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Between the Nile and the necropolis in the valley of the Kings, thousands of Ancient Egypt's best artisans lived and worked, usually the rest of their lives, with their families and some servants or apprentices, often succeeded by their sons, building and decorating elaborate graves for the Pharaonic dynasty and its rich, mighty entourage. The town also had an almost complete network of logistics and so onto feed and supply the tomb builders and provide various services, almost a complete city, with its own police and administration, medicine and daily cult. Their lives, somewhat privileged, are exceptionally well end extensively documented, not in the least by pottery fragments used to write daily messages and private records.

Dr Joann Fletcher looks at the mysterious world of the ancient Egyptian afterlife and reveals a strange and mysterious world. To them life was just a dress rehearsal for the perfect afterlife they were trying to reach. Joann clambers into rarely visited tombs, explores a treasure trove of long-buried objects and examines spectacular mummies to discover just why the Egyptians spent a fortune preparing for death - and what they hoped to find when they got there.