disc 1. Chaos and kings. Chaos and order ; Compiling the first history ; The early Egyptians ; The Nile ; Upper Egypt: Hierakonpolis ; Lower Egypt: Buto ; Union of the two kingdoms ; Royal graveyard at Abydos ; Memphis ; The emergence of the pharaohs

The resurrection machine. Concept of the pyramids ; The step pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara ; Royal Graveyard at Abydos ; Stone monuments at Saqqara ; The false pyramid, the bent pyramid, and the red pyramid at Dashur ; The pyramids at Giza ; The pyramid builders ; The forgotten pyramids of Abusir ; The Valley of the Kings at Thebes ; The pyramids in Nubia ; Kushite Pyramids

Age of gold. King Tutankhamun's tomb ; The Hyksos ; Kyksos Palace at Avaris ; The Kingdom of Kush ; Ahmose I: The New Kingdom ; The Minoan Alliance ; Kerma ; The conquest of Kush ; Nubian gold ; Amenhotep III ; Common tomb at Thebes ; Royal Tomb of Seti I ; War with the Hittites ; Plunder of the royal tombs

disc 2. Deities and demons. Early deities ; The Egyptian Creation myth ; Ra: the Sun God ; Amun-Ra ; Atshepsut ; Birthing rituals ; Isis and Osiris ; Amulets ; Securing an afterlife ; Letters to the dead ; Book of the dead ; Dream interpretation ; Animal cults

Postmortem. Embalming ; The art of mummification ; The Book of the Dead ; Mummies ; Funeral rituals ; Skeletal evaluation ; Reconstruction.