In Alexandria, Professor Alice Roberts goes deep underground in search of Cleopatra. She discovers how the Romans and Greeks reacted to the treasures of ancient Egypt, and learns how a slave became a sultan and built his own fairytale castle.

Professor Alice Roberts arrives in Cairo by train carrying a book she first read as a youth, A Thousand Miles Up The Nile by Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Edwards. Alice follows Edwards' footsteps to the Great Pyramids.

Having seen the treasures of Tutankhamun in a Cairo museum, professor Alice Roberts takes the train to Luxor to see his tomb and his mummified body in the Valley of the Kings.

In Upper Egypt, professor Alice Roberts completes her epic adventure in the city of Aswan, whose quarries provided the granite for the country's vast collection of ancient Egyptian monuments.