Natural World - Season 22 Episode 1
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?
First Air Date : 1983-10-30
Last Air date : 2020-03-20
Runtime : 57 minutes
Genre : Documentary
Cast : David Attenborough, John Hannah, Juliet Stevenson
Crew : Brian Jackman (Writer), Andrew Graham-Brown (Director), Mike Birkhead (Director)
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Subtitles :
- Season 22 : Episode 12003-10-12
- Season 22 : Episode 22003-10-19
- Season 22 : Episode 32003-10-31
- Season 22 : Episode 42003-11-16
- Season 22 : Episode 52003-11-23
- Season 22 : Episode 62003-12-07
- Season 22 : Episode 82004-01-02
- Season 22 : Episode 92004-01-09
- Season 22 : Episode 102004-01-16
- Season 22 : Episode 112004-01-23
- Season 22 : Episode 122004-02-08
- Season 22 : Episode 132004-02-15
- Season 22 : Episode 142004-02-22
- Season 22 : Episode 152004-02-29
- Season 22 : Episode 162004-03-14
- Season 22 : Episode 172004-04-11
