The Greatest Pharaohs

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The Greatest Pharaohs
A&E Television Networks
Release date
  • July 11, 1997 (1997-07-11)
Running time
200 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Greatest Pharaohs is a 1997 American

A&E and narrated by Frank Langella with commentary by experts in the field.[1][2] It is 200 minutes long and split into four parts, with each part explaining the lives of four Egyptian pharaohs.[2]

In education

The film uses interviews of

Oriental Institute of Chicago,[5] University of Pennsylvania,[6] and University of California, Berkeley,[7] as well as smaller colleges such as Blue Ridge Community College.[8] It is available in public libraries across the United States,[1][9][10][11] and in archives such as La Bibliographie nationale française.[12]

4-part series

The documentary series The Greatest Pharaohs chronicles the lives of the men and women who built and maintained the Egyptian dynasties and the resources and power of ancient Egypt. Footage is included of the recently opened pyramid complex of the Pharaoh Sneferu and the rarely seen ancient burial ground of Abydos.[13]

Part 1

Follows the birth of Egyptian civilization and the origins of the pharaohs and their legacy of the pyramids. It begins with the story of how the first pharaoh, the warrior Narmer, united Upper and Lower Egypt and began the first dynasty. Covers Narmer, Hor-Aha, Sneferu, and Khafre.[14]

Part 2

By 2180 BCE, almost 1,000 years after the first pharaoh, the Egyptians had made advances in science, art, and technology and had built what was arguably the most advanced culture at that time in civilized history. However, the

Pepi II, Mentuhotep II, and Ahmose I.[15]

Part 3

By 1353 BCE, Egypt was again stable, with much of the prosperity of the

Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten), Tutankhamun, Ay, and Seti I.[16]

Part 4

Considered by historians to be the greatest era of the

Cleopatra VII.[17]

Video release

It was released by

A&E Home Video and distributed in the U.S. by New Video Group (1997).[2]

Additional sources

References

  1. ^ a b [1] Marmot Library Network, video listings, accessed 01-18-2009
  2. ^ a b c d e [2] University of Vermont, CAMPUS USE INSTRUCTIONAL: The Greatest Pharaohs, accessed 01-18-2009
  3. A&E
    Classroom, accessed 01-18-2009
  4. ^ "AV #88547 - Video Cassette - the Greatest Pharaohs: Volume 2. Twilight for the Fourth Dynasty". Archived from the original on 1999-10-11. Retrieved 2009-01-19. San Francisco State University video library catalog, accessed 01-18-2009
  5. Oriental Institute of Chicago
    , discussion of syllabus for January 4 class, accessed 01-18-2009
  6. ^ [5] University of Pennsylvania, videos for Anthropology and Archaeology, accessed 01-18-2009
  7. ^ [6] University of California, Berkeley, Area Studies — Videos in the Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley Library, accessed 01-18-2009
  8. ^ "BRCC Video Listing course video listings". Archived from the original on October 14, 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
  9. ^ [7] Corvalis-Benton County Public Library, video listings, accesses 01-18-2009
  10. ^ [8] Wright Public Library, accessed 01-18-2009
  11. ^ [9] Archived 2012-08-05 at archive.today Nid-Hudson Library System, accessed 01-19-2009
  12. ^ "Bibliographie nationale française Audiovisuel - Cumulatif 2006 - Images animées : Philosophie, histoire, sciences de l'homme". Archived from the original on 2009-07-12. Retrieved 2009-01-19. La Bibliographie nationale française (France) (Google translation, accessed 01-19-2009
  13. ^ aetv.com, overview of The Greatest Pharaohs, accessed 01-18-2009
  14. ^ aetv.com Archived 2008-07-20 at the Wayback Machine, Part 1 of The Greatest Pharaohs, accessed 01-18-2009
  15. ^ aetv.com Archived 2008-07-20 at the Wayback Machine, Part 2 of The Greatest Pharaohs, accessed 01-18-2009
  16. ^ aetv.com Archived 2008-07-19 at the Wayback Machine, Part 3 of The Greatest Pharaohs, accessed 01-18-2009
  17. ^ aetv.com Archived 2008-07-20 at the Wayback Machine, Part 4 of The Greatest Pharaohs, accessed 01-18-2009
  18. ^ [10] The Advocate (July 6, 1997), "Tidbits in A&E's "Pharaohs" worth the effort

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