The Ultimate Guide to Mummies travels through England, Scotland, Egypt, Peru and the USA to answer the historical and scientific questions at the heart of mummification.

Using archive, graphics and dramatic reconstructions, the film takes us back 5,000 years to the Ancient Egyptians, to the Iron Age peat bogs of England and takes us forward to the future of digital immortality in the USA.

We explore the story of Egyptian mummification from the first naturally preserved sand mummies, the ill-fated early mud-brick tombs to the complex rituals involved in the embalming of Pharaohs. By the nineteenth century, the exploitation and abuse of mummies was rife which we illustrate through the illicit activities of tomb-robbers.