Ancient Egypt Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings - Dr Joann Fletcher - As Seen on BBC2
Release Date: 09 February 2015
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Certificate: Exempt

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Egypt captivates us like few other ancient civilizations but what was
it like to actually live there as an ordinary person, 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 place, creating a remarkable way of
life and an extraordinary way of death. Joann explores their homes,
workplaces and temples and she climbs down into their tombs to discover
the remarkable world of these Ancient Egyptians, both in life and the
afterlife. At the heart of this series (originally aired on BBC) are
Kha and Meryt, an architect and his wife who lived just outside the
Valley of the Kings. They left behind a treasure trove of information;
their extraordinary tomb, full of objects from their lives and deaths -
from make-up to death-masks, loaves of bread to life-like figurines,
even the tools Kha used at work in the royal tombs. Joann Fletcher uses
this to travel into the remarkable world of these Ancient Egyptians,
both in life and the afterlife. In this first episode we explore life
in Ancient Egypt; the tightly packed houses where ordinary people
lived, the village that was their home, how they dressed and what they
ate. Joann discovers their love poetry, their enthusiasm for interior
design and what it was like to work in the most famous cemetery on
earth, the Valley of the Kings. In the second 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.
Release Date: 09 February 2015
Certificate: E - Exempt from Certification
SKU: IMC940D