The Nile: Egypt's Great River with Bettany Hughes (2019)

S1E2 The River

A hundred miles south of Cairo, a segment of the Nile once served as Egypt's primary thoroughfare, famously used by Cleopatra for her travels. Over two millennia later, Bettany explores an extensive desert catacomb filled with tens of thousands of mummified animals, left as offerings. Further along the river, he takes a dip in the Nile and visits the tombs that sparked Howard Carter's fascination with Egypt when he discovered Tutankhamun’s resting place. Bettany then investigates the longest tomb ever uncovered, before making his way to the Dendera temple, a site where Cleopatra may have dazzled Julius Caesar.