EMS Productions - Quest for Ancient Egypt Pioneers of Egyptology (2000) Part 1 Adventurers and Thieves

Egypt has forever been a captivating source of mystery and legend. But within her past lies a story seldom told. The QUEST FOR ANCIENT EGYPT is a graphic account of the men who sought to unravel the secrets of mankind's first great civilization. It was the first great civilization the Europeans began to explore. However, after two centuries it still remains a 6,000 years old mystery, and we do not know all the answers.

Part 1: Adventurers and Thieves

In the first episode we meet Baron Dominique Vivant Denon, founder of the Museum of the Louvre and traveler, who came to Egypt with the army of Napoleon (1798) and first described scientifically the Giza Necropolis, Jean-Francois Champollion, who devoted his life to decipher the enigmatic hieroglyphs, Giovanni Battista Belzoni - master in smuggling Egyptian monuments to European museums, the German Karl Lepsius, who first created the systematic study of hundreds of monuments, located on the desert areas of Egypt.

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