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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Very informative intoduction! |
| I rated this DVD with 4 stars because it started the story of the ancient Egyptians civilization from Chapter 2; Chapter one is the old kingdom of ancient Egypt. The missing chapter is a very rich era of Egypt old civilization since it covers the origin of the religion, the idea of death in ancient Egypt civilization, the idea of resurrection, the idea of building the pyramids (the king tomb), the explanation of the title "pharaoh" which means " the owner of the big house (i.e the big house refers to Egypt)"...etc. There are a lot of weak conclusions in this documentary, lack of solid evidences; for example, the movie mentioned that by the end of pharaohs' era the Egyptians themselves started to steal the tombs and the gold of their dead pharaohs!! This is a false claim since most of the ancient Egyptians' treasures are displayed in all well-known world museums!!_The treasures of ancient Egyptians had been stolen more likely in the recent history during/after discovering the tombs!
Moreover, I find the explanation of the pharaoh Akhenaten's religious revolution is really so superficial! According to the documentary movie, Amenhopet IV (Akhenaten) was worshiping Aton(translated according to the movie as "Sun god"; Sun god of ancient Egyptian civilization is known as "Ra or Re" pronounced as Raah" not "aton"!...Akhenaten in his scriptures, the great hymn, mentioned that God is so obvious like the aton "the sun disk" ; thus, Akhenaton did not worship the sun itself but, he used "aton" as a metaphor to describe God!...As the movie showed clearly, the ancient Egyptians priests did their best to defame Akhenaton and his religion. It seems that the priests of Thebes were so strong since Akhenaten built a new city called Akhetaten (located at Tel El-Amarna) and left the religious capital of ancient Egypt, Thebes(Located at upper Egypt). The idea of leaving Thebes to a new city "Akhetaten" is nearly very close to the idea Moses exodus!! In fact, Egyptians knew God before the born of Abraham (PBUH); the myth of Isis and Osoris (Enoch (Iddris) (PBUH) had been changed to Osoris) is an obvious evidence. Abraham, PBUH, came to Egypt and married Hajjar, then Joseph (PBUH) came to Egypt and stayed in Egypt for long time. After that Moses was born in Egypt and stayed there also for long time until the exodus (Since the exact time of exodus is not precisely known thus, it could be after or before Akhenaten's era). Those prophets, for sure, improved the idea of worshiping one God among ancient Egyptians and, in turn, could affect Akhenetan ideology and made him refuse the polytheism of ancient Egypt civilization and led to the conflicts among Akhenaten and the ancient Egyptian priests _given that Akhenaten himself was not a messenger/prophet of God!....The title of this DVD could explain why this movie has started with chapter 2(although this made the STORY incomplete)...Nevertheless, I find this DVD is so interesting since you will be familiar with major ancient Egypt history(the middle and the new ancient Egypt kingdoms). The majority of people understand title pharaoh (usually a man's title) as analogous to Tyrant/oppressor, this DVD provided clear historical evidences that Pharaoh could a diplomat, religious figure, statesman,..etc and not necessarily to be a man (the story of Hatshipsout mentioned as an example of Egyptian woman pharaoh). Anybody who is not familiar with the ancient Egyptian civilization, for sure, will enjoy watching this DVD especially the ancient Egyptians temples and traditions. I do recommend Egypt: the land of gods(History channel) along with this DVD. |
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