Ancient Egypt Life and Death In The Valley Of The Kings Part 2
- 3 years ago
What was it like to live and die in Ancient Egypt, 3500 years ago?
Egyptologist Dr Joann Fletcher goes on a fascinating journey in search of people like us – not the great Pharaohs but the ordinary people who built and populated this incredible ancient civilization.
In this episode we discover a strange and mysterious world: the Ancient Egyptian afterlife. To them life was just a dress rehearsal for the perfect afterlife they were trying to reach. Joann clambers into rarely visited tombs, explores a treasure trove of long-buried objects and examines spectacular mummies to discover just why the Egyptians spent a fortune preparing for death – and what they hoped to find when they got there.
Egyptologist Dr Joann Fletcher goes on a fascinating journey in search of people like us – not the great Pharaohs but the ordinary people who built and populated this incredible ancient civilization.
In this episode we discover a strange and mysterious world: the Ancient Egyptian afterlife. To them life was just a dress rehearsal for the perfect afterlife they were trying to reach. Joann clambers into rarely visited tombs, explores a treasure trove of long-buried objects and examines spectacular mummies to discover just why the Egyptians spent a fortune preparing for death – and what they hoped to find when they got there.