Good morning, I am finishing up with the Eternal Egypt series, finally! This series has been a challenge to review. There are better documentaries out there available on ancient Egypt. Be glad that I watched this series and you did not have to. I have never seen a documentary on Ancient Egypt not be about ancient Egypt before in my life. The run time for this episode is 51:46 and is called Death.
Mummies have become synonymous with Ancient Egypt. The episode kicks off with a trip to Luxor and a funeral celebration. Okay, still with the modern Egypt stuff. This section discusses the heat and how the workers begin their day early to avoid it. There is a funeral announcement read over loudspeakers while driving a truck. Nobody will come to the funeral if nobody hears the announcement of the funeral. Funerals are important for people to attend to pray people into heaven. The next sections talk about mummies. Many of the Egyptian mummies are on display in the museum in Cairo. The mummies are the stars of the museum. The mummies are incredibly well preserved and some of the mummies are unwrapped showing their bodies. Nowadays, the mummies are kept in their wrappings. One may have spent his life studying and restoring the mummies. He shows off the sarcophagus of a young woman. She had died as a result of a miscarriage. The drawings on the sarcophagus are incredibly well done. It seems to be implied that mummification happened by chance when Egyptians would bury their dead in a ditch in the desert. The sand would preserve the bodies. However, later they would find more effective processes to help with the mummification process. They would soak the mummies in natron salt to remove every hint of moisture. A mummy’s arm is shown off, and this arm came from a pharaoh. The mummification techniques were so effective that we can identify the mummies. Mummification continued on over the centuries. Egyptian invaders also adopted mummification techniques. One of the mummies shown off in this section is of a Roman person. Then there is a discussion on the funeral masks. The masks were created to help the mummy regain their senses in the afterlife. The Romans adopted this practice, but instead of using gold to make the masks, they would paint the person’s face. The next place this documentary goes to is the Theban Hills. This was where many Ancient Egyptians were buried. Over 600 tombs have been recorded in this area. A tour guide always makes it a point to visit this area to keep up to date on the latest discoveries made in this area. It is a challenge to learn everything there is about these tombs, but the tour guide makes the effort to keep up to date with the newest discoveries. These hills are divided into three areas: the Valley of the Kings, the Valley of the Queens, and the Valley of the Nobles. These divisions help Egyptologists keep the area and what is found straight. Today, this tour guide goes to a tomb in the Valley of the Nobles. The tomb belongs to a vizier and this tour guide looks at the image of a funeral procession. The images show the grave goods going into the tomb. The deceased would have tried to live the same life he lived in the afterlife that he did in his lifetime. The images also show the mourning that was done for the deceased. The tour guide ends his tour of the tomb with a look at where the burial chamber was located. Then there is a discussion on Tutankhamun’s tomb. It had been discovered by Howard Carter and he found 5,000 objects in the tomb. In general, the grave goods would have been stolen over the generations by grave robbers. Well, this episode concludes this series on Eternal Egypt. Overall, this series was a disappointment. With their talk about new discoveries about Ancient Egypt, they spent a whole lot of time on modern Egypt. Who knew you could make a documentary about Ancient Egypt that was not really about Ancient Egypt? I would not show this documentary to a history classroom.
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