A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
Transcurre el año 1330 antes de Jesucristo. En Tebas, Sinhué el egipcio cuenta su vida. Abandonado al nacer en las aguas del Nilo, es recogido por un matrimonio que lo adopta como hijo. Así, cursa estudios de medicina, profesión de su padre adoptivo y hace amistad con Horemheb, el hijo de un quesero. Durante una cacería de leones, los dos jóvenes salvan la vida del faraón y entran así a su servicio. Sinuhé se convertirá en el cirujano personal del gobernante, pero pronto se verá arrastrado a las intrigas que amenazan al faraón.
A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.
Major Briggs, one stiff upper-lipped Brit, receives a hand-to-head treatment in a North African bar. Impressed, he recruits the most skilled American specialists to help him blow up Rommel's most treasured ammo depot. Perilous desert journey awaits them, especially given an inevitable rendezvous with one immoral priest, a German nurse right beside him.
Under Pharaoh Amemphis III's reign, the most powerful in the kingdom, as vizier Burkis and a fanatic and xenophobic priest, will try to overthrow the Pharaoh. They will even murder the crown prince, Aker. But his twin brother will find a way to foil those fanatical plans.
Un aventurero imprudente y un grupo de exploradores desentierran accidentalmente una antigua maldición egipcia. Ahora, deben luchar contra la resucitada momia del sacerdote Imhotep, que busca recuperar su poder y venganza sobre el mundo moderno.
A study of the ruined Egyptian pyramid of the 4th dynasty pharaoh Djedefre, including evidence from a ten-year excavation which supports new theories about his reign and the pyramid's importance.
The Scorpion King: The King before Pharaohs. Learn more about the king who likely united ancient Egypt, organized the world’s earliest phonetic writing system, and inspired the creation of the pyramids. Mace heads, a stone mounted on a wooden shaft, were an early weapon of war. They were used like a club to strike enemies on the head. The scorpion mace head was too large to have been used as a weapon, and was clearly reserved for ceremonial purposes. Archaeologists believe they have found the tomb of the Scorpion King at the ancient burial site of Abydos. He was buried with 700 wine jars, several of which had come from as far away as ancient Palestine. The Scorpion King may have presided over the birth of phonetic writing earlier than any other civilization in the world—200 years before the first pharaohs.
Professor Bettany Hughes takes viewers on a journey of discovery as she investigates 10 of the greatest and most intriguing Egyptian mummies - and the secrets that lie beneath the bandages. Having remained in their tombs for thousands of years, wrapped, embalmed and buried with treasure, each mummy tells the story of the criminals, priests, children and pharaohs of Ancient Egypt.