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Series Premiere

Quest for Ancient Egypt: Season 1

1x01 Adventurers and Thieves

  • 2000-01-01T05:00:00Z on History
  • 45m
  • United States
  • Documentary
In the first episode we meet Baron Dominique Vivant Denon, founder of the Museum of the Louvre and traveler, who came to Egypt with the army of Napoleon (1798) and first described scientifically the Giza Necropolis, Jean-Francois Champollion, who devoted his life to decipher the enigmatic hieroglyphs, Giovanni Battista Belzoni - master in smuggling Egyptian monuments to European museums, the German Karl Lepsius, who first created the systematic study of hundreds of monuments, located on the desert areas of Egypt.
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