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Treasures of Ancient Egypt: With Alastair Sooke, Zahi Hawass, Salima Ikram, Anna Stevens. In 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.
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- HISTORY Vault: Engineering an Empire: Egypt
From King Tut's tomb to the pyramids, here are the greatest archaeological finds from Egypt.
Ancient Egypt may be long gone, but archaeologists keep finding its treasures.
For more than 3,000 years, one of history’s greatest civilizations flourished along the winding Nile River in northeast Africa. But after Egypt fell under first Greek, then Roman, and finally Muslim control, the ancient civilization’s glories were buried under layers of these different cultures, only to surface again centuries later as archaeologists and historians embraced the study known as Egyptology.
Beginning in the 19th century, bombshell discoveries such as the Rosetta Stone and the lavish tomb of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, as well as the excavation of the Pyramids at Giza, opened the doors to a new understanding of ancient Egypt’s mysteries, fueling an explosion of interest—and tourism.
Egyptian Pyramids
Many of ancient Egypt’s rulers—known today as pharaohs—built themselves elaborate monuments and tombs, inscribing them with their names and achievements in hieroglyphics. Through painstaking excavations, research and translation, modern scholars have used these written records to trace Egypt’s history and divide it into three distinct periods—known as the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms—with periods of relative instability in between.
Egyptian temples, fortresses, pyramids and palaces redefined the limits of architectural possibility and alerted Egypt's enemies: The world's most advanced civilization could accomplish anything.
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Nov 14, 2022 · Here are 30 fascinating treasures from Tutankhamun 's tomb and what they reveal about the iconic ancient Egyptian pharaoh 100 years after the discovery of his remains. 1. Death mask. The...
- Copies of the "Book of the Dead" The "Book of the Dead" is a modern-day name given to a series of texts that the ancient Egyptians sometimes buried with the deceased.
- Sarcophagi. Ancient Egyptians were sometimes buried in sarcophagi decorated with illustrations. Sometimes, these elaborate coffins have hieroglyphs that name the deceased and provide prayers for them.
- Mummy portraits. Mummy portraits show vivid images of the deceased. Examples painted on wooden panels were created between the middle of the first century and the middle of the third century A.D., while examples painted on shrouds kept being created through the fourth century, Susan Walker, an honorary curator and former keeper of antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, told Live Science in an email.
- Shabti figurines. Shabti (also known as ushabti) figurines were meant to work for the deceased in the afterlife. Depending on the tomb, a person could be buried with hundreds of shabtis.
Mar 14, 2021 · This epic adventure through Ancient Egypt tracks the treasures of the longest-lasting civilization in history and uncovers the true story of their rise and fall throughout the ages. Alastair Sooke tells the story of the art through 30 masterpieces.
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