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Ancient Egypt - Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings

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Dr Joann Fletcher asks what everyday life was like in ancient Egypt for ordinary people.

Egyptologist Dr Joann Fletcher investigates what everyday life was like in ancient Egypt for an ordinary person.

Ancient Egypt - Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings: Original Series

Joann Fletcher

Ian A Hunt

Caterina Turroni

Ancient Egypt - Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings: Original Series: Episode 2: Death

Death

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Episode 2: Death

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Dr Joann Fletcher looks at the mysterious world of the ancient Egyptian afterlife.

Egyptologist Dr Joann Fletcher discovers what life was like for ordinary Egyptians 3,500 years ago. She looks at the mysterious world of the ancient Egyptian afterlife.

What was it like to live and die in ancient Egypt, 3,500 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 civilisation.

This episode reveals 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.

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