Ancient Egypt: The Rosetta Stone
For hundreds of years the glorious history of Ancient Egypt remained a mystery to the world, its secrets locked away in the baffling language of the hieroglyphs. But in 1799, French troops near the Egyptian town of Rosetta discovered an ancient basalt slab that would prove to be the key to unlocking Egypt's mysteries. Carved in 196 BC, the Rosetta stone bore a decree praising the Egyptian king Ptolemy V etched in hieroglyphs, demotic Egyptian and Greek. From the discovery and the long struggle to uncover the secrets of the ancient language, to the birth of modern Egyptology, this is the fascinating saga of the Rosetta Stone.
Year: 2007
Genre: Documentaries, Historical
Country: USA
Duration: 46 Minutes
Rating: Ex
6.6/10
Location in store: Documentary (Historical)
AVAILABILITY
DVD AVAILABLE NOW!
Permanent Collection
For in-store pickup reservations please call 03 3650 615
ALICE ALSO SUGGESTS:
Mysteries Of Egypt ( IMAX ) (1999)
This stunning National Geographic film takes you through five millennia of splendour of one of the w...
Lost Civilizations: Egypt (1995)
Egypt: Quest For Immortality. Under the desert sand, in a world where every death was a new beginnin...
Lost Civilizations: Greece (1995)
"A Moment of Excellence" - Journey Back to classical Greece....to the world's first democracy, led b...
National Geographic: Egypt - Secrets of the Pharaohs (1997)
Who built the pyramids? What were the secrets of mummification? Which treasures were selected for th...
Empires: Egypt's Golden Empire (2003)
'Egypt's Golden Empire' presents the most extraordinary period in Egyptian history. In 1560 BC, when...
Egyptian Secrets of the Afterlife (2008)
To the ancient Egyptians, life after death was a high stakes underworld journey fraught with terrify...
Decisive Battles of the Ancient World (2006)
In a groundbreaking release, The History Chanel presents the 13 defining points of ancient warfare-m...