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Each mummy is an encyclopedia: A tooth can tell you when they were sick, a hair, what they ate, an x-ray can tell you how they died and CAT-Scans are what we use for the details. Sometimes they reveal that the embalmers weren't always very careful... But in some degree they've all cheated time, so secrets are what they would whisper... if they could whisper. The well-known author of two excellent popular presentations of current Egyptology, Bob Brier skillfully gives voice to his objects of affection: mummies from Asia, Europe, and South America. Brier also shows us how mummies fascinated people in all times and places and have been incomparable source materials for medical, scientific, and religious history. Brier is certainly the right person to present this show since he has a genuine talent and enthusiasm for palaeopathology--the study of ancient human remains. His own research has culminated in the mummification of a modern human, on view in the series. Brier offers insight on mummy-making in ancient Egypt, ancient Peru, and in the Soviet Union, where V.I. Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, was mummified and became a national icon. Ground zero for our knowledge of mummy preparation in Egypt is the Greek historian Herodotus, who visited Egypt ca. 450 BCE and described in detail three methods of mummification available in different price ranges. Despite Hollywood's portrayal of mummies, there's no need to think of them as stalkers from an ancient land, Brier assures us. Yes, some certainly were buried alive, murdered, sacrificed, but they're not out for revenge on anybody in our time. Relax, get to know a few mummies, and you'll assuredly find a familiar figure, even make a friend.
3..The Power of Mummies
This final episode looks at the last taboo: death. Bob Brier shows how our endless fascination with mummies and horror movies stems from our inability to directly confront our own mortality. However, this is only a recent phenomenon and Bob leads us around the many 'Galleries of the Grotesque' of the last few centuries.
Directed and produced by Peter Spry-Leverton
Narrated by Bob Brier
Music by Toby Langton-Gilks
Edited by Jonathan Cook
50 minutes per part, English and Mandarin Chinese dual audio
First broadcast December 3, 2000
Technical Specs
Video Codec: DivX
Video Bitrate: ~1570 Kbps/part
Video Resolution: 640x384
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.67 / 4:3
Video Framerate: 29.97
Quality Factor: 0.21 b/px
Audio1: English (subs included separately)
Audio1 Codec: Dolby AC3
Audio1 Bitrate: 256 kb/s @ 48KHz
Audio1 Channels: 2
Audio2: Mandarin Chinese
Audio2 Codec: Dolby AC3
Audio2 Bitrate: 256 kb/s @ 48KHz
Audio2 Channels: 2
Runtime per Part: 50 minutes
Number of Parts: 3
Part Size: 746 MB (1/2 DVDR total)
Ripped by: PolarBear
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ENGLISH SUBTITLES
CHINESE SUBTITLES
Extra Information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Brier
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