Films for the Humanities and Sciences - The Sphinx in Context: Solving the Riddle

The Sphinx in Context: Solving the Riddle

Starting when the first explorers laid eyes on the incomparable Sphinx, theories have proliferated about who built it and why. In this program, Zahi Hawass, of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities; Egyptologist Fayza Haikal; Kathryn Bard, editor of The Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt; authors Paul Jordan and Robert Schoch; and others employ the latest scientific scholarship and research to dispute those many theories while addressing a century of preservation and restoration efforts. Their keen insights, in combination with 3-D computer animations, vintage newsreel footage, archival photos, and artwork, bring to life a story of monumental proportions. (51 minutes)

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Item#: BVL30089
Copyright date: ©2002
DVD ISBN 978-0-7365-5574-6

Part of the Series : History's Artifacts: Separating Fact from Fiction


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