Posts Tagged ‘Egypt’
Egypt’s Golden Empire
Over 3,500 years ago, Rome was no more than a soggy marsh and the Acropolis was just an empty rock, but Egypt was on the brink of its greatest age – the New Kingdom. There was an explosion of creativity, wealth and power in Egypt that would make it the envy of the world. After [...]
A Nation In Waiting: The Story of Egyptian Dictator Hosni Mubarak
Al-Jazeera tells the story of the rise of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. This film was made before the recent turmoil in Egypt.
Legacy: The Origins of Civilization
We humans have been on the Earth for more than a million years, but civilization – life in cities – has come about only in the last 5,000. Through history civilizations have rose and fell, carved out of nature, dependent on nature, in the end – nature took them back. But in the past few [...]
Riddle of the Sphinx
At 57m long, 6m wide and 20m high, the Great Sphinx at Giza is the largest single-stone sculpture in the world. But who built it? Dr Vassil Dobrev, from the French Institute in Cairo, is on the verge of cracking the riddle of the Sphinx! In Ancient Egyptian mythology, a sphinx is a zoomorphic figure, [...]








