Episode 1

Professor Bettany Hughes meets the Egyptologists solving a 3,000-year-old murder mystery and visits the temple walls that tell the story of Cleopatra.

Episode 2

Professor Bettany Hughes unearths the glittering, golden treasures of the pharaohs.

Episode 3

Professor Bettany Hughes returns to explore the treasures of the iconic and tragic city of Pompeii.

Episode 4

Professor Bettany Hughes explores the iconic and tragic city of Pompeii — an entire Roman city, buried in disaster but preserved for the rest of time.

Episode 5

Professor Bettany Hughes visits the temple walls that tell the story of Egypt’s final female pharaoh — Cleopatra.

Episode 6

Professor Bettany Hughes ventures to unearth the golden treasures of the pharaohs and the epic monuments they built for their spiritual afterlives.