Mysteries of Egypt Page #2

Synopsis: Egypt is and ever was a place of mystery. Many rumors spread around the great Pyramids of Gizeh (the only one of the seven wonders of the world left), their age ranges - in different theories - between 3,000 and even 12,000 years. Here, an old Egyptian is asked by his granddaughter about those mysteries of which we all heard in one way or the other. The action takes us to Howard Carter, who, after years and years of searching, finally found King Tutankhamen's (Tut-ench-Amun) grave in 1922. This was a major event in archaeology, as this grave was never robbed and therefore in the same condition as it was left (est.) 1339 B.C. We also get to see the Nile's wells and other historic landmarks that make Egypt an important part of world history.
Director(s): Bruce Neibaur
Production: Destination Cinema
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IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
53
Rotten Tomatoes:
75%
Year:
1998
38 min
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moved hundreds of miles by boat

rolled on logs and perhaps | levered up with huge timbers.

Giant statues | of Ramses The Great

carved at Abu Simbel are still | some of the largest fingures

ever sculpted from solid stone.

We don't know how they did it, | but we do know why

to honer the pharaohs, | both in life and after death.

Honor the pharaohs after | death...

Does that have anything to do | with mummies?

Yes.

Look at Tutankhamen, | for example.

When the young king died

the priests sought to create | a magical new body for him.

For 70 days they labored | drying and preserving

the royal body | with salts and ointments

then wrapping it | in hundreds of feet of linen

laden with protective jewels, | charms and amulets.

And finally crowning the mummy

with an exquisite | golden death mask.

Tutankhamen was ready | for the afterlife.

Had the boy lived and died | a thousand years earlier

he would have been buried | like pharaohs long before him...

in a mounment | of colossal proportions-

a man-made mountain of stone | called "the pyramids."

They probably saw | the pyramid shape

as a mystical link | beyween earth and sky

providing the pharaoh's soul | with a stairway to the heavens.

Of the fabled Seven Wonders of | the Ancient World

only the Pyramids of Giza | remain

made more than 4,000 years ago.

Nearly 500 feet tall

they contain some of the largest | pieces of stone

ever moved by humans

as much as 50 tons or more.

Yet, this was accomplished | without wheels or pulleys

or even hand-tools.

How in the world did | they do it without | modern machinery?

The Gods | certainly didn't do it

They used their minds.

knowledge built | these great, | reat structures.

Highly sophisticated | knowledge.

Look...

All of the Giza pyramids | are built

in perfect alignment | with certain stars.

That takes a knowledge | of astronomy.

The pyramids' foundations

are laid out in perfect angles | and dimensions

precisely correct for the height | they wanted to reach.

Now, that takes knowledge | of geometry and mathematics.

And finally

you must get these big stones | from down here to up there

and you must make them all | fit perfectly.

Now, that takes knowledge-

an incredible knowledge | of engineering and organization.

Organization?

Absolutely.

You just said so yourself.

It wasn't the Gods who built | these great monuments.

It was people.

Thousand and thousands | of people.

lmagine begin one | of these people

living in a tiny village | more than 4,000 years ago.

Life would be pretty much | the same day in and day out:

Farming, herding cattle, | fishing in the Nile.

Then one day, you're selected

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