Fall Asleep to Ancient Egypt | Pyramids, Pharaohs & Everyday Life
Published: September 15, 2026
Duration: 1:02:59
A calm, carefully researched bedtime journey through Ancient Egypt — from the age of the Great Pyramid to Cleopatra, exploring pharaohs and monuments alongside the quieter lives of boatmen, bakers, craftspeople and families beside the Nile.
Tonight, our journey begins with Merer, an ancient Egyptian official whose surviving papyri record the work of a crew transporting limestone towards the pyramid complex of Khufu.
From there, we travel across roughly two and a half millennia of Egyptian history, moving between some of the civilisation's most famous monuments and the ordinary objects and records that allow us to glimpse ev...
Tonight, our journey begins with Merer, an ancient Egyptian official whose surviving papyri record the work of a crew transporting limestone towards the pyramid complex of Khufu.
From there, we travel across roughly two and a half millennia of Egyptian history, moving between some of the civilisation's most famous monuments and the ordinary objects and records that allow us to glimpse ev...