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- StarsAlastair SookeZahi HawassSalima IkramIn this 3 part series Alistair Sooke visits 30 great treasures of Egyptian art, some in Egypt either in situ or in the Cairo Museum, others in museums elsewhere.
- StarsJoann FletcherDr. Joann Fletcher investigates in this set of two documentaries, what life and death were like for the normal person 3500 years ago in Egypt.
- DirectorRachel BentleyStarsSacha KrjatianLachlan MantellBen can't wait to roll up his sleeves and become a crime scene detective - he's even got a fingerprint kit to make a start! In this episode, presenter Sacha takes Ben to meet real-life forensic scientist and crime photographer Dr Glenn Porter to help realise his dreams. Later in the show, presenter Lachlan takes seven-year-old Amber on a journey to ancient Egypt with the help of Ronika Power, where she comes face-to-face with a real Egyptian mummy!
- 2009– 42mTV-PG6.8 (7)TV EpisodeThe Great Pyramid is not only a Wonder of the Ancient World but was also the world's tallest man-made structure for 3,800 years. Egyptians built this and more with only manpower. Engineering experts work to decode construction the way the ancients did it.
- DirectorStan MullerStarsJohn Green
- DirectorDeAgostini EditoreStarsZahi HawassFamous Egyptologist, Zahi Hawass takes us on an incredible intimate journey into exclusive never-before-seen excavation sites in Ancient Egypt. The spectator is live at the center of the discovery as tombs are opened only for our cameras, and the mysteries of Egyptian culture are revealed.
- DirectorBen MoleStarsDemetri GoritsasMansour BoraikPeter Brand
- StarsAndrew SachsNeji NejahElliot CowanDramatization of the great discoveries of ancient Egypt, from the exploration of tombs in the early 1800s, to the unraveling of the Rosetta Stone to translate the ancient language on the tombs, to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.
- DirectorChristopher CasselStarsRita B-Lamotte
- DirectorJud CremataStarsMichael GuillenDoug JefferyThe Edwin Smith Papyrus in New York, gives amazing insights into the way the Ancient Egyptians pioneered medicine, and laid the foundations for modern treatment in diverse areas such as gynaecology and psychoanalysis.
- DirectorJud CremataStarsMichael GuillenDoug JefferyDiscover how monumental masterpieces including the Great Pyramid, Library at Alexander, Temple of Karnak, Sphinx, and obelisks were built using only the most primitive tools and brute labor.
- DirectorClive MaltbyStarsDan McSherryJohn ShrapnelAt the dawn of history, the ancient Egyptians first showed the world how to ... all » build the impossible. In an age before machines, when copper was the strongest metal yet discovered, great Pharaohs like Khufu and Ramses II demonstrated how boundless ambition and vast quantities of human labor could transform limestone and granite into some of the most incredible monuments ever created the spectacular tombs in the Valley of the Kings, the mysterious Sphinx of Giza, the iconic Great Pyramid and more. Uncover the secrets of Ancient Egypt's pharaohs, engineers and architects and watch as cutting-edge computer modeling recreates the stunning monuments these visionaries built. It's an impressive look at the greatest architecture of the greatest civilization in the history of Africa and perhaps the world.
- DirectorAlan EyresStarsJulian Parry
- DirectorGareth WilliamsStarsDavid SoulA scientific explanation for the notorious curse of Tutankhamun and a new analysis of the biblical account of the ten plagues.
- DirectorChris GormlieThink of Ancient Egypt and you think of the great Pyramids at Giza - but these incredible structures are not the only treasures left to us by a truly remarkable civilization. This program visits, explores and restores such wonders as the Temples at Al Karnak and Luxor, the Temple at Abu Simnel and more.
- DirectorStuart ClarkeStarsBill Graves
- StarsBernard HillAlain AswaniJeremy SistoEach of the four separate episodes -rather independent chapters- presents some of the findings of Egyptology, largely in the form of realistically presented docudrama, a splendid spectacle by peplum-standards, yet unusually true and hence surprising for non-specialist viewers in various details. Remarkable is the revealed contrast between the image-building clichés presented by the official, mostly monumental sources, glorifying deified pharaohs' glorious reign and triumphs and 'celestial' deities, and the more mundane reality, deduced largely from other archaeological findings, showing more human vices, misery, crime...
- DirectorDeborah PerkinStarsChris NauntonJeffrey BlakelyDebbie ChallisDocumentary about English Egyptologist Flinders Petrie, the pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology. Ancient Egypt was vandalised by tomb raiders and treasure hunters until this Victorian adventurer took them on. Most people have never heard of him, but this maverick undertook a scientific survey of the pyramids, discovered the oldest portraits in the world, unearthed Egypt's prehistoric roots - and in the process invented modern field archaeology, giving meaning to a whole civilisation.
- 2005–TV EpisodeDirectorNaomi AustinStarsDan Cruickshank
- StarsDan CruickshankDocumentary series in which Dan Cruickshank explores some of the most intriguing stories from Ancient Egypt.