Don't know much about history? These fascinating documentaries are a great way to immerse yourself in events that shaped the ...

The Pyramids were not laid out willy-nilly on the Giza Plateau. Each side of each of the three Pyramids lines up precisely east-west or north-south. It's a bit of a mystery how the ancients ...

Series editor John Farren writes: For centuries archaeologists have been trying to work out how the ancient Egyptians built the Great Pyramid. This documentary presents a radical new theory by ...

NOVA: What evidence do you have that the pyramids and tombs at Giza were from, as you say, no more than 5,000 years ago. HAWASS: First of all you have inscriptions that are written inside the ...

In high school Kawae became obsessed with the pyramids after watching a TV documentary. Now he’s quick to say that sweating under the Egyptian sun isn’t as glamorous as Hollywood portrays it.