Release Date: June 28, 2019
The Nile: Egypt's Great River with Bettany Hughes
720p
2019
Published on, 1 year ago
The Nile: Egypt's Great River with Bettany Hughes
The Banks 1 Season 3 Episode
45 min
2019
Published on, 1 year ago
Bettany visits the west bank of the Nile opposite Luxor where, for 500 years, the Ancient Egyptians buried their pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings, among them the boy-king Tutankhamun. However, the historian crosses the local hills to the Workers' Village, where generations of skilled royal tomb-builders lived. As it turns out, they also dumped masses of domestic rubbish, which is now giving some insight into the highs, lows and preoccupations of ancient Egyptians. Bettany then heads south on the Nile's oldest steam ship SS Sudan, which inspired Agatha Christie to write Death on the Nile.
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