Far in the distance, three colossal shapes tower over the desert horizon…

In this episode, we travel to the Nile Valley, and tell the story of one of the most iconic cultures ever produced by humankind – the civilizations of ancient Egypt. I want to show how this series of related cultures grew up in the floodplains of their great river, and built some of the most enduring and recognizable structures in the world. And I want to tell the story of what happened to bring the age of the Pharaohs finally and cataclysmically to an end.

Credits:

Michael Hajiantonis

Nick Denton

Paul Casselle

Alexandra Boulton

Tom Marshall-Lee

Rhy Brignell

Peter Walters

Lachlan Lucas

Narrated and produced by Paul Cooper

Sound engineering by Alexey Sibikin

Readings in Arabic by Nassim El-Boujjoufi

Readings in reconstructed ancient Egyptian by Seqnenra (Mohammad Habib) and Doha Abd Allah Amin