The Road to the Pyramids

S1 E1: Prof. Joann Fletcher is in search of the building blocks of the Egyptian civilisation. How did they progress, in just a few centuries, from primitive farmers to pyramid builders? Joann visits a wealth of locations: Qurta in Upper Egypt, home of Africa's earliest rock art - Aswan, where Egypt was the first country to use writing to calculate taxes - Saqqara, home of Egypt's first step pyramid, The Giza pyramids, and the greatest monument of them all - The Great Pyramid.