The main public series returns for a third season. Where we find Ramses II, Tutankhamon, Cleopatra and a few mummies.
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Getting in the skin of archaeologists, live their daily life, by 40 degrees without shadow, at the rate of hopes, small and big discoveries … This is the originality of this documentary series whose third season is broadcast current January . A secure and unpretentary value, which looks with pleasure, even by the non-archeophiles or those who know nothing about Egyptology.
Pleasure of the eyes above all in the impressive frame of the left bank of the Nile, which houses about sixty tombs of the main pharaohs of the new empire (about 1500 to – 1000 BC), but also queens , princes and elites of the XVII e , xix e dynasties which reigned over this period, of Thutmosis i Er at the line of Ramses.
Ramses II, Tutankhamon, Cleopatra …
The series is general. Hence the historical reminders made in animated whose pointillist graphics echoes the omnipresent sand. And the themes chosen: only “superstars” of ancient Egypt, such as Ramses II (tonight), Tutankhamon (2 episodes), Cleopatra … not to mention the ultra-popular subjects like falling plumbing, mummies, sarcophagi …
The regulars will also find immediately some “recurring” characters of Egyptology, like the eccentric Colleen Darnell, ubiquitous in the episode the ascent of Ramses II. Depending on the mood of each, this American to the fake tunes of Louise Brooks, dressed in the fashion of the crazy years, will appear or horripilera, while serving as a guide – scholar, his research on the Egyptian military history are authoritative – in the maze Remains of the Temple of Karnak and the Fief of the Celebration Pharaoh Ramses II “The Great”, the vast architectural complex of Thebes.
Programmed after, the time of the mummies loses extravagance what it gains in originality and authenticity. Thus to Saqqarah, south of Cairo, vast necropolis of the region of Memphis known to shelter the funerary complex of the king Djeser and his pyramid in degrees, the viewer meets Salima Ikram, a Pakistani born in 1965, Egyptology professor at the American University of Cairo. Falling in love with Egypt at 9, the young woman is today specialized in the study of mummies of all kinds – human, but also cats, dogs, lion …
A spectacular 3D reconstitution makes it possible to sneak in a corridor entirely covered with paints and to enter a funerary chamber where, from the debris found, the mummy is reconstituted before our eyes.
The childish side of scientists is refreshing, always ready they are to be raised in front of a fragment of pottery. “Let’s go!”, Lance Basem Gehad, before opening what looks like a small longer casket. “Will he discover a mummy?”, Questions the voice off to comments. Built according to the same scenario, each episode ends with a kind of final bouquet of discoveries. A nice trip … in time to start the year.