Planet of Treasures

[PART 1: AFRICA] Professor Clark showcases UNESCO-listed universal heritage sites in N/E Africa. Egypt, with capital Cairo and the Pyramids, has the continent's largest metropolis and its only world-leading empire and civilization, the pioneer of true statehood and countless treasures. He travels south admiring Ramses the Great's legacy starring the Abu Simbel temples in Nubia, the Arab-black border. The continent's only Christian-inspired major state is Ethiopia, a former empire defined by its Roman-age conversion to a 'native' form of Christianity, from the first imperial capital in Gondhar to Lalibela's curious dozen of pilgrimage churches meant as a 'second Jerusalem', carved in soft stone. Then to Kenia, with the Massai traditions and the Swahili trade opulence on the island state of Lamu.