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This series was originally broadcast in the UK in the early/mid 1990s. It is superbly constructed, beautifully narrated and is easily the best ever programme in the Egyptology genre. Frayling is incandescent at building the suspense – almost as if he was narrating a whodunnit modern. I have been trying to find a copy for years as my current video was lost. Bright. An absolute must.

Christopher Frayling’s BBC documentary from the early nineties is one of the better pieces of television history on primitive Egypt (second only, in my belief, to John Romer’s 1984 worry ‘Ancient Lives’- when will that one be commercially released? ) . Frayling’s penchant for cultural history works tremedously well here as he surveys both the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb itself and the significance of the discovery in the western cultural developments during the twentieth century. From an in-depth analysis of Howard Carter’s work to interviews with various assorted Californian hippies with mummy fixations, this is a gripping, well-researched and very moving gawk at the whole Tut phenomenon. It is a relief also to picture that unlike many an American edition the series has not been hacked around with inexpert and insensitive editing. Highly recommended.
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