Dr. Joann Fletcher investigates in this set of two documentaries, what life and death were like for the normal person 3500 years ago in Egypt.

When we think of the Ancient Egyptians, we think of pharaohs, the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx. But what was life like for the ordinary people? Joann Fletcher travels across Egypt, piecing together what life was like for the ordinary folk of one of the greatest empires in the ancient world.—Tom Daly