Ancient Egypt: Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings TV Listings

TV Times

Ancient Egypt: Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings is scheduled to air at these times (may include spoilers):

• Sat 14

  9:10 pm ends 10:30 pm

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  Life — Ancient Egypt: Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings

  Season 1 · Episode 1

  Egyptologist Joann Fletcher looks at the lives of ordinary Egyptian citizens 3,500 years ago. In the first of two programmes, she explores the conditions of their tightly packed houses, how they dressed and what they ate. Joann also examines their love of poetry, their enthusiasm for interior design and what it was like to work in the Valley of the Kings, where the pharaohs were entombed

  More details for Ancient Egypt: Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings, Sat 14, 9:10 pm
• Sat 14

  10:30 pm ends 12:00 am

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  Death — Ancient Egypt: Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings

  Season 1 · Episode 2

  Part two of two. Joann Fletcher investigates the Ancient Egyptian attitude to death, revealing that to them life was just a dress rehearsal for the perfect afterlife that they were trying to reach. Joann clambers into rarely visited tombs, explores a treasure trove of long-buried objects and examines mummies to discover just why they spent a fortune preparing for death - and what they hoped to find when they got there

  More details for Ancient Egypt: Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings, Sat 14, 10:30 pm