Comes with 4 Transcript Guidebooks The History of Ancient Egypt • By: Bob Brier, The Great Courses • Narrated by: Bob Brier • Series: The Great Courses: Ancient History • Length: 24 hrs and 25 mins • Categories: History Ancient Egyptian civilization is so grand our minds sometimes have difficulty adjusting to it. It lasted 3,000 years, longer than any other on the planet. Its Great Pyramid of Cheops was the tallest building in the world until well into the 19th century and remains the only Ancient Wonder still standing. And it was the most technologically advanced of the ancient civilizations, with the medical knowledge that made Egyptian physicians the most famous in the world. Yet even after deciphering its hieroglyphs, and marveling at its scarabs, mummies, obelisks, and sphinxes, Egyptian civilization remains one of history’s most mysterious, as “other” as it is extraordinary. This chronological survey presents the complete history of ancient Egypt’s three great Kingdoms: the Old Kingdom, when the pyramids were built and Egypt became a nation under the supreme rule of the pharaoh and the rules of Egyptian art were established; the Middle Kingdom, when Egypt was a nation fighting to restore its greatness; and the New Kingdom, when all the names we know today-Hatshepsut, Tutankhamen, Ramses the Great, Cleopatra, and others-first appeared. Professor Brier’s 48 lectures glisten with the kind of vivid anecdotes and human glimpses that make this ancient world breathe again. “The fun of history is in the details,” he notes. “Knowing that Ramses the Great was crippled by arthritis for the last decade of his long life makes us more sympathetic to the boastful monarch who fathered more than 100 children. If we understand what it was like to be a miner sent to the turquoise mines in the Sinai mountains in the summer, we will feel a kinship with our long-dead counterparts.” About Bob Brier, Ph.D. Dr. Bob Brier is an Egyptologist and Senior Research Fellow at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. He earned his bachelors degree from Hunter College and Ph.D. in Philosophy from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Brier has twice been selected as a Fulbright Scholar and has received Long Island Universitys David Newton Award for Teaching Excellence in recognition of his achievements as a lecturer. He has served as Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities Egyptology Today program. In 1994, Dr. Brier became the first person in 2,000 years to mummify a human cadaver in the ancient Egyptian style. This research was the subject of a National Geographic television special, Mr. Mummy. Dr. Brier is also the host of The Learning Channels series The Great Egyptians. Professor Brier is the author of Ancient Egyptian Magic (1980), Egyptian Mummies (1994), Encyclopedia of Mummies (1998), The Murder of Tutankhamen: A True Story (1998), Daily Life in Ancient Egypt (1999), and numerous scholarly articles. Details Title The history of ancient Egypt Responsibility Bob Brier. Author Brier, Bob. Teaching Company. Subjects Egypt -- History -- To 640 A.D Egypt -- Civilization -- To 332 B.C Published Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c1999. Physical Description 8 videodiscs (ca. 1440 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 4 course guidebooks (22 cm.) + 4 transcript/guidebooks (22 cm.) video file DVD video Contents Pt. 1. Lecture 1. Introduction ; Lecture 2. Prehistoric Egypt ; Lecture 3. Ancient Egyptian thought ; Lecture 4. Napoleon and the beginnings of Egyptology ; Lecture 5. The Rosetta Stone, and much more ; Lecture 6. The first nation in history ; Lecture 7. The rise of the Old Kingdom ; Lecture 8. Sneferu, the pyramid builder ; Lecture 9. The Great Pyramid of Giza ; Lecture 10. The end of the Old Kingdom ; Lecture 11. The First Intermediate Period ; Lecture 12. The Middle Kingdom, Dynasty XI -- Pt. 2. Lecture 13. The Middle Kingdom, Dynasty XII ; Lecture 14. The Second Intermediate Period ; Lecture 15. Joseph in Egypt ; Lecture 16. The beginning of the New Kingdom, the fabulous XVIIIth Dynasty ; Lecture 17. Queen Hatshepsut ; Lecture 18. Obelisks ; Lecture 19. Tuthmosis III, King at last ; Lecture 20. The fabulous XVIIIth Dynasty rolls on ; Lecture 21. Akhenaten the heretic pharaoh ; Lecture 22. The discovery of Tutankhamens tomb ; Lecture 23. The murder of Tutankhamen, a theory ; Lecture 24. Medicine, the necessary art -- Pt. 3. Lecture 25. The end of Dynasty XVIII ; Lecture 26. Mummification, how we know what we know ; Lecture 27. What mummies tell us ; Lecture 28. Making a modern mummy ; Lecture 29. Dynasty XIX begins ; Lecture 30. Ramses the Great, the early years ; Lecture 31. Ramses the Great, the later years ; Lecture 32. The exodus, did it happen ; Lecture 33. The decline of Dynasty XIX ; Lecture 34. Dynasty XX, the decline continues ; Lecture 35. Ancient Egyptian magic ; Lecture 36. Dynasty XXI, Egypt divided -- Pt. 4. Lecture 37. Dynasty XXII, Egypt united ; Lecture 38. Dynasty XXV, the Nubians have their day ; Lecture 39. Dynasty XXVI, the Saite period ; Lecture 40. Dynasty XXVII, the Persians ; Lecture 41. Dynasties XXVIII to XXXI, the beginning of the end ; Lecture 42. Alexander the Great ; Lecture 43. The first Ptolemies ; Lecture 44. The middle Ptolemies, the decline ; Lecture 45. Animal mummies ; Lecture 46. Cleopatras family ; Lecture 47. Cleopatra, the last Ptolemy ; Lecture 48. The grand finale. Summary A survey of the 3,000 years of Egyptian history from prehistoric times to the death of Cleopatra. Casts Lecturer, Bob Brier, City College of New York. Notes Course Number 350: 48 lectures (30 minutes/lecture). DVD. Series Great courses (DVD) Language English Identifier ISBN : 9791565855747 ISBN : 9791565856225 (transcript) PUBNUM : 350
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