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The first episode of the Documentary, Drama, series Egypt season 1 was released in 2005-10-30 by BBC One. The TV show was created by and directed by Jonathan Rich. Actors in the cast include Matthew Kelly, Lynsey Baxter, Andrew Sachs, Julian Wadham, Caroline Langrishe, Laurence Fox, Elliot Cowan, Alexandra Weaver, Stuart Graham, Valentine Pelka. The avarenge rating on IMDB: is / 10. Series awards - .

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Episode 1

The Search for Tutankhamun

air day: 2005-10-30

Carter’s fledgling profession in Egyptology suffers a blow when a tomb he opens to very large fanfare is discovered to be empty.

Undeterred from his ambitions, Carter components firm from his companion, Thedore Davis, and resumes his work as an archaeological artist and desperately hopes he’ll discover a new patron.

A gathering with the maverick Lord Carnarvon is to vary Carter’s life endlessly. Carnarvon – who has come to Egypt to get better from a horrific automobile accident – has develop into obsessive about discovering an undamaged tomb and groups up with Carter within the seek for the elusive burial website of the Boy King Tutankhamun.

They start digging however are unable to excavate The Valley of the Kings as Carter’s previous rival, Davis, owns the one concession to excavate.

By 1912, Davis believes he has found all the most important finds in The Valley, together with the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Carter, sure that Tutankhamum stays undiscovered, persuades Carnarvon to safe the allow to proceed to excavate in The Valley of the Kings.

However, simply because the group start work, battle breaks out with Germany and the dig is suspended. Carter and Carnarvon resume their work with renewed vigour when the battle ends and The Valley of the Kings is explored piece by piece.

Excavations proceed till 1922, when, pissed off with the dearth of progress and nearing monetary break, Carnarvon decides to tug out.

Carter is devastated and pleads with him to rethink, even providing to pay for the dig himself. Eventually Carnarvon relents and, whereas excavating the final plot, the water boy discovers a step that seems to be a part of a tomb.

Carnarvon and his daughter, Evelyn, watch nervously as Carter makes a gap within the first plaster-sealed entrance. Placing a candle by the opening, he’s surprised by what he sees: an antechamber crammed with all kinds of Royal possessions, together with wonderful golden chariots and different ‘fantastic issues’ to take the Pharaoh to his afterlife.

Instead of instantly summoning the authorities, as is Egyptian regulation, Carnarvon persuades Carter to make a small gap within the subsequent chamber. He finds that it’s an intact burial chamber and realises that he has lastly discovered his personal Holy Grail – the final resting place of Tutankhamun…

In parallel with Carter’s story, the programme traces the primary 12 months of the reign of King Tutankhamun. Ascending to the throne on the age of 9, the Boy King was made to marry his half-sister, Ankhesanamun; between them, they had been anticipated to proceed the dynasty.

One of the brand new King’s first acts would have been to begin work on the constructing of his tomb – work that might proceed till his demise.

Episode 2

The Curse Of Tutankhamun

air day: 2005-11-06

The story of the tomb of Tutankhamun captivates the world’s media and propels Carnarvon and Carter to on the spot movie star standing across the globe.

The final prize that Howard Carter has sought all his grownup life yields greater than he may ever think about: 1000’s of priceless artefacts, ultimately topped by the strong gold coffin and demise masks of Tutankhamun.

However, Carter is uneasy together with his new-found movie star standing, and the absence of any actual historic data frustrates him.

As the dig progresses within the warmth of the Egyptian desert, tensions between Carter and his group start to boil over…

Carter is working within the full gaze of publicity – the whole lot he does is underneath the watchful eyes of packs of worldwide journalists.

He realises that to be able to protect the tomb’s contents for posterity, his work has solely simply begun.

Meanwhile, Carnarvon is desperately attempting to maintain the press at bay. In order to minimise the disturbance for these working on the website, he strikes an unique take care of The Times.

This angers different journalists, particularly Weigall from The Daily Mail, who begins writing tales claiming the tomb is cursed.

With all the fabric from the antechamber eliminated, Carter’s group start to interrupt by to the chamber past. Finally, it’s the day Carter has been ready for all his life and he’s delighted when he can formally open the burial chamber of Tutankhamun.

Unfortunately, underneath the phrases of Carnarvon’s settlement with the Egyptian Director-General of Antiquities, if the location accommodates an intact Pharaoh’s tomb its contents should revert again to the Egyptian Government.

Carnarvon and Carter play for time and persuade the authorities to allow them to excavate the remainder of the chamber.

From the opening of the burial chamber, issues start to go badly fallacious. Carter turns into more and more irritated and sacks key colleagues. Carnarvon and Carter argue over his pedantic administration of the tomb, and Carter’s ‘friendship’ together with his daughter, Evelyn.

Finally, a wierd contaminated mosquito chunk on Carnarvon’s cheek causes blood poisoning and he dies in Cairo, fuelling the curse tales again in England.

Soon, it’s extensively believed that Tutankhamun has killed Lord Carnarvon. Carter is devastated by his solely pal’s demise and is now main the excavation alone.

Without the diplomatic expertise of Carnarvon, the ambiance on the dig grows very tense.

In the burial chamber, a nest of 4 golden shrines, every sitting throughout the different, are eliminated, to disclose a stone sarcophagus.

The lid is raised to disclose the primary, outer coffin. It appears sure that the tomb does, certainly, comprise the stays of Tutankhamun.

As the sarcophagus is found, Carter has a disagreement with the Egyptian authorities. The incident is trivial however Carter stops work as a matter of precept.

By doing so, he breaks his contract with the authorities and the Director of Antiquities strikes in and takes the important thing to the tomb; devastated, Carter returns to England.

All appears misplaced for Carter, notably with the demise of one other shut colleague.

However, again in England, he receives information that there was a dramatic change within the political local weather in Egypt and the Director of Antiquities invitations him again to work.

At final, the stays of Carter’s group elevate the lid of the third coffin, created from strong gold, and Carter comes nose to nose with the person he has looked for relentlessly for almost three a long time.

In parallel with Carter’s story, the programme additionally tells the tragic story of how Tutankhamun died with out an inheritor on the age of 18; how he was mummified, buried and his identify ultimately erased from historical past… Tutankhamun would lay forgotten till Carter’s discovery of his tomb.

Episode three

The Pharoah and the Showman

air day: 2005-11-13

Belzoni fails to please Pasha Ali of Egypt and his new profession in ‘water mechanics’ fails. He is penniless and stranded in Cairo with out work.

Just 16 years after the invasion by Napoleon, the passion of Europeans for all issues Egyptian is rising and there may be intense rivalry between explorers and collectors – the rivalry is especially intense between the French and the British.

In Cairo, Belzoni meets two males who will change his life for ever.

The first is John Lewis Burkhardt, who, disguised as an Arab, has travelled to unknown Egyptian temples which have remained misplaced from the world for hundreds of years.

The different is Henry Salt, the British Counsel General, eager to make his identify as a collector.

Inspired by the tales of Burkhardt, Salt affords Belzoni a job: to journey down the Nile to Thebes to gather a large seven-ton granite bust named the ‘Younger Memnon’ from an Egyptian temple.

The French have tried and did not elevate it, so Anglophile Belzoni rises to the problem to be able to deliver it again for the British Museum.

At the time, no person can but learn hieroglyphics however the ‘Youger Memon’ is, actually, the likeness of Ramesses II, the best of all Pharaohs.

Belzoni discovers he has the right expertise for the job: huge power, engineering data, maverick intelligence and wit mixed with bravery and crafty, and the pinnacle of Ramesses II is quickly on its approach to Henry Salt again in Cairo.

Flushed with success, Belzoni and his crew resolve to journey additional down the Nile to seek for extra collectable artefacts for Salt.

Near the border with modern-day Sudan, they arrive at a tremendous temple carved straight out of the mountain – unbeknown to them, they’ve discovered Ramesses the Great’s Temple at Abu Simbel.

However, to Belzoni’s frustration, he can not discover the doorway as many of the temple is roofed in tons of sand. Intrigued and fascinated, Belzoni vows to return…

In parallel with Belzoni’s story, the programme tells that of Ramesses II: how he got here from a army dynasty and went on to reign for an unbelievable 67 years, fathering over 100 kids and erecting a few of Ancient Egypt’s most spectacular monuments.

Episode four

The Temple Of The Sands

air day: 2005-11-20

The Great Belzoni, actor, strongman, and engineer, has now turned all his attentions to changing into a well-known adventurer. In episode 4 of Egypt, Belzoni makes a few of his best discoveries, and uncovers the doorway to The Temple Of Ramesses at Abu Simbel.

Belzoni’s new ambition is to be the best collector in historical past, however within the vogue of all good swashbuckling tales, he has a rival.

Drovetti, the tenacious French collector, is ready to thwart him at his each flip.

Henry Salt asks Belzoni to return to Thebes and Philae to seek out extra artefacts for the British Museum. However, Belzoni does not realise that Salt is utilizing him to furnish his personal assortment and promote artefacts to the best bidder.

Belzoni is only some miles down the Nile when he runs into Drovetti’s males, who’re additionally on their approach to Thebes. A race throughout the desert then follows as Belzoni tries to stop Drovetti’s males from stealing his treasured collections at Thebes.

But when he arrives, Belzoni finds he’s too late and Drovetti is properly superior within the technique of eradicating the whole lot he can from the good temples.

This setback solely companies Belzoni’s resolve and he finds one other lovely and colossal statue.

Infuriated, Drovetti threatens Belzoni so, underneath the quilt of darkness, he slips anchor and heads south. On reaching Abu Simbel, Belzoni has the issue of shifting the tons of sand surrounding the opening to the temple.

It proves an not possible job; each time they attempt to dig a gap, extra sand flows in to fill it. Soon, the labourers lose persistence and depart.

Then Belzoni has an concept. To make the sand simpler to dig he wets it with water from the Nile, after which builds a palm tree fence across the opening of the temple to stop sand from flowing in.

Eventually, they break by the highest of the temple’s doorway and slip inside. The inside of the temple is spectacular, that includes colossal statues of Ramesses II which help the ceiling, and fabulous reliefs telling the story of his life.

Spurred by the invention, a triumphant Belzoni goes on to thwart his arch-enemy Drovetti, discovering many misplaced tombs resembling these of Seti I, father of Ramesses II.

In parallel with Belzoni’s story, the programme tells how Ramesses II secured his place in historical past as the best Pharaoh – a warrior and diplomat who turned a god.

Episode 5

The Mystery of the Rosetta Stone

air day: 2005-11-27

This is the story of Jean-François Champollion, the good linguist, genius and one of many first true Egyptologists.

The programme begins in Egypt in 1798, when the nation had been just about closed to Europeans for hundreds of years and its historic tradition misplaced and forgotten for over a thousand years.

Napoleon has with him students, together with antiquarians and linguists, whose job it’s to unravel the mysteries of historic Egypt.

But they had been in a position to obtain little greater than to color its lovely ruined monuments and surprise what all of it meant, for Egypt’s secrets and techniques had been locked within the unusual historic writings, the hieroglyphs.

Meanwhile, Napoleon’s troopers have unearthed a rare object that gives a vital clue. The Rosetta Stone has written on it a proclamation by Pharaoh Ptolemy V, in three totally different texts, Greek, and the frequent writing of the time, the sacred script of the hieroglyphs.

However, earlier than a translation can start, the British defeat Napoleon and The Rosetta Stone is taken as a spoil of battle to the British Museum.

The French are left solely with copies…

Back in Europe, the Stone proves not possible to decipher, and the best minds within the continent quit. Authorities on both facet of the Channel seek for a genius. Anglo–French rivalry intensifies when the 2 geniuses recruited for the duty start work.

Englishman Thomas Young, an ideal scientist with a razor-sharp analytical thoughts, and an excellent linguist, the younger Frenchman Jean-François Champollion, begin the race to crack the hieroglyphics.

Young takes a sometimes methodical method, basically utilizing arithmetic – evaluating the scripts to analyse how usually sure phrases or hieroglyphs seem.

He makes a lot of breakthroughs, together with figuring out easy methods to learn the identify of the Pharaoh Ptolemy.

Young all the time believes that the traditional hieroglyphs are actually simply symbols (like street indicators) and don’t make sounds in the identical method as phrases do – to him, The Rosetta Stone is nothing greater than a large crossword puzzle.

Champollion instinctively takes a really totally different method. He has already learnt Coptic, a language that survives solely within the Egyptian Coptic Church, as a result of he believes that it’s the nearest residing language to that spoken by the Ancient Egyptians.

Through his linguistic capability, he is ready to hint again Coptic to earlier types of Egyptian writing, and past, all the way in which again to the hieroglyphs.

He makes the important thing breakthrough, that the hieroglyphs are extra than simply symbols – they may make sounds, too, identical to an alphabet.

Champollion brings honour to France and discovers the important thing to unlocking the secrets and techniques of Egypt. However, he must go there to learn the story of the Egyptians for himself, and, in doing so, got here to the eye of the Catholic Church…

Episode 6

The Secrets of the Hieroglyphs

air day: 2005-12-04

In the ultimate episode of Egypt, Jean-François Champollion has unlocked the traditional Egyptian hieroglyphs however, in doing so, faces opposition from the Church and a problem to his personal beliefs.

The programme begins in 1815, when everybody in Europe has been contaminated with a fascination for Ancient Egypt. The King of France buys – at large price – a aid, faraway from the ceiling of the temple of Dendera in Egypt.

Various consultants consider this to be an historic temple. There is far pleasure about simply how previous it truly is. If it was a lot older than 2,000 BC, it threatens the established chronology of the Bible.

Jean-François Champollion is invited to present an opinion by one of many King’s aides, the Duc de Blacas. This is the primary take a look at of his capability to grasp hieroglyphs.

Known as a free thinker, his presence makes the Church nervous. However, to everybody’s shock, Champollion declares, fairly undoubtedly, that the aid was made after the beginning of Christ, as a result of crude high quality of its artwork and the existence of some hieroglyphs that spell the identify of a Roman chief.

It is the primary dramatic and really public demonstration of Champollion’s understanding of the hieroglyphs.

In 1824 he’s invited to Italy to see a number of the world’s best collections of Egyptian artefacts. While there, he discovers, to his delight, that he can learn fairly simply all of the hieroglyphs he sees.

He can be in a position to decipher historic lists of Egyptian Pharaohs and components of the e book of the useless, describing the journey of the Pharaoh by the afterlife.

He is the one particular person on the planet who understands easy methods to learn hieroglyphs, however not everybody believes him. Jealous lecturers in Paris and elsewhere are ready to disprove him.

Now Champollion is determined to check his talent within the temples and tombs of Ancient Egypt however, as a poor nation boy, can not fund his personal voyage.

The Church hears of Champollion’s want to journey to Egypt and so they provide to help him on the situation that he by no means reveals any findings that contradict the teachings of the Church.

As a deeply spiritual and now determined man, Champollion agrees. He assembles a mixed Tuscan-French group and travels the size of Egypt, stopping in as many tombs and temples as he can.

They surprise at The Great Pyramids at Giza after which go to the the oldest pyramid on the planet at Saqqara.

Here, Champollion discovers a tomb coated in historic hieroglyphs. It offers him a tremendous perception into the lives of the Ancient Egyptians, together with their calendar.

It additionally tells him one thing unbelievable concerning the age of the world. The tomb belongs to a person referred to as Menofre who was Royal hairdresser to a King referred to as Djedkare – a King who lived in the course of the fifth dynasty, one which predated Noah’s Flood and, in accordance with the Church and the Bible, couldn’t have existed.

Champollion is awestruck by this data and, a number of a long time earlier than Darwin, this was a discovery that threw into doubt the very date of creation.

But not like Darwin, Champollion has to maintain it to himself and it’s a revelation that should go together with him to his grave.

Finally, Champollion involves The Valley of the Kings, the place he spends months strolling from tomb to tomb, studying the hieroglyphs.

Here, finally, he begins to grasp the Ancient Egyptian faith, the motivation behind the development of the pyramids, the temples and the tombs.

For the primary time in over a thousand years, their system of perception and the true function of their Pharaoh develop into clear. Champollion has single-handedly unlocked the secrets and techniques of the misplaced civilisation of Ancient Egypt.

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