Ancient Egypt Life And Death In The Valley Of The Kings - Dr Joann
Fletcher - As Seen On BBC2 DVD

Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play 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