Decoding Saqqara, The Secret Hieroglyphs of the Pyramids (2020)
• May 1st, 2020 • 0h 52min
Documentary, History
Overview
With Its Myriad Of Mysteries Ancient Egypt Continues To Work Its Spell. The Necropolis Of Saqqara Roughly 30 Kilometers From Cairo Holds One Of Egypt's Most Fascinating Treasures The Pyramid Of Pharaoh Pepi Ii. Few Know Of It As It Is Closed To The Public Yet It Holds The Vastest Collection Of Texts Of All Currently Known Pyramids. For The First Time In 90 Years Teams From The International Archeological Mission In Saqqara Open And Decipher This Wondrous Tomb. How Did The Egyptians Build The Pyramids? Their Walls Are Covered In Hieroglyphs But What Story Do They Tell? How To Crack The Mystery Of Texts That Are Over Four Thousand Years Old? Using Technological Innovations Such As Photogrammetry Endoscopes Hyperspectral Imaging And Ultrahigh Resolution Photography This Documentary Alternates Live Scenes With Staged Interviews To Plunge Us Into Saqqara's History And Offer New Insights Into The Pharaohs' Tombs.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Riddles of the Sphinx
Released on: 2010-01-19
Documentary, History, TV Movie
For over 4000 years, the Sphinx has puzzled all who have laid eyes on it. What is this crouching lio...
Hereje
Released on:
History, Drama
The film chronicles the last 3 years of Akhenaten -called "the heretic pharaoh"- and his wife Queen ...
Pyramid
Released on: 2002-10-28
Documentary, Drama
Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Pyramid is the only one to survive. Many believe that...
The Egyptian
Released on: 1954-08-25
History, Drama
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his frien...
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
Released on: 2017-09-24
Documentary, History, TV Movie
Egypt's Great Pyramid may be humanity's greatest achievement: a skyscraper of stone built without co...
Land of the Pharaohs
Released on: 1955-07-24
Drama, History
A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-ab...
The Ten Commandments
Released on: 1956-10-05
Drama, History
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of...
Valley of the Kings: The Lost Tombs
Released on: 2021-02-28
Documentary
With over 60 tombs, the Valley of the Kings is the most-famous burial ground on Earth. In the bigges...
Cleopatra
Released on: 1963-06-12
Drama, History, Romance
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...
Cleopatra
Released on: 1934-10-05
History, Drama, Romance
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile
Released on: 1961-09-20
Drama, History
Chronicles the rise and fall of the woman who eventually became known as Queen Nefertiti.
Nefertiti: Daughter of the Sun
Released on: 1994-01-01
Drama, History, Romance
Tadushepa grows from a young princess from the Mitanni kingdom to the legendary Queen Nefertiti of E...
National Geographic: Pyramids of Death
Released on: 2005-10-04
Documentary
They are some of the biggest pyramids on the planet, millions of tons of stone and earth towering ab...
Unknown: The Lost Pyramid
Released on: 2023-07-03
Documentary
Egyptian archeologists dig into history, discovering tombs and artifacts over 4,000 years old as the...
Cleopatra: Mother, Mistress, Murderer, Queen
Released on: 2016-04-07
Documentary
Cleopatra, the last Egyptian queen and one of the most legendary women in history. A beautiful seduc...
The Tragedy of Man
Released on: 2011-11-27
Animation, Drama, History
Jankovics's adaptation of the eponymous play is divided into multiple parts, and depicts the creatio...
Serpent of the Nile
Released on: 1953-05-08
History, Adventure
Cleopatra toys with Mark Antony who wants to merge his Rome with her Egypt.
The Mysterious Mummified Dogs of Ancient Egypt
Released on: 2020-01-11
Documentary
This documentary examines the mysterious practice of mummifying animals in ancient Egypt as research...
Legions of the Nile
Released on: 1959-11-27
History, Drama, Adventure
Octavio secretly sent his consul Curridio to Alexandria in a final attempt to reach peace. In the ci...