The history of ancient Egypt /
A survey of the 3,000 years of Egyptian history, from prehistoric times to the death of Cleopatra.
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
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Chantilly, VA :
Teaching Co.,
[1999]
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| Series: | Great courses (DVD)
SuperStar teachers (DVD videodiscs) |
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. disc 1. Introduction ; Prehistoric Egypt ; Ancient Egyptian thought ; Napoleon and the beginnings of Egyptology ; The Rosetta Stone, and much more ; The first nation in history
- disc 2. The rise of the Old Kingdom ; Sneferu, the pyramid builder ; The Great Pyramid of Giza ; The end of the Old Kingdom ; The First Intermediate Period ; The Middle Kingdom, Dynasty XI
- pt. 2. disc 3. The Middle Kingdom, Dynasty XII ; The Second Intermediate Period ; Joseph in Egypt ; The beginning of the New Kingdom : the fabulous XVIIIth Dynasty ; Queen Hatshepsut ; Obelisks
- disc 4. Tuthmosis III, King at last ; The fabulous XVIIIth Dynasty rolls on ; Akhenaten, the heretic pharaoh ; The discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb ; The murder of Tutankhamen, a theory ; Medicine, the necessary art
- pt. 3. disc 5. The end of Dynasty XVIII ; Mummification, how we know what we know ; What mummies tell us ; Making a modern mummy ; Dynasty XIX begins ; Ramses the Great, the early years
- disc 6. Ramses the Great, the later years ; The exodus, did it happen? ; The decline of Dynasty XIX ; Dynasty XX, the decline continues ; Ancient Egyptian magic ; Dynasty XXI, Egypt divided
- pt. 4. disc 7. Dynasty XXII, Egypt united ; Dynasty XXV, the Nubians have their day ; Dynasty XXVI, the Saite period ; Dynasty XXVII, the Persians ; Dynasties XXVIII to XXXI, the beginning of the end ; Alexander the Great
- disc 8. The first Ptolemies ; The middle Ptolemies, the decline ; Animal mummies ; Cleopatra's family ; Cleopatra, the last Ptolemy ; The grand finale.