Egypt - Season 1 - Episode 5 - The Mystery of the Rosetta Stone
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Watch Series: Egypt Released in (2005) - Season 1 - Episode 5 ,airing date 2005-11-27 produced by UK, The TV Series categorized in Documentary, Drama, and content rating TV-G with duration 60 min broadcasted as these networks BBC One, Streamed at Putlocker & directed by Jonathan Rich, Ferdinand Fairfax. This is the story of Jean-François Champollion, the brilliant linguist, genius and one of the first true Egyptologists.
The programme begins in Egypt in 1798, when the country had been virtually closed to Europeans for centuries and its ancient culture lost and forgotten for over a thousand years.
Napoleon has with him scholars, including antiquarians and linguists, whose job it is to unravel the mysteries of ancient Egypt.
But they were able to achieve little more than to paint its beautiful ruined monuments and wonder what it all meant, for Egypt's secrets were locked in the strange ancient writings, the hieroglyphs.
Meanwhile, Napoleon's soldiers have unearthed an extraordinary object that offers a crucial clue. The Rosetta Stone has written on it a proclamation by Pharaoh Ptolemy V, in three different texts, Greek, and the common writing of the time, the sacred script of the hieroglyphs.
However, before a translation can begin, the British defeat Napoleon and The Rosetta Stone is taken as a spoil of war to the British Museum.
The French are left only with copies…
Back in Europe, the Stone proves impossible to decipher, and the greatest minds in the continent give up. Authorities on either side of the Channel search for a genius. Anglo–French rivalry intensifies when the two geniuses recruited for the task begin work.
Englishman Thomas Young, a great scientist with a razor-sharp analytical mind, and a brilliant linguist, the young Frenchman Jean-François Champollion, start the race to crack the hieroglyphics.
Young takes a typically methodical approach, essentially using mathematics - comparing the scripts to analyse how often certain words or hieroglyphs appear.
He makes a number of breakthroughs, including working out how to read the name of the Pharaoh Ptolemy.
Young always believes that the ancient hieroglyphs are really just symbols (like road signs) and do not make sounds in the same way as words do – to him, The Ros
Genre:
Documentary,
Drama
Actor:
Matthew Kelly,
Lynsey Baxter,
Andrew Sachs,
Julian Wadham,
Caroline Langrishe,
Alexandra Weaver,
Elliot Cowan,
Laurence Fox,
Stuart Graham,
Valentine Pelka
Guest Stars:
Elliot Cowan
Creators:
Jonathan Rich,
Ferdinand Fairfax
Writers:
Ferdinand Fairfax,
Jonanthan Rich,
Tony Mulholland
Country:
UK
Languages:
en,
English,
Episode: 5
Runtime:
60
Date Modified: 2018-03-13 01:28:34
Air Date: 2005-11-27
Year Released: 2005
Rating:
7.444 out of
10
9
Content Rating:
TV-G
Views: 110
Quality: HD
Networks:
Egypt - How A Lost Civilisation Was Discovered,
Egito,
Mythos Ägypten,
Egyptin löytäjät,
Discovering Ancient Egypt,
Aigyptos: Oi megaloi exerevnites anakalyptoun ton hameno kosmo,
Egyiptom,
Egipt,
egypt,
archaeologist,
egyptology,
excavation,
historical reenactment,
reenactment,
history,
tv mini series,
title spoken by character,
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