Tag: Egypt
Egypt’s Golden Empire
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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...
A Nation In Waiting: The Story of Egyptian Dictator Hosni Mubarak
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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
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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, dep...
Riddle of the Sphinx
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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 th...