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Empire of death.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978.
- Burial.
- Nubia--Antiquities.
- Nubia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (50 min.)
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 1999.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- In 1931, at Ballana and Qustul, a young Egyptologist, Walter Emery, investigated the bizarre and gruesome royal tombs of a mysterious culture known to archaeologists as the 'X-Group'. These mysterious mounds, dating from the 6th-11th Centuries AD, appeared to confirm tantalising reports by Arab explorers who traversed Ancient Nubia during the medieval period, suggesting the presence of mass sacrifice/mass suicide burials. But what were the origins of this strange 'death-cult' and what light may this shed on the birth of civilisation in ancient Black Africa?
- Participant:
- Produced by Richard Denton; directed by Peter Minns.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Nov. 2, 2010).
- Previously published as DVD.
- OCLC:
- 689524509
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