Egypt
- Tv Review: The Pharoah And The Showman
http://tinyurl.com/v8vmc (smh.com.au) "BBC documentary re-enacts the discovery and resurrection of Egypt's greatest monuments by Giovanni Belzoni, a failed carnival strongman hired to move a large head of Ramses for the British consul. It's a...
- Review: Egypt Untold
http://tinyurl.com/9wusx (Hollywood Reporter) Review of the first in a three part series about ancient Egypt and its explorers, showing on the Discovery Channel in the US: "The first in a trilogy of films on Egypt (Secrets of the Rosetta Stone and Rameses:...
- Trivia: Interactive Bbc
http://blog.itvt.com/my_weblog/2005/10/bbc_develops_in.html "BBC news: the Corporation is offering a red-button application to accompany its new historical drama-documentary series, "Egypt," which traces how the mysteries of ancient Egypt were uncovered...
- Bbc Films Documentary In Aswan
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o280725h.htm "A BBC team is currently visiting Aswan to film a documentary series on the history of King Tutankhamen and the pharaohs. The series will consist of six episodes and will be broadcasted in the UK and France....
- Curse Of The Pharaohs Hits Bbc Drama
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1706043,00.html "The curse of Tutankhamun has struck the BBC. A series about the wonders of ancient Egypt has turned into what crew members describe as a 'fiasco in the desert', with an overspend of...
Egypt
Review: BBC's Egypt series
http://tinyurl.com/tuub4 (theage.com.au)
"The BBC's Egypt relives the bitter rivalry between Britain and France. . . . The desperate military, political and scholarly competition between the two European powers plays a large role in the six-part dramatised documentary series Egypt, which Bradshaw produced for the BBC.
The series devotes two episodes to each of three stories: Howard Carter's discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen; Italian Giovanni Belzoni's explorations of southern Egypt on behalf of the British; and the race between the finest minds of Britain and France to unlock the secrets of the hieroglyphs."
The series devotes two episodes to each of three stories: Howard Carter's discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen; Italian Giovanni Belzoni's explorations of southern Egypt on behalf of the British; and the race between the finest minds of Britain and France to unlock the secrets of the hieroglyphs."
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http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=24&ContentID=13285
"The stories of Howard Carter, who made one of the greatest ever archaeological finds when he discovered Tutankhamen’s intact tomb, circus strongman and adventurer Giovanni Belzoni, who unearthed the 3000-year-old monuments of Rameses II, and Jean-Francois Champollion, who cracked the code of the hieroglyphs via the Rosetta Stone, are revealed in the handsome six-part documentary drama Egypt, which began on Seven and GWN last Sunday. Series producer Paul Bradshaw says the stories were so compelling that they derailed original plans for a series focused purely on ancient history. Instead, Egypt became a fully dramatised account of the men behind these critical discoveries."
- Tv Review: The Pharoah And The Showman
http://tinyurl.com/v8vmc (smh.com.au) "BBC documentary re-enacts the discovery and resurrection of Egypt's greatest monuments by Giovanni Belzoni, a failed carnival strongman hired to move a large head of Ramses for the British consul. It's a...
- Review: Egypt Untold
http://tinyurl.com/9wusx (Hollywood Reporter) Review of the first in a three part series about ancient Egypt and its explorers, showing on the Discovery Channel in the US: "The first in a trilogy of films on Egypt (Secrets of the Rosetta Stone and Rameses:...
- Trivia: Interactive Bbc
http://blog.itvt.com/my_weblog/2005/10/bbc_develops_in.html "BBC news: the Corporation is offering a red-button application to accompany its new historical drama-documentary series, "Egypt," which traces how the mysteries of ancient Egypt were uncovered...
- Bbc Films Documentary In Aswan
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o280725h.htm "A BBC team is currently visiting Aswan to film a documentary series on the history of King Tutankhamen and the pharaohs. The series will consist of six episodes and will be broadcasted in the UK and France....
- Curse Of The Pharaohs Hits Bbc Drama
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1706043,00.html "The curse of Tutankhamun has struck the BBC. A series about the wonders of ancient Egypt has turned into what crew members describe as a 'fiasco in the desert', with an overspend of...