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Tutankhamun's Tomb and the Rosetta Stone (5/5)

This is also part of this series: Days that Shook the World (5)

Subjects: Anthropology, Biographies, History, Media Studies, Political Science, Terrorism, War

Grade Level: JrH-Adult
Producer: BBC
Closed Captioned: No

Running Time: 50 mins
Country of Origin: Great Britain
Study Guide: No

Copyright Date: 2003
Available in French: No

The mysteries of Ancient Egypt have long held enormous fascination. In the early 1800s, the first Europeans were exploring Egypt's enigmatic ruins and the race was on in Britain and France to crack the hieroglyphic language which had been lost for 13 centuries. The study of Egyptology was born. One hundred years later, archaeologists declared prematurely that the Valley of the Kings held no more secrets; its greatest treasure had yet to be discovered. Using dramatic reconstruction, this film tells the stories of two great days in Egyptology: when Jean-Francois Champollion cracked the hieroglyphic code, and when Howard Carter read the name, Tutankahmun, on a lost tomb.

Also known as “Egyptology: Tutankhamun's tomb and Rosetta Stone”