Natural World - Season 22 - Eps 1: Lost Crocodiles of the Pharaohs

Name: Eps 1: Lost Crocodiles of the Pharaohs
Released: 2003-10-12
Rating: 3.6

2003-10-12 • ? min • ⭐ 7.1/10

Last year, while excavating a 5,000 year old temple buried by Egyptian sands, archaeologist Edda Bresciani unearthed a sacred chamber - with an unexpected secret.There in the center of the room, gleamed an iridescent pool of emerald water. And right next to it, in a small depression hewn into the floor - thirty perfectly preserved crocodile eggs. Nearby were mummified adults. "The temple was a nursery for sacred crocodiles," she says incredulously. "They emerged from the eggs, to be reared in the pool before being sacrificed and mummified. I'd found a temple to Sebek - the crocodileheaded deity." Despite their revered status in ancient Egypt, the crocodiles in the river Nile were all hunted out by the 1800s, and the Pharaoh's crocodiles were lost forever. Or so it was thought.Then there came mysterious sightings of crocodiles emerging from strange places in north Africa away from the Egyptian Nile. Are these the long lost ancestors of the Pharaoh's crocodiles - alive and well?

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About Natural World

Title: Natural World

First Air Date: 1983-10-30

Last Air Date: 2020-03-20

Status: Returning Series

Rating: 7.1/10 (from 26 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 40

Total Episodes: 543

Network: BBC Two

Genres: Documentary

Production Companies: BBC Studios, BBC Studios Natural History Unit, BBC

Synopsis

Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.