History | Travel
Station:
BBC America (US)
Status:
Ended
Start:
2023-02-12
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Professor Alice Roberts uses Egypt's rail network, one of the world's oldest rail networks, to explore one of the world's most ancient civilisations.
TV Show Ended.
S1E2 - Cairo
Alice arrives in Cairo by train with 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.
Air Date: 19 Feb 2023 11:00 (CDT)
S1E3 - Luxor
Alice takes the train to Luxor to see Tutankhamun's tomb and his mummified body in the Valley of the Kings. She also takes a walk along the Avenue of the Sphinxes.
Air Date: 05 Mar 2023 11:00 (CDT)
S1E4 - Aswan
Alice ends her adventure in Aswan, whose quarries provided the granite for the country's vast collection of Ancient Egyptian monuments. She then takes a boat to see the extraordinary Philae Temple.
Air Date: 12 Mar 2023 11:00 (CDT)