Quest for Ancient Egypt Pioneers of Egyptology 1of3 Adventurers

Quest for Ancient Egypt: Pioneers of Egyptology

History Documentary hosted by Mark Donnely, published by EMS Productions in 2000 - English narration





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Egypt has forever been a captivating source of mystery and legend. But within her past lies a story seldom told. The QUEST FOR ANCIENT EGYPT is a graphic account of the men who sought to unravel the secrets of mankind's first great civilization.
It was the first great civilization the Europeans began to explore. However, after two centuries it still remains a 6,000 years old mystery, and we do not know all the answers.

Written by Daniel Diehl ; Directed by Mark Verkerk, Xavier Simon ; Produced by Ton Okkerse

Series Produced by EMS Productions,Tesauro and CineTeve


1) Adventurers and Thieves
In the first episode we meet Baron Dominique Vivant Denon, founder of the Museum of the Louvre and traveler, who came to Egypt with the army of Napoleon (1798) and first described scientifically the Giza Necropolis, Jean-Francois Champollion, who devoted his life to decipher the enigmatic hieroglyphs, Giovanni Battista Belzoni - master in smuggling Egyptian monuments to European museums, the German Karl Lepsius, who first created the systematic study of hundreds of monuments, located on the desert areas of Egypt.


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Video Codec: XviD ISO MPEG-4
Video Bitrate: 2309 kbps
Video Resolution: 720x544
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.324:1
Frames Per Second: 25.000
Audio Codec: 0x2000 (Dolby AC3) AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: english
RunTime Per Part: 49:49.000
Number Of Parts: 3
Part Size: 894 MB
Ripped by: DocFreak08

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Source:

http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Quest_for_Ancient_Egypt:_Pioneers_of_Egyptology