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Egyptian Mummies: An Investigation (1979 Film)

Director

Ken Wrench

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Produced as part of the comprehensive investigation over several years of mummies in the Manchester collection. Each short section deals with one specific aspect of research: textile (bandage) analysis,...

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Media Screen Roundup - June 2015

Date

13 Jul 2015, 12:45

Author

Linda

Post Type

Post

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. This issue opens with a rather morbid...

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Mummy One Seven Seven 0 (1979 Film)

Director

Ken Wrench

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Records in detail the process of unwrapping Mummy 1770 in the Manchester Museum collection. The project, carried out over three days, was part of a major academic investigation of certain mummies in the...

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War of the Mummies (1974 Film)

aka: Krieg der Mumien, Der

Director

Walter Heynowski; Gerhard Scheumann

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Documentary consisting largely of footage shot in Chile during Allende’s Government of Popular Unity, and of interviews with those involved in its revolutionary overthrow.

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Mummy’s Blessing, The (1984 Video)

Director

Bill Metcalfe

Producer

Bob Thorpe

Subject

Archaeology; Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Shows how the study of an Egyptian mummy at Manchester Museum has resulted in the development of new fingerprinting methods and new techniques in radiology and pathology. Ends with a long sequence showing a...

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Inside the National State Hermitage Museum (2012)

Subject

Archaeology; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

This programme visits the National State Hermitage in St. Petersburg, which is one of the world’s oldest museums, boasting three million artefacts of art and antiquity, including tattooed mummies, items...

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Nostalgia for the Light (2012)

Director

Patricio Guzman

Subject

Archaeology; Astronomy; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 107 mins.), £9.99

A documentary drama by Patricio Guzman on the high altitude desert in Chile called Atacama. Atacama is highly significant to archaeologists for preserving the oldest known mummies in the world, and for being...

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Mystery of the Persian Mummy (2003 Video)

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 50 minutes), £125.00

The story of a magnificent mummy of an ancient Persian princess discovered in Pakistan. Covered in gold jewellery, and believed to be 2,600 years old, she had been offered for sale on the black market for...

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Mummies and the Wonders of Ancient Egypt (4 Parts) (1996 Video)

Producer

Lisa Bourgoujian

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 4 x 52 min., 1998 sale: £10.99 (inclusive) each

1: Egyptologists explore a new theory on how the huge rocks for the Great Pyramids at Giza were transported. 2: To the ancient Egyptians hieroglyphs, or sacred carvings, were powerful magical images capable...

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Pharaohs and Kings: A Biblical Quest (3 Parts) (1995 Video)

Director

Tim Copestake

Producer

Tim Copestake

Subject

Archaeology; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 3 x 60 min., 1998 sale: £29.99 (inclusive)

Originally broadcast in three parts. Egyptologist David Rohl sets out to prove that Egyptian chronology has been wrongly extended by several centuries and examines how this has distorted our understanding of...

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