Eternal Egypt

Egypt is a gift from the Nile Herodotus famous quote who traveled this country around 650 BC is still relevant today Nowadays the majority of Egyptians live on its banks Like the pharaohs they fish and they channel the river water to irrigate their fields This episode of Eternal Egypt introduces to the Egyptians who live on the Nile banks from Rosetta where it flows into the Mediterranean to Abu

The cult of death holds an important place in ancient Egypt Necropolises pyramids mummies and sarcophagi comprise most of the archaeological discoveries on Egyptian soil and are directly related to funerary rites From mummification to the cult of Osiris discover the ancestral rites still present today that linked the Egyptians to death and eternal life

Ancient Egypt gave the world the most extraordinary monuments of all time Although its 3500year history came to an abrupt end with the triumph of Christianity in the 4th century this extraordinary civilization has not disappeared When in the 19th century JeanFrancois Champollion pierced the secret of the hieroglyphs the world understood what it owed to the ancient Egyptians

Traveling through the land of the Pharaohs around 450 BC Herodotus was struck by the contrast of the lush banks of the great river and the aridity of the surrounding desert In this last episode venture into the desert that the Egyptians of the Nile never really managed to control It is still a place of danger and rebellion