Egypt Decoded / by Roel Oostra.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Oostra, Roel., Director, Producer.

Electric Sky (Firm)

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monuments--Egypt.

Monuments.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (53 min.)

Place of Publication:

London, England : electric sky, 2007.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

Summary:

At the dawn of history an entire civilization gathered to build the most magnificent monuments on earth but why and what drove them to it? Challenging the suggestion that 'tombs are for dead pharaohs', author Robert Bauval, Alexandria engineer and renowned expert on ancient Egypt, has contested the world of Egyptology and led it in new directions. This intriguing film reveals the key to ancient Egypt's great pyramids and temples in a magical 'grand unified plan' that was written in the stars. Bauval's investigation in the secrets of ancient kings and priests is a major breakthrough in this line of historical research and shows, using the latest astronomy computer software and the latest archaeological and Egyptological findings, that the whole landscape of ancient Egypt with all its major pyramid sites, sun-temples and religious centres was developed in accordance to an ambitious long-term plan to turn Egypt into a 'Celestial Kingdom' where time would cyclically recur and the cosmic order obeyed. It leads him to a daring proposal about the core of ancient Egypt's being regarding the time it began in what the Egyptians called the 'time of the gods.' This, Bauval proposes will again draw worldwide attention and, without doubt, be hotly debated for years to come.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed March 29, 2016).

OCLC:

898206621