you have tutankhamun here, so much tutankhamun. landmark year for egypt's antiquities, with new and restored discoveries opening and a huge, glittering parade as the mummies of 22 pharaohs were moved to their new home — the national museum of egyptian civilisation. it has been a landmark year for egypt's antiquities, with new and restored discoveries opening and a huge, glittering parade as the mummies of 22 pharaohs were moved to their new home — the national museum of egyptian civilisation. also newly opened after restoration work is the home of the man widely credited with finding tutankhamun�*s burial chamber, howard carter. however, many say the egyptian contribution to all this has been overlooked, and i'm on my way to hear some of that story and meet a family very well known in these parts, although sadly not outside this country. it's interesting with the two sides of the nile. i've just come from the east side, which is where there's all the shops, and life bustles on and people live there and stuff. but i'm heading now ba

nubi claims it was actually his father who first found the tomb of tutankhamun. rasoul was just a child at the time. while the egyptians clearly played a huge part in the discovery, the persistence of howard carter and the money of his wealthy aristocratic backer were also vitally important to the success. now the desire is for both parts of that story to be recognised and told. all these tourists here, all the people who are here, what do you think they believe? do you think they still believe the older version, or do you think they're gradually being told something which is more in tune with what you think? no, i think they carry the same old beliefs because all of their programmes would only focus on ancient egypt, nothing on the many other layers of egyptian heritage. that's one thing. and the other thing is that the whole what got them in here is this colonial narrative. it's not the narrative that we need to reshape. are you at least hopeful that in the future that might change, that the small children across the world will get a better understanding of all

he claims it was actually his father who first found the tomb of tutankhamun.s just a child at the time. while the egyptians clearly played a huge part in the discovery, the persistence of howard carter and the money of his wealthy, aristocratic backer were also vitally important to the success. now, the desire is for both parts of that story to be recognised and told. all these tourists here, all the people who are here, what do you think they believe? do you think they still believe the old version, or do you think they are gradually being told something which is more in tune with what you think? no, i think they carry the same old beliefs. because all of their programmes would only focus on ancient egypt, nothing on the many other layers of egyptian heritage. that's one thing, and the other thing is that the whole — what brought them in here is this colonial narrative. it's the narrative that we need to reshape. are you at least hopeful in the future that might change, that small children across the world will get a better understanding of all of this? yes,

if you were watching last week, you'd have seen me unearthing the story of how tutankhamun's tomb was best bits of 2022. well, from the baking sun of here in egypt, let's switch to the snow of switzerland where, back in march, carmen got to experience a horse race like no other — where the jockeys don't need saddles. they use skis. this is st moritz in the swiss alps. it's the place, so they say, where the concept of the winter holiday was born. it also occupies a unique place in sporting history. it's where the bobsleigh was created, but skijoring is an even stranger sporting event than that. the race is a wild mix of horses, skiing, all done over this frozen lake. before the main event, i caught up with valeria, who's been crowned overall winner here twice in past years. before the first race, i always said, "why am i doing this?" and after the race, i said, "yeah, i know why!" 2009, i was the first woman to do skijoring. it was really special because everyone was looking at me, "can she do that? "is she strong enough? "is she not scared and everything?" but it was really nice becau

rajan heads to egypt's valley of the kings and visits tutankhamun, whose remains were discovered exactlyhistoric find? so this is the 12—year—old boy that they said really discovered the tomb. until then, you can find loads more amazing travel content from the bbc online by using the tags on the screen. but for now from me, ade adepitan and all of the travel show team here in volterra in italy, it's arrivederci. we'll see you soon. bye! hello there. it does look like this cold spell is here to stay for the foreseeable future. we are likely to see further spells of rain, sleet and snow. some significant accumulations towards the second part of the weekend in one or two areas. we will start to see increasing amounts of freezing fog developing as the winds will turn lighter, particularly across england and wales. bitterly cold start to the weekend then, as you can see from these temperatures, even lower in a few spots, maybe down to —9 in places, and watch out for ice first thing around northern and western coastal areas. it is here where we are likely to see the wintry showers continuing t

nubi claims it was actually his father who first found the tomb of tutankhamun.these tourists here, all the people who are here, what do you think they believe? do you think they still believe the older version, or do you think they're gradually being told something which is more in tune with what you think? no, i think they carry the same old beliefs because all of their programmes would only focus on ancient egypt, nothing on the many other layers of egyptian heritage. that's one thing. and the other thing is that the whole what got them in here is this colonial narrative. it's not the narrative that we need to reshape. are you at least hopeful that in the future that might change, that the small children across the world will get a better understanding of all this? yes, i hope so. i hope so. and this can only come when acknowledging the colonial history that made ancient egypt the way it is imagined today. we need to acknowledge this first and then move on from there. well away from the big archeological sites, there are a whole bundle of things to do in egypt

if you were watching last week, you'd have seen me unearthing the story of how tutankhamun�*s tomb wasiscovered here 100 years ago this year. well, it's such a breathtaking location that we thought we'd stick around for a while to bring you this — our best bits of 2022. well, from the baking sun of here in egypt, let's switch to the snow of switzerland where, back in march, carmen got to experience a horse race like no other — where the jockeys don't need saddles. they use skis. this is st moritz in the swiss alps. it's the place, so they say, where the concept of the winter holiday was born. it also occupies a unique place in sporting history. it's where the bobsleigh was created, but skijoring is an even stranger sporting event than that. the race is a wild mix of horses, skiing, all done over this frozen lake. before the main event, i caught up with valeria, who's been crowned overall winner here twice in past years. before the first race, i always said, "why am i doing this?" and after the race, i said, "yeah, i know why!" 2009, i was the first woman to do skijoring. it was really

rajan heads to egypt's valley of the kings and visits tutankhamun, whose remains were discovered exactlythe historic find? so, this is the 12—year—old boy that they said really discovered the tomb. until then, you can find loads more amazing travel content from the bbc online by using the tags on the screen. but for now, from me, ade adepitan, and all of the travel show team here in volterra in italy, it's arrivederci. we'll see you soon. bye— bye! hello. no let—up in this cold spell. we had another very cold day on saturday and for many of us, sunday could be even colder, sharp frost around. this was the picture in derbyshire during saturday afternoon, and i think that frost really extensive to start the day on sunday. now, over the next few days, it is staying cold. further wintry showers in the forecast, icy stretches around and some freezing fog patches, so various winter hazards out there at the moment. as we go through the early hours of sunday morning, then, some icy stretches and wintry showers for parts of northern and eastern scotland, also around some of these irish sea coasts

rajan heads to egypt's valley of the kings and visits tutankhamun whose remains were discovered exactly made the historic find? so this is the 12—year—old boy that they said really discovered the tomb. until then, you can find loads more amazing travel content from the bbc online by using the tags on the screen. but for now from me, ade adepitan, and all of the travel show team here in volterra in italy, it's arrivederci. we'll see you soon. bye, bye! it has already been a cold week, it will be cold out into next week because the freezing fog will linger, temperatures will remain at freezing for much of the day. we have also had issues with icy stretches and a snow shower, and it has been better, temperatures overnight fail below minus nine celsius. the coldest night of the year so far. snow showers have been packing in across england, parts of northern and eastern scotland, north—east england, also south west as well, a couple more centimetres falling there during the day. fog is particularly prevalent in eastern areas, temperatures could hover at freezing there all day. 0vernight, thi

rajan heads to egypt's valley of the kings and visits tutankhamun, whose remains were discovered exactly find? so, this is the 12—year—old boy that they said really discovered the tomb. until then, you can find loads more amazing travel content from the bbc online by using the tags on the screen. but for now, from me, ade adepitan, and all of the travel show team here in volterra in italy, it's arrivederci. we'll see you soon. bye— bye! hello there. i am sure we could all do with with warm weather, it has been a cold day, some parts of the country have seen snow which have been snow free before. this was taking in wiltshire, we have these wintry hazards continuing for the next few days, well into next week. widespread fast and there will be some freezing fog as well. we have had that in cambridgeshire, temperatures are around three degrees below freezing, really cold day. a little bit of sunshine across parts of scotland, away from those showers, so temperatures have been a little bit higher but they will fall quickly during the evening. we have if you wintry showers across the north of

rajan heads to egypt's valley of the kings and visits tutankhamun, whose remains were discovered exactlyhistoric find? so, this is the 12—year—old boy that they said really discovered the tomb. until then, you can find loads more amazing travel content from the bbc online by using the tags on the screen. but for now, from me, ade adepitan, and all of the travel show team here in volterra in italy, it's arrivederci. we'll see you soon. vai, vai! hello there. this widespread and prolonged over five years. the next few days are staying cold, further snow showers forecast physically across parts of scotland, cold, frosty nights impairing visibility though as we lose the mist and fog we have had to start the week. we will start seeing sunshine. we have an area of low pressure close to the south and south—west of the uk, perhaps producing presentation first thing wednesday and cold northerly winds very heavy snow showers to the north so we can trace these wind arrows back to the arctic, that very cold, clear with us at the moment, but strong winds across parts of scotland over the next few day

rajan heads to egypt's valley of the kings and visits tutankhamun, whose remains were discovered exactlystoric find? so, this is the 12—year—old boy that they said really discovered the tomb. until then, you can find loads more amazing travel content from the bbc online by using the tags on the screen. but for now, from me, ade adepitan, and all of the travel show team here in volterra in italy, it's arrivederci. we'll see you soon. bye— bye! hello there. for many of us, the cold weather will last for the of this week and we had some sunshine on monday, but it was a really cold start to the day. temperatures in royal deeside, braemar got down to minus 15.7, the lowest temperature recorded in the uk for over a year. and after such a cold start to the day, temperatures only got up to minus 9.3 in braemar. that made it the coldest day for over a decade, according to provisional data from the met office. the cold weather has been brought in by an area of high pressure over greenland. that's losing its grip. heading into the weekend there are signs of something of a change across south—wester

you have tutankhamun here, so much tutankhamun. restoration work, is the home of the man widely credited with finding tutankhamun's burial chamber, howard carter. however, many say the egyptian contribution to all this has been overlooked, and i'm on my way to hear some of that story, and meet a family very well known in these parts, although, sadly, not outside this country. so it's interesting, with the two sides of the nile, i've just come from the east side, which is where there's all the shops, and life bustles on and people live there and stuff. but i'm heading now back to the emptier, less developed west side, where you'll find the tombs and burial chambers of the valley of the kings, and they call that the side of the dead. the abdel rassoul family run a cafe, these days. but generations of them farmed along the banks of the nile, and, as such, have an intimate knowledge of what lies on — and underneath — the dust and sand. so this is the 12—year—old boy that they said really discovered the tomb. he claims it was actually h

>> reporter: i visited egypt last month 100 years after the discovery and saw the treasures of tutankhamun when he started out there, all he found in his first season, moving thousands of tons of earth, was a mummified cat. many of us would have quit at that stage far from that, he was so determined, it spurred him on. >> reporter: the castle boasts 300 rooms, many like the library lavishly decorated for the christmas holiday. how many trees >> 60 inside and out. >> reporter: 6-0 >> 6-0. >> reporter: that's a big christmas. >> to your left. >> reporter: and in the dining room, the immaculate table is laid out with precision ready for a feast. with celebrations in mind, it's time for a holiday cocktail. louie is highclere castle's head butler he makes their signature gin and tonic. >> rosemary has a sort of a christmasy flavor. >> it does it's warm. and orange >> reporter: should i try? you can smell the orange and the rosemary oh ♪ for auld lang syne ♪ >> reporter: keeping in the spirit downton style, ready to ring in the year. ♪ for auld lang syne ♪ >> reporter: the castle is open to the

rajan heads to egypt's valley of the kings and visits tutankhamun, whose remains were discovered exactlyadlines today: england's world cup dream is over after a 2—1 defeat by france in the quarterfinal. yes, good morning from doha as the england team prepared to fly home, following the quarter—final exit at this world cup. we will be live at the england hotel in the next few moments. the search for survivors continues after an explosion which killed at least three people on jersey. hi—de-hi! tributes are paid to the actor ruth madoc, who's died at the age of 79. good morning. sunday brings yet further winter hazards, with ice quite widely, snow showers, and freezing fog. i will have a full forecast in about 15 minutes. it's sunday 11th december. our main story: england's footballers are expected to fly home later today, after their 2—1 world cup quarter—final defeat against france in qatar. captain harry kane says he accepts responsibility for the side's loss, after he missed a penalty that would have brought the teams level. john is in doha for us this morning with a round up of the rea