Product Details

• Actors: Andrew Sachs, Stuart Graham, Julian Wadham, Caroline Langrishe, Alexandra Weaver
• Producers: Al Burgess
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: BBC Worldwide
• DVD Release Date: May 23, 2006
• Run Time: 360 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000EGEJJI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #80,583 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Egypt: Rediscovering a Lost World" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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EGYPT - DVD Movie

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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highest Rating, Exciting, Fact Based Thrilling Adventures, July 29, 2006

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William Haugen (Dallas, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Egypt: Rediscovering a Lost World (DVD)

If you are looking around for a DVD about Ancient Egypt I would recommend this one over all others. I have not seen all the DVDs covering Ancient Egypt but I have seen several and this one is at an entirely higher level. This DVD covers the stories of three of the most exciting life adventures really of all time; Howard Carter, discoverer of Tutankhamun's tomb, Giovanni Belzoni, discoverer of the hidden entrance to Ramesses temple at Abu Simbel and Pharaoh Seti I's tomb and Jean-Francois Champollion who solved the Ancient Egyptian language of the hieroglyphs that had been lost for almost two thousand years. These are extraordinary adventures, life consuming and life changing - and history changing as well as Champollion learned to read the hieroglyphs. This is the best DVD I have seen covering ancient Egypt, the best telling of Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankamun's tomb and the only stories I have seen telling the extraordinary discoveries of Giovanni Belzoni and Jean-Francois Champollion who is considered the founding father of Egyptology. During the telling of Giovanni Belzoni's story there is also a lot of flash back to the time of Ramesses as many of Belzoni's discoveries related to Ramesses. This is an extraordinary DVD with over six hours of fact based adventures and really value priced for what you get. Special feature included on the Nile River with total run time listed at 360 minutes. Highest rating.

27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Beware - 60 minutes cut from U.K. version, May 14, 2006

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larry_darrell "larry_darrell" (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Egypt: Rediscovering a Lost World (DVD)

I have not seen this yet. It gets excellent reviews on Amazon.co.uk.

I will be buying it from Amazon.co.uk. The U.K. version is described there as lasting 360 minutes. The U.S. version is described here as lasting 300 minutes.

American studios do this kind of thing to DVDs quite often. See, e.g., "Vietnam, A Television History," in which two out of the thirteen original PBS episodes were quietly excluded from the DVD, and other episodes were edited down from the originals. The studios often fill up the saved time on the DVDs with advertisements. It tells us a lot about what the studios think about their U.S. viewers.

As you probably know, you will need a mutli-region DVD player to watch a DVD purchased from the U.K.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars History never looked so good, May 25, 2006

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Gregory Taylor "Greg T" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Egypt: Rediscovering a Lost World (DVD)

This is a truly great DVD set.

"Don't know much about history", as the song goes, but a friend back in the UK said this was a cool way to find out more about the Egyptian variety. I've just finished watching and I've got to say that they're right. This is entertaining, involving and I learned a whole lot about a fascinating period. I never knew that Egypt was pretty well forgotten and unvisited by Europeans for hundreds of years. I never knew that even the Egyptians didn't know how to read hieroglyphs when the last priests of Ancient Egypt died and it took a Frenchman to show them how. I never knew that in the early 1800s the Egyptians themselves were dismantling the ancient monuments and using the stones for factories. The visiting Europeans (like Napoleon) were as bad - with a very thin line between preservation and outright theft. Most of the stuff in today's great Egyptian collections in Italy, Paris and the British Museum in London (including the famous Rosetta Stone) was plundered.

And it's not just the history that's so good - this is a well written, well acted and beautifully directed mixture of facts and drama. If you want to know more about Egypt and find out about three of the characters who helped rediscover the ancient civilisation and bring it back to life I can highly recommend this DVD set.