Chronicle (1966)

Life and Death in Ancient Egypt (1983x3)

: 29, 1983

The average ancient Egyptian - what did he expect from life? What were his clothes and food? What illnesses did he suffer and die from? Four thousand years later, how do you find out? Chronicle, six years ago, filmed Dr Rosalie David and her team as they unwrapped an Egyptian mummy. Now their researches have extended to the rest of the Manchester Museum collection and beyond to Egypt itself - in a skull-filled hut in the shadow of the Pyramids, in previously unfilmed tombs at Giza, and in the workmen's village of Deir el-Medina near the Valley of the Kings at Luxor. By using the most up-to-date scientific techniques the team are discovering both the pleasant and the not-so-pleasant realities of life and death in Ancient Egypt. Re-aired 26 February 1987, 5 July 1990