Ancient Egypt by Train with Alice Roberts TV Listings

Ancient Egypt by Train with Alice Roberts TV listings this week

Ancient Egypt by Train with Alice Roberts is scheduled to air at these times (may include spoilers):

• Tue 23

  9:00 pm ends 10:00 pm

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  Alexandria — Ancient Egypt by Train with Alice Roberts

  Season 1 · Episode 1

  The evolutionary biologist takes a train journey across the world's oldest and greatest civilisation, starting at the very end of the Ancient Egyptian empire in Alexandria, before heading south to Cairo, Luxor and Aswan. Alice goes deep underground in search of Cleopatra, discovers how the Romans and the Greeks reacted to the treasures of Ancient Egypt and, on a visit to the site of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, she learns how a slave became a sultan and built his own fairy-tale caste

  More details for Ancient Egypt by Train with Alice Roberts, Tue 23, 9:00 pm
• Tue 30

  9:00 pm ends 10:00 pm

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  The Pyramids — Ancient Egypt by Train with Alice Roberts

  Season 1 · Episode 2

  Alice arrives in Cairo by train and follows in the footsteps of Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Edwards. The journey takes her to the Great Pyramids, where she is allowed to climb deep inside to see the tomb and sarcophagus of the pharaoh Khufu. In Saqqara she learns how and why the pyramids came about, and even finds time for a spot of shopping in a Cairo souk

  More details for Ancient Egypt by Train with Alice Roberts, Tue 30, 9:00 pm
• Tue 7

  9:00 pm ends 10:00 pm

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  Luxor — Ancient Egypt by Train with Alice Roberts

  Season 1 · Episode 3

  Having seen the treasures of Tutankhamun in a Cairo Museum, Alice 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's using satellite technology to find hundreds of previously undiscovered burial sites

  More details for Ancient Egypt by Train with Alice Roberts, Tue 7, 9:00 pm