen the treasures of Tutankhamun in a Cairo Museum, Professor Alice Roberts takes the train to Luxor to see his tomb and his mummified body in the Valley of the Kings. She also takes a walk along the Avenue of the Sphinxes and catches up with an old friend who is using satellite technology to discover hundreds of n...
46:32Professor Alice Roberts arrives in Cairo by train carrying a book she first read as a youth, 'A Thousand Miles Up The Nile' by Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Edwards. Alice follows Edwards' footsteps to the Great Pyramids and is allowed to climb deep inside to see the tomb and sarcophagus of the pharaoh Khufu. In the Great ...
46:02Professor Alice Roberts gets exclusive access to some of the most recently uncovered archaeology in Egypt as she travels the country by train. Starting in Alexandria, Alice goes deep underground in search of Cleopatra, she discovers how the Romans and the Greeks reacted to the treasures of Ancient Egypt and on a visit to t...