秘密社团、献祭仪式、残忍教令、恐怖丧葬－ 古代文明社会间到底有何联系？它们如何看待人类的本能？活力四射、充满魅力的卡拉 库尼博士将在Discovery探索频道上开设一档全新课程「走出古埃及」。这位加州大学洛杉矶分校的埃及艺术与建筑学教授，将放弃舒适的讲堂，游历全球各地的墓地和寺庙，透过崭新的视角，发掘和探索历史上引人入胜的不解之谜。

2006年2月，在图坦卡门国王统治时期的首座坟墓被发现后，大西洋制作公司即对此进行报道。考古队伍发现了七具木乃伊，二十八个密封的储藏罐，一个美丽的金棺材和一些有史以来发现的最迷的文物。他们将揭示一个被遗忘的世界。由于条件恶劣，沙尘暴以及高达150华氏度的气温，考古团队不得不停止挖掘。 2009年，为了检查他们的考古发现，打开4000年前的密封罐，他们再次进入墓穴。他们将解答最大的谜团：被埋在这里的究竟是什么人？扎西·哈瓦斯博士相信这个墓室与图坦卡门国王有关。

在一场遍及古埃及最伟大的历史遗址的视觉盛宴中，阿莱斯特·苏克（Alastair Sooke）通过30件令人叹为观止的杰作来叙述古埃及艺术的故事。

古埃及让人感到神秘，有关它的传说让人浮想联翩。考古学家一直借助最新的考古发现和新技术去了解这个古代的文明。本片揭秘了10个最新的埃及考古发现，这些发现让我们有机会更加直观的认识埃及的历史，了解生活在那个时代的人与事。

第一集《帝国的诞生》（Birth of the Empire）：我们想知道，强盛长达三千年之久的古埃及法老帝国是如何建立起来的。按开国法老那尔迈王的说法，这全是因为战争的结果。但我们发现，跟统一上下埃及的南征北战相比，和平与合作也同样十分重要。不管是残酷的战争，还是和平的合作，都为古埃及人后来持续超过三千年的辉煌文明奠定坚实的基础。 　　第二集《南征北战》（Pharaohs at War）：我们想知道，古埃及法老帝国如何能保持相对独立长达三千年之久。以图特摩斯三世为例，他征服的土地超过其他任何一位法老，但他最终并无意建立一个扩张到海外的帝国。跟所有法老一样，他的宗旨是建立国内的和平与稳定，以前沿防御来守卫边疆。追求和平仍是古埃及法老帝国长盛不衰的一大关键。 　　第三集《权力的神庙》（Temples of Power）：我们想知道，古埃及人的祭祀活动对古埃及法老帝国的长盛不衰起到怎样的作用。从阿肯那顿不幸夭折的改革中，我们将发现古埃及法老帝国的宗教传统到底有多强大。 　　第四集《永生之梦》（Quest for Eternity）：我们想知道，古埃及人相信来世如何能成为古埃及法老帝国长盛不衰的一大原因。一个痴迷于死亡的社会如何能存活这么久？我们发现，古埃及人相信来生对古埃及文明的长寿至关重要。古埃及人非常热爱他们的生命，因而想要在死后延续他们的生命。三千多年里，相信来生成为古埃及所有人的关注焦点。

Ancient Egypt was vandalised by tomb raiders and treasure hunters until one Victorian adventurer took them on. Most of us have never heard of Flinders Petrie, but this maverick genius underook a scientific survey of the pyramids, discovered the oldest portraits in the world, unearthed Egypt's prehistoric roots - and in the process invented modern field archaeology, giving meaning to a whole civilisation. 　　古埃及一直以来遭受盗墓者和寻宝者的侵扰，直到弗林德斯 皮瑞，一位维多利亚时代的探险者改变了这种局面。他不为人所知，但这位不同寻常的天才首次测量了金字塔，发现了世界上年代最久远的绘画，将古埃及的史前渊源公之于众，在这过程中，他还创建了现代实地埃及学，激励后世考古学者探寻埃及文明的意义。

埃及高级考古专家Zahi Hawass和他的探索小队挑选出了在埃及所有发现中10种最重要的.在前期对这些巨大建筑的考察中,这些发现揭秘了埃及法老王,埃及艳後以及普通侍从的惊人逸事,踏上这趟绝妙旅程,一起到尼罗河去探寻,追溯埃及许许多多遗失已久的未知谜团.

Egypt captivates us like few other ancient civilizations - but what was it like to actually live there as an ordinary person 3,500 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 ancient civilization, creating a remarkable way of life and an extraordinary way of death. 　　These questions are explored through the histories of 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 in their extraordinary tomb, full of objects from their lives and death; everything 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 trove to travel into the remarkable world of these ancient Egyptians, both in life and the afterlife. 　　In the first part of the series, Joann explores how people lived during this time, from the tightly packed houses and villages of the common people, to the clothes they wore and the food they ate. She discovers the ordinary Egyptians' love of poetry and their enthusiasm for interior design, as well as what it was like working in the most famous cemetery on Earth.

To the ancient Egyptians, life after death was a high-stakes underworld journey fraught with terrifying obstacles: fiery lakes of death, battles with bona fide monsters, and ultimately eternal death or resurrection with the sun. It’s a journey each Egyptian believed was real, and for the pharaoh the stakes were even higher—the entire cosmos depended on the king’s successful journey and resurrection. New excavations are revealing more than we’ve ever known about what the Egyptians believed they would encounter on their afterlife journey. Now, world-renowned archaeologist Dr. Zahi Hawass is excavating a mysterious tunnel at the very bottom of Seti’s tomb—far below the surface of the earth. Join National Geographic on a true Indiana Jones-style quest in which Dr. Hawass will put his own life in jeopardy for the sake of discovery.

The team investigate the use of modern medical technology to scan Egyptian animal mummies from museums across the world. By creating 3-D images of their content, experts are discovering the truth about the strange role animals played in ancient Egyptian belief. 　　This episode of Horizon meets the scientists working in Egypt who are exploring the ancient underground catacombs where mummies were originally buried to reveal why the ancient Egyptians mummified millions and millions of animals.