Great courses (DVD). Travel

Course number 80020

disc 1. Exploring the gift of the Nile ; The major museums of Cairo ; How to build a pyramid ; The Great Pyramid: the last ancient wonder ; The Great Sphinx and the Giza Plateau ; The Step Pyramid: Djoser's stairway to heaven -- disc 2. The capital at Memphis and the Saqqara tombs ; Old, new and late Saqqara ; Saqqara's famous fifth-dynasty tombs ; King Sneferu and the first true pyramid ; Power and revolution: Beni Hasan and Amarna ; Akhenaten's city at Anarna and Hermopolis -- disc 3. Abydos: the religious center of Osiris ; The Temple of Hathor at Dendera ; The Temple of Amun-Re at Karnak ; Luxor Temple and the Opet festival ; Royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings ; Valley of the Queens and workman's village -- disc 4. The Colossi of Memnon and Hatshepsut's Temple ; Theban Tombs: the Necropolis of Nobles ; Ptolemaic Temples of Edfu and Kom Ombo ; The ancient Egyptian frontier: Aswan ; The temples at Philae and Abu Simbel ; Alexandria and the lost city of Tanis

Lecturer: Melinda Hartwig, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University

DVD

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