The Nile: Egypt's Great River with Bettany Hughes

1. The Mouth

Bettany visits the Nile's mouth, before boarding a dahabiya, a passenger boat...

2. The River

Bettany visits a vast desert catacomb where tens of thousands of mummified an...

3. The Banks

Bettany visits the west bank where, for 500 years, the Egyptians buried their...

4. The Source

Along the southern Nile, Bettany joins archaeologists at the temple of the cr...