The Nile With Bettany Hughes

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The Nile With Bettany Hughes

Bettany sees the portion of the Nile where Cleopatra used to travel to be seen by her people and then heads further upriver to find Egypt's lost emblem, the blue lotus flower, and sees the tombs where Howard Carter explored in his early career.

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Historian Bettany Hughes travels throughout Egypt to learn about the country's ancient civilization, to visit the pyramids and other key sites, and to discover how the Nile River influenced history and allowed the ancient civilization to flourish.
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