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Overview
Release Date:
30 October 2005 (UK) morePlot Keywords:
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The BBC at its best moreCast
(Series Cast [19]) | Andrew Sachs | ... | Narrator (3 episodes, 2005) |
 | Stuart Graham | ... | Howard Carter (2 episodes, 2005) |
| Julian Wadham | ... | Lord Carnarvon (2 episodes, 2005) |
| Lynsey Baxter | ... | Sarah Belzoni (2 episodes, 2005) |
| Fuman Dar | ... | Ramesses II (2 episodes, 2005) |
 | Tania Emery | ... | Rosine Blanc / ... (2 episodes, 2005) |
| Nevan Finegan | ... | James Curtin (2 episodes, 2005) |
| Laurence Fox | ... | Leonard (2 episodes, 2005) |
| Yousseff Hagag Hagag | ... | Hamer The Reiss / ... (2 episodes, 2005) |
| Hamdy Heykal | ... | Henchman (2 episodes, 2005) |
| Matthew Kelly | ... | Giovanni Belzoni (2 episodes, 2005) |
| Caroline Langrishe | ... | Lady Carnarvon (2 episodes, 2005) |
| Alton Letto | ... | Tutankhamun / ... (2 episodes, 2005) |
| Joseph Long | ... | Bernard Drovetti (2 episodes, 2005) |
| Neji Nejah | ... | Ay (2 episodes, 2005) |
| Valentine Pelka | ... | Pierre Lacau (2 episodes, 2005) |
| Robert Portal | ... | Henry Salt (2 episodes, 2005) |
| Badi Uzzaman | ... | Caimakan (2 episodes, 2005) |
 | Alexandra Weaver | ... | Evelyn Carnarvon (2 episodes, 2005) |
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60 min (6 episodes)Country:
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Singapore:PGMOVIEmeter: 
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I was not expecting to enjoy "Egypt" as much as I did - Egyptian history was never my thing. But the series started out well, with the relatively well-known story of Howard Carter and the discovery of King Tutankhamun and then got even better as it went on. If you'd told me that I would have been entranced by two hours of drama on the race in the 1820s to translate hieroglyphs I would have laughed - but that's exactly what the concise and intelligent scripts by Jonathan Rich that ended the series managed to achieve. I don't think there's another broadcaster in the world who would attempt something this bold, a series in which the educational content matches the entertainment value and which doesn't talk down to its audience. This is the BBC at its very best and I was delighted to learn that a 2-DVD set of the series will be out in February 2006. This is a series I will want to watch again, and savour.