TUT: History Revealed

future generations will scarce remember those who perished tonight and he is truly claim the greatness a 2-ton come one for saving the lives of so many ancient Egypt and I think the Tutankhamen's story in particular is interesting because the amount of intrigue and drama and revolutionary change that's surrounding the time when this boy takes the throne to the time that he dies was considerable what do they say about drama that you need to have conflict this is the perfect time period we've always said from the beginning it doesn't have to be completely accurate to touch life that's impossible there's too much we don't know and we have in order to make a movie up to dramatize certain thing but we want to make sure it's historically accurate that within the world we're creating that could really happen fate is not what you walk it is what you take - no common is so intensely popular I think most of it has to do with the tomb the discovery of that tomb in 1922 by Howard Carter when they found the tomb they documented everything as you can see the amount of canes and hat or the kind of brooches he had and this is all things that he would specifically be buried with because he wanted them in his afterlife that small non Orthodox tomb was just packed with objects made of solid gold with objects made of electrum with imported precious woods that were painted and plastered he dies so unexpectedly that his tomb isn't finished and so they bury him in this tomb meant for a private person in the Valley of the Kings it's an unusual tomb it's very aberrant it doesn't fit with a typical row pattern his life is cut short before he's 20 he's dead which is perfect for drama everything is amplified it does look like he died with drama it has a Titanic element that we know the ship is going down and we want to see how it's gonna happen Egypt it was really at the height of its power is really one of the few places that had a consolidated power and it was a time of real upheaval because his father Akhenaten had disbanded many of the gods Akhenaten instituted some very very radical religious changes and those religious changes started by reproducing himself as a god of light and as he does so he becomes exclusionary and he starts to hack out the names of other gods and so there is this notion and it's a possibility that Akhenaten was the first monotheists in the entire world it certainly seems that he's the first religious fanatic his father died and Tut took over that eight years old his handlers starting with the zero I implemented the old religion back give us back the old gods decision breasts the Pharaoh Dennis is done this could be one of the few time periods for which we have evidence that a king was actively controlled and controlled by men this situation is highly unusual for ancient Egypt because that just invites problems you didn't want to have an uncle in charge or a general in charge or some of their man in charge because they could create a coup and take over whom can I trust one I was one of Akhenaten's most loyal supporters and it's interesting to see I then help move Egypt back into the direction of Orthodoxy back to traditionalism I wanted power was ambitious and was setting himself up for that power he was a formidable man there's no outright evidence of coercion during Akhenaten's time however the people that he rewards the most are soldiers in the military Horemheb is one of the leaders of this military group this this social power by the time Akhenaten dies he's probably your chief military leader and as you move into the reign of - na common he really takes the reigns of military power so he's absolutely essential this is the opportunity to eliminate the Mitanni from history the Mitanni are an ethnic group in Syria and they actively push against the Egyptian Imperial machine so yeah they're in active aggression with one another you're not ready to leave these men into battle I will fight for my people with my men and with you Kings were proud of their their military exploits they did train and they trained in archery they trained riding their chariots and did actually face the enemy in combat can there be victory it will take the will of all the gods combined so there was this woman Uncas on a moon and this is we think a half-sister of Tutankhamun and it may seem very strange that brother sister would then marry each other but in the 18th dynasty it was a very expedient way of keeping the wealth and the family they're both marrying each other at the very moment when they might be able to procreate children he's only nine years old and she may be a little bit older maybe she's 11 or 12 or something like that it is possible that they did have this sexual union we're able to procreate and have children with one another but that they were unsuccessful in seeing those children live in his tumor to fetus --is that were stillborn who died in utero we have no rightful heir this gives others reason to claim their right to the throne I have no doubt then we live even now women who were beautiful could be brought in so non real women were brought into the harem all the time you may love you but I am his queen it is possible that a woman in the right place at the right time with the right healthy son could see herself launched into this extraordinary position as mother of the king I'm coming home often common all the people that try to maneuver him into oblivion are themselves forgotten yet through a minor movement of history and sand he's the one who celebrated he's the one who's remembered the Egyptians were so brilliantly committed to sustaining their civilization they did succeed and look at the pyramids look at how thrilled we are to discover any fragments that they might have left behind put them in museums thousands of people queue to see them and therefore to bring this colossal civilization to life is quite through you

Channel: SPIKE

Views: 293,578

Keywords: TUT, Spike (TV Network), King Tut (Composition), Egypt (Country), Ancient Egypt (Literature Subject), Miniseries (TV Genre), Avan Jogia (TV Actor), Kylie Bunbury, Ben Kingsley (Film Actor), Nonso Anozie (TV Actor)

Id: TEE3vB1-kIY

Length: 6min 43sec (403 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 17 2015