Professor Alice Roberts uses Egypt's rail network, one of the world's oldest rail networks, to explore one of the world's most ancient civilisations.
Starting in Alexandria, Alice searches for Cleopatra, discovers how the Romans and the Greeks reacted to the treasures of Ancient Egypt, and learns how a slave became a sultan and built his own caste
Alice arrives in Cairo by train with a book she first read as a youth: A Thousand Miles Up the Nile by Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Edwards. Alice follows Edwards' footsteps to the Great Pyramids.
Alice takes the train to Luxor to see Tutankhamun's tomb and his mummified body in the Valley of the Kings. She also takes a walk along the Avenue of the Sphinxes.
Alice ends her adventure in Aswan, whose quarries provided the granite for the country's vast collection of Ancient Egyptian monuments. She then takes a boat to see the extraordinary Philae Temple.
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