For more than 3000 years, the Ancient Egyptians mummified their dead using elaborate embalming methods, and buried them in style. But they didn't just mummify people. Follow the Egypt Detectives as they seek to uncover why the Egyptians mummified animals, and why so many. | Odyssey - Ancient History

Akhenaten came to power as the pharaoh of Egypt in either the year 1353 or 1351 BCE and reigned for roughly 17 years during the 18th dynasty of Egypt's New Kingdom. Akhenaten became best known to modern scholars for the new religion he created that centered on the Aten. | Odyssey - Ancient History

Uncover some of ancient Egypt's greatest mysteries, from Tutankhamun's tomb to the pyramids of Giza. Archaeologist Miriam Cooke and Egyptologist Dominic Montserrat go on an eye-opening adventure, sifting through prehistoric paintings, millennia-old artefacts, unearthed tombs, and rarely-seen hieroglyphs as they reconstruct the Egyptian past. #AncientHistory #Egypt #Tutankhamun | Odyssey - Ancient History