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Ancient Egypt

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The Sahara: a green and pleasant land . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ancient Egypt

Episode 6 Secrets of the pharaoh's mummy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Historian Hakim Adi. (Photograph by Tim Stubbins)
Victorian

15 minutes of fame Hakim Adi chooses Alice Kinloch

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Ancient Egypt

Episode 5 Treasures of the tomb . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In a photograph taken at Bishop's Stortford railway station in Hertfordshire, 1972, resettled Ugandan Asians wait for the train that will take them to their new home. (Photo by Alamy)
20th Century

Fleeing Idi Amin: the long journey to a new life

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Ancient Egypt

Episode 4 The mystery of Nefertiti . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ancient Egypt

15 minutes of fame Joyce Tyldesley chooses Queen Tiye

Roger II of Sicily, depicted in an Arabic-style image in the Palatine Chapel of the Norman Palace in Palermo
Norman

Normans in Africa The 12th-century attempt to forge a north-African Norman kingdom

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Ancient Egypt

Episode 1 Unearthing the boy king’s lost tomb . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Norman kings of Africa . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ancient Egypt

Queen Tiye Overshadowed ancient Egyptian royal . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Victorian

Alice Kinloch Pan-African activist . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Medieval

The Mali empire: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Training of young Rwandan Hutu on the road to Kigali, 27 June 1994
20th Century

Genocide: what can we learn from history?