BBC Timewatch – The Pharaoh’s Lost City (2007)
English | Documentary | Size: 1.21 GB
The ancient site of Tell el-Amarna in Middle Egypt was the capital city of the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten and his chief consort, Nefertiti.
More than 3000 years ago, the rebel Pharaoh Akhenaten marched his people from his capital Thebes to build a new city in the desert. The city of Amarna was the place of the most dramatic upheaval in the 3,000 year religious history of Ancient Egypt and the vision of just one man. Here Akhenaten would shrink the old world of 2,000 gods to 1.
It took 20 years to build. The people of this city worshipped in the world’s first monotheistic religion, overseen by Akhenaten and his beautiful Queen Nefertiti. The city was designed as a religious utopia. He set out to create the greatest city the world had ever seen and it appeared he had succeeded.
But the pharaoh’s great city would last just 20 years. Occupied for just sixteen or so years in the fourteenth century BC, the city lay largely abandoned and forgotten until excavations over the last hundred years brought it back into prominence.
For over a century archaeologists have been excavating the ruins at Amarna. King Akhenaten’s short-lived capital still seems to offer the least fragmentary example of a city layout from New Kingdom Egypt. Although often regarded as of unusual spaciousness, taking advantage of the ready availability of building land on a desert site, a city was very different to what was previously thought.
Recently a team under the directorship of Prof. Barry Kemp (University of Cambridge) has made a remarkable discovery. For the first time they have unearthed, in a desert cemetery, the skeletons of Amarna’s workers; the people who built and lived in the city.
With unique access to a 30-year long project, using dramatic reconstruction and Computer Generated Imaging, Timewatch reveals the hidden truths of life in Amarna, during one of the most turbulent periods of Egyptian history – the time of the rebel pharaoh.
Produced & Directed by John Hayes Fisher ; BBC, Smithsonian Networks and The Open University Co-Production
Narrator: Michael Praed
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