Seasons & Episodes
The Mouth
Bettany visits the Nile's mouth, before boarding a 'dahabiya' that will take her upstream. South of Cairo she explores s
The River
A hundred miles south of Cairo a stretch of the Nile was once considered Egypt's main highway, used by Cleopatra to trav
The Banks
Bettany visits the west bank of the Nile opposite Luxor where, for 500 years, the Ancient Egyptians buried their pharaoh
The Source
The historian reaches the southernmost stretches of the Egyptian Nile, though her 900-mile journey is not quite over as
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