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UNIT 9: EARLY CIVILIZATIONS



UNIT 9: EARLY CIVILIZATIONS



VIDEOS ABOUT MESOPOTAMIA AND EGYPT


Here you can find useful videos and links to pages related to this interesting unit.
I hope you enjoy them and also to learn a lot!

MESOPOTAMIA

This is a video showing the main stages of the Mesopotamian civilisation.





In it John  Green presents Mesopotamia, and the early civilizations that arose around the Fertile Crescent. Topics covered include the birth of territorial kingdoms, empires, Neo-Assyrian torture tactics, sacred marriages, ancient labor practices, the world's first law code, and the great failed romance of John's undergrad years.






Other documentary about this great civilisation.


FROM NOMADS TO FARMERS




WRITTEN LANGUAGE IN MESOPOTAMIA

this video is courtesy of Discovery Education



HAMMURABI´S CODE (MESOPOTAMIA)

This is a video in which you will find out what is Hammurabi´s code and why we consider it so important. They are very simple but also very clear.



 Do you think that our systems of laws are similar to them? How can you make the difference?



A "paper slide" summary of the major facts about Hammurabi's Code




STANDARD OF UR FROM THE ROYAL TOMBS OF UR


Here you have a video explaining the Standar of Ur



WEBS ON MESOPOTAMIAN ART

Here you have two links to pages about Mesopotamian art




LINKS TO EXPLORE MESOPOTAMIA


Follow this link and explore Mesopotamia. Don´t forget to play the games!!!!

http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/menu.html

(The British Museum)



WRITING IN MESOPOATAMIA

The oldest written language in the world is probably ancient Sumerian. Th eoldest inscription dates back about 3300 BC. The first written signs were pictograms (picture signs). These were gradually simplified and developed into cuneiform scrip.

You can click on the links and enjoy these ineteresting information from the British Museum. The first is  about the development of writing . The second one relates to the world of a scribe.


CUNEIFORM WRITING. CREATE YOUR OWN MESSAGE



The cuneiform writing was invented in Mesopotamia.Writing was used to organize the state.
Now you can create your own code!! Good luck!!






EGYPT



And here a first approach to Egytpian civilisation, I will continue adding some more interesting videos about momification and life after death...
Enjoy them all!!




This is another interesting video about Ancient Egypt presented by  John Green, the creative teacher that usually introduces other points of view ... I am sure you are going to enjoy it, don´t forget to watch it even after have finished the unit...




ROSETTA STONE

This is a fascinating story bout the way the hieroglyphs were first translated.
In this series of videos you are going to discover the mistery of the Rosetta Stone, one of the more fascinating misteries in Egytian history.I am sure you are going to enjoy them. You can start by the first one and if you like it -only in that case...- you can continue watching the others.

























EGYPT: REDISCOVERING A LOST WORLD (FILM)

This is a very famous film about the first archaeological excavations in Egypt. Now, it is a classical film in several countries. I hope you enjoy it. In Spain the film was titled "Los misterios de Egipto; buscando a Tutankhamon".






EGYPT: ENGINEERING AN EMPIRE (DOCUMENTARY)

Engineering an Empire is a program on The History Channel that explores the engineering and/or architectural feats that were characteristic of some of the greatest societies on this planet. This chapter is about Ancient Egypt.





THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD (HISTORY CHANNEL)



Dare to go on a trip through the underworld to the Egyptian afterlife and the voyage of the Book of the Dead in this marvellously depicted programme. E. A. Wallis Budge's wonderful find in Egypt and his famous book gives us an insight into how the Egyptians charted the journey after death to the afterlife. This programme gives us a graphic and often scary insight into the trials and tribulations of the soul of the deceased. 
Aired on the History Channel by A&E Entertainments in 2006 and produced by Morningstar Entertainment.









SPHINX: MYSTERY IN STONE (DISCOVERY CHANNEL)


The Sphinx is one of the oldest monuments in the world. Standing sixty feet high and 225feet long, its origins are a complete mystery. Just who built it and why was it built? Is Robert Bauval's theory of a much older Sphinx correct?
Aired on Discovery Channel in 2003 in association with Arte and ZDF Enterprises and produced by Digital Drama Filmproduktion.




EGYPTIAN TEMPLES 


EL TEMPLO DE KARNAK , EN LUXOR  (in Spanish)

Here, a documentary about the The Karnak Temple Complex, commonly known as Karnak , comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, chapels, pylons, and other buildings. Building at the complex began during the reign of Senusret I in the Middle Kingdom and continued into the Ptolemaic period, although most of the extant buildings date from the New Kingdom. The area around Karnak was the ancient Egyptian Ipet-isut ("The Most Selected of Places") and the main place of worship of the eighteenth dynasty Theban Triad with the god Amun as its head. It is part of the monumental city of Thebes


MOVING TEMPLE OF RAMESSES II 

The temple at Abu Simbel, which Ramses II (the Egyptian Pharaoh who ruled Egypt for 66 years from 1270 to 1213 BC) ordered built near the border of Nubia and Upper Egypt, was dedicated to two sun gods, Amun-Re and Re-Horakhte. Standing 100 feet (33 meters) tall, the temple was carved into an already-standing sandstone mountain on the banks of the Nile. Four colossal statues of Ramses, each 66 feet (22 meters) high, guard the entrance to the temple. Rising to the pharaoh's knees are smaller statues of family members: his mother; favorite wife, Nefertari; and son, Prince Amonherkhepshef. Inside the temple, three connected halls extend 185 feet (56 meters) into the mountain. Images of the king's life and many achievements adorn the walls. Rock-cut temples may have been especially significant in ancient Egypt because the bulge in the otherwise flat land may have signified the location where the gods emerged from the Earth, says Williams.




EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS


INSIDE OF THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZA (NATIONL GEOGRAPHIC)


Here you will find some videos about the pyramids an their construction. Two of them are in Spanish 











VIRTUAL TOUR THROUGH THE GREAT PYRAMID




BUILDING THE GREAT PYRAMID (BBC)


Here you have a series of six videos in which the construcion of pyramids in the Ancient Egypt is explained. I think they are also interesting to understand the way of life of the ancient Egyptians.















EGYPT: BEYOND THE PYRAMIDS  (HISTORY CHANNEL)


The four programs from the History Channel in Egypt: Beyond the Pyramids showcase current archaeological work that is changing how historians think about life in ancient Egypt. Some of the greatest temples and tombs of Egypt are visited, and authorities explain the significance of particular aspects of their construction. Efforts to restore temples that had been lost under centuries of sand are shown, and one episode focuses on the discovery of a massive complex of tombs in the Valley of the Kings, which only began to be fully explored in the mid-1990s. The host of these programs, British actor Peter Woodward, presents the material skillfully, keeping the interviews with scholars informative as well as entertaining. An episode focusing on the daily life of ancient Egyptians even features Woodward putting on the sort of makeup that ordinary Egyptians are believed to have worn as both protection from the sun and a fashion statement. Visits to archaeological digs, including a recently discovered remote site that inexplicably contains hundreds of mummies, demonstrate how what we have known about Egypt may only be a fraction of what is still left to be discovered. These programs are intelligent and the beautiful photography makes them that much more enjoyable.











JOURNEY THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS (DISCOVERY CHANNEL)



New CGI gives us a new and complete look at the tombs in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. This programme looks at the tomb of Seti I, from its complex construction 
and the problem of getting a ten tonne sarcophagus in place, to later tomb robbers whose punishment was death if they were ever caught. 
Aired on Discovery Channel in 2005 and produced by Atlantic Productions.




SOME VIDEOS ABOUT GREAT RULERS OF EGYPT 


HATSHEPSUT: THE QUEEN WHO WOULD BE KING 
(DISCOVERY CHANNEL: THE GREAT EGYIPTIANS)

When Champollion found cartouches that showed the name of a female but where the images showed a king he could never work it out. A hundred years later Egyptologists realised that Hatshepsut was not a king, but a queen. And so the entire ideas of ancient Egypt needed to be rewritten - women could be just as powerful as men. Building some of the biggest obelisks and finest temples in Egypt, Hatshepsut would prove to be a formidable Pharaoh, but how did she become pharaoh of Egypt?
Aired on Discovery Channel in 1999 and produced by Café Productions Ltd.



AKHENATEN

Here you have two videos about the rebel pharaoh, the heretic king.

AKHENATEN AND NEFERTITI: THE ROYAL GODS OF EGYPT


Voiced by one of the best narrators ever - actor Samuel West - this programme looks at the story of the 'rebel' pharaoh, Akhenaton, and his stunningly beautiful queen, Nefertiti. Akhenaton's daring attempt to shift the entire civilisation to a new location, El-Amarna, is one of the boldest moves in history, but even more compelling is his change in religious thinking. Taking away the pagan gods of Egypt and replacing them with just one God, Akhenaton was the first person in human history to bring forth the idea of monotheism. Perhaps, if the Egyptians didn't revert back to their pagan gods and remove all traces of Akhenaton, they could have continued for much longer, for it was more than a thousand years later that the idea of monotheism finally flourished over the world... From the BBC's Timewatch series and aired in 2002.



AKHENATEN: THE REBEL PHARAOH

A documentary on the strange life of Akhenaten

















QUEEN NEFERTITI: GREATEST MYSTERY OF ANCIENT EGYPT

LOVED BY A KING. HATED BY AN EMPIRE. ERASED FROM HISTORY. SHE COULD BE THE BIGGEST FIND SINCE KING TUT. Has the famed Egyptian beauty, Queen Nefertiti, been found in a secret chamber deep in the Valley of the Kings? A Discovery Channel Quest expedition, led by Dr. Joann Fletcher and a team of internationally renown scientists from the University of York Mummy research Team, hopes to find out. If they're right, the finding will be one of the greatest archaeological discoveries since Nefertiti's stepson - King Tutankhamen - was discovered in 1922. "Great Royal Wife" of the "renegade" pharaoh Akhenaten, Nefertiti was a mother of six who helped lead a religious revolution that changed Egypt and the world forever. Yet after her death, her enemies destroyed all evidence of Nefertiti's life. Now, drawing on 13 years of research, Fletcher and her team bring Nefertiti's turbulent reign to life as never before using cutting-edge computer animations to recreate ancient Egypt's great temples; x-rays to reveal the telltale signs of foul play on her mummy; and forensic graphics to recreate the mummy's face. Have they found the ancient world's greatest beauty?






TUTANKHAMEN (  ANCIENT HISTORY)






RAMESSES II

Ramses II was perhaps the greatest pharaoh to rule ancient Egypt. His reign lasted 67 years--it was one of the longest in Egyptian history. As king of one of the most powerful civilizations in the world--he possessed endless energy and a determination to insure his name and his civilization would stand immortal. He was seemingly a true patron of family life. He had at least half-a-dozen principal wives--the most notable being Nefertari. He has also been credited for having sired over 100 children. Was it Ramses II's hunger for power that fueled his desire to insure one of his brood would eventually succeed him? What motivated Ramses II to commission the grand temples and massive monuments that bear his name? Just how did Ramses II become pharaoh, even though he was not the crown prince? Was Ramses II the Egyptian leader responsible for the exodus or was it one of his many sons? What information will the recent discovery in the Valley of the Kings known as KV-5 reveal? Will the man behind the mystery finally be fully exposed?










Fathering more than a hundred children, reigning for 67 years and living until his late eighties, Ramses truly was the greatest Pharaoh of them all. He built some of the biggest monuments in Egypt, fought in dozens of battles and kept Egyptian power at its height.
Aired on Discovery Channel in 1999 and produced by Café Productions Ltd.





THE BLACK PHARAOHS - NUBIAN PHARAOHS

Less kown is this part of the Egyptian history, when the Nubian Kings ( rulers of a region that today correspond with Sudan) decided the only way to save Egypt from itself was to invade it in the year 730 B.C.
Dr Vivian Davies claims that a recently discovered set of hieroglyphs proves that, in 800 BC, Egypt was under the rule of black Pharaohs from neighbouring Nubia. This film examines the impact of these sensational discoveries.

Historians have long known about Kush, but relegated its importance to a vassal state of Egypt, significant only for its gold reserves. Early excavations in the Kush capital at Kerma suffered from the innate racism of the archaeologists. Fabulous grave goods, discovered in the 20th century, were thought to have belonged to Kush's Egyptian overlords. They didn't consider that a black African culture could have challenged Egypt's supremacy.



The inscription exposed the truth. Although it won battles, Kush eventually lost the war, and for the next 1000 years, Egypt had the upper hand. But the inscription served as a warning prophecy to Egypt that it might pay a high price. The enslaved Kushites would have their revenge. Allowed, and even encouraged, to rebuild their own kingdom along the lines of Egypt, in 747 BC, Kush attacked the Pharaoh's power in a daring land grab.

The Kushite king, Piye, overthrew the yoke, conquered mighty Egypt and established a 100-year rule of black Pharaohs. Even after being ousted from the Egyptian throne, Kushite kings continued to rule an empire as mighty as any, until the arrival of Alexander the Great. For a number of years, British Museum archaeologists have been making find after find in the Upper Nile Valley to substantiate this story - huge lost pyramids, burial chambers of 200 workers, and stores of gold.
















THE ADVENTURES OF PAPYRUS

Here you have the cartoons "The adventures of Papyrus", a young boy who has to save Egypt. Hope you like it !!. All the episodes are in youtube, look for them and discover Egypt. This French series received a limited English DVD release. Enjoy!

EPISODE 1

This is episode 1 of Papyrus, dubbed in English. 


EPISODE 2




EPISODE 3





EPISODE 4




EPISODE 5




EPISODE 6




EPISODE 7





KING TUT STORIES IN ENGLISH

Have a look a the stories of king Tut. They are really nice!!. Hope you like them. Taken from the book "Amazing facts about Ancient Egypt" James Putnam.





ANCIENT EGYPT, THE MAGIC LESSSON.

Why don't you explore Ancient Egypt with a pharaoh? Click on the link.



EGYPTIAN CAROUCHE, CREAE YOUR OWN CARTOUCHE

Follow this link to create your own egiptian cartouche. Good Luck!.




THE MUMMY MAKER (GAME)

Do you want to be a mummy maker?Then follow the link and enjoy the game! From the BBC,



THE PYRAMID BUILDER (GAME)

And what about building a pyramid?. There you have your chance to do it. From the BBC history Channel.




AFTERLIFE IN EGYPT (PRESENTATION)




This presentation is about the aferlie in Egypt and it was taken from Gema Sejas del Piñal 's blog.







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