Fantastic!

I walked away a few times during the film so I’m not sure if they ever mentioned the animals, such as camels or elephants that may have played a part in the labor of the building.Some of the places they discovered I thought might have housed the animals. Surely animals were used also. So they would have had to have enough food and water for them as well and possibly even housing.

Shame on you for your disrespect of the past. I thought this was truly amazing. I love ancient history, and what it means to see the real history.  I enjoyed the re-creation of what life might have been like then. The excitement of discovery is what history is all about. You can’t hurry it, the fact that those working on the sites were careful, and respectful of what they were hoping to find is gratifying. I always wished I could have been an archeologist. Many facts were previously known, but I could watch the discoveries over and over. Just imagine the age and condition of the finds is amazing. Please give us more.

What a stupid show.

They tried so hard to drag it out by pretending it was interesting that it was painful to watch.

NG mostly does a better job than this, I was disappointed.

I thought this was a mildly interesting documentary that brought up a few things I hadn’t heard of before. For that I’m not entirely regretful that I spent the time I did investing in it. But I thought it was a mockingly Western-minded generic display with cheesy presenters and the pompous “ white expert” who didn’t even acknowledge the workers who did all the work he took credit for. Here’s a fact, we aren’t all generic dumbleheads, we don’t need to be spoken to as if we are stupid. I saw a number of bumbles in the production. Sloppy.

But MOST importantly, if you can spend weeks, months, perfecting a machine to drill through the first door, why do you end the presentation with “Oh well, there’s a second door. Let’s give up on this documentation.” I thought that was incredibly stupid and made me feel like my invested time was a waste. If you can drill through one door, why not another? Deadlines ruin history. National Geographic, unfortunately, has a well known reputation for skipping the most important pieces of the puzzle. Guess that explain why they need to many Corporate Sponsors. Because pharmaceutics companies and gas stations care “so much” about the world (LOL).

I thought this was a mildly interesting documentary that brought up a few things I hadn’t heard of before. For that I’m not entirely regretful that I spent the time I did investing in it. But I thought it was a mockingly Western-minded generic display with cheesy presenters and the pompous “ white expert” who didn’t even acknowledge the workers who did all the work he took credit for. Here’s a fact, we aren’t all generic dumbleheads, we don’t need to be spoken to as if we are stupid. I saw a number of bumbles in the production. Sloppy.

But MOST importantly, if you can spend weeks, months, perfecting a machine to drill through the first door, why do you end the presentation with “Oh well, there’s a second door. Let’s give up on this documentation.” I thought that was incredibly stupid and made me feel like my invested time was a waste. If you can drill through one door, why not another? Deadlines ruin history. National Geographic, unfortunately, has a well known reputation for skipping the most important pieces of the puzzle. Guess that explain why they need to many Corporate Sponsors. Because pharmaceutics companies and gas stations care “so much” about the world (LOL).

I thought this was a mildly interesting documentary that brought up a few things I hadn’t heard of before. For that I’m not entirely regretful that I spent the time I did investing in it. But I thought it was a mockingly Western-minded generic display with cheesy presenters and the pompous “ white expert” who didn’t even acknowledge the workers who did all the work he took credit for. Here’s a fact, we aren’t all generic dumbleheads, we don’t need to be spoken to as if we are stupid. I saw a number of bumbles in the production. Sloppy.

But MOST importantly, if you can spend weeks, months, perfecting a machine to drill through the first door, why do you end the presentation with “Oh well, there’s a second door. Let’s give up on this documentation.” I thought that was incredibly stupid and made me feel like my invested time was a waste. If you can drill through one door, why not another? Deadlines ruin history. National Geographic, unfortunately, has a well known reputation for skipping the most important pieces of the puzzle. Guess that explain why they need to many Corporate Sponsors. Because pharmaceutics companies and gas stations care “so much” about the world (LOL).

As CEO of National Geographic Ventures, I was present throughout the live program that served as the basis for this documentary, as well as the preceding week, where we were preparing the robotic vehicle for the live insertion of the fiber optic camera. We had no view behind the blocking door before the live show; indeed, we experienced a wide range of technical difficulties all week and ran significant risk that the live science would fail ... and then we lost our satellite signal for about 3 minutes in the middle of the show. We were working with a limited amount of time to undertake both the sarcophagus opening and the look behind the blocking door. We had time to try to insert the camera and show what was behind, but nothing more, nor any way to penetrate behind the 2nd door even if the air time had not ended. Your criticism is therefore completely misplaced. 
Rick Allen

This program was a horrible piece of academic propaganda designed to perpetuate that which is Egyptological theory, as Egyptological fact.  My main problems with this program are:

1.  We are told, as fact, right off the bat that the Great Pyramid was built as Kufu’s tomb, but later in the program Zahi Hawass himself goes on to talk about all the elaborate hieroglyphs and whatnot in the tomb of the “Overseer,” that were there because the man was so important.  So then why are there no hieroglyphs and buckets of beer anywhere in the Great Pyramid if it was really Kufu’s tomb?  Why would the “Overseer” get all this treatment that Kufu himself would not?  Perhaps the pyramid is more than just a tomb.  Maybe it wasn’t a tomb at all.

2.  The other main problem I have, is that if this was really the first time anyone has looked through the hole in the door, then why did the program so “conveniently” rap up the second they looked through?  What if there was actually a discovery to be made?  There would have been no air time left to display it to the audience.  That means we were lied to right from the start.

In closing, this was a shameful production.  The secrets of the Ancient Egyptians belong to all of humanity.  We deserve honest and open Egyptology, not Hollywood farces.  For some real insight into the Ancient Egyptian culture, I suggest you watch the Magical Egypt series here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHHnkm0eHgg

I enjoyed this show on cable and I enjoyed watching it again here on SnagFilms. 

But what I did not enjoy was the woman at the end with Dr. Hawass.  She doesn’t know when to shut up!  She asked questions and NEVER let the man answer one completely.  He is the expert.  Let the man talk lady!  Besides your questions were inane and vacuous to the extreme. 

Otherwise one of National Geographic clearest looks at current archeology and technology being used in the world.

Remarkable.

What a monumental waste of an hour and a half.
The only thing missing was Geraldo...We’re gonna open this tomb and… omigod, a skeleton!
Nothing presented disproves the theory of slave labor--the presence of women? Meat? A city? Would those things disprove the presence of slavery in the South?  It’s nothing but a desperate attempt by a proud Egyptian to rewrite a history of slave labor.  How ridiculous: every other empire had slavery, but the Egyptians didn’t? Rulers with the unparalled egotism to demand pyramids for eternal life, but, otherwise, equality?!  What a joke.

I have always believed as an artist that is much power from the Pyramids. This show proved it. It was truly an expereince and journey we could never have taken without you guys

I have always wanted to go to the great Pyramids and I will be going now. I will film my next music video there for the power that I need to succeed in this world. Please check out my work also at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f_lTwtUKNc and http://www.kennynash.com

Sincerely Impressed,

Kenny Nash

This was a fantastic film.  My wife and I took a trip to Egypt in July 2009 and saw some of the pyramids mentioned.  The facts in this film were most revealing and informative.  Very well done National Geographics.

Super loved every minute of it.  Can’t wait until we see what is next.

Oh, I know those guys. They worked for the same people that I worked for in 1996. I had three task masters. No A/C. No heat. Had to run everywhere - was not allowed to walk because that was too slow. Had to lift very heavy stuff.
And if you died, they erased your name off the roster.

Sorry to say I was unable to watch the film because it kept stopping, starting, repeating itself and with the same words being spoken again in the background. Maybe it will be on tv in the future and I can watch it.

Every second is a fascinating bit of information. Well done. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

There is a small chamber with another door.

Wow.  These discoveries change a lot of history.  The Isrealites were not the pyramid-building slaves.  Additionally, aliens from other planets did not building the pyramids.  Very interesting.  Thank you National Geographic.

To Tank...Hey Men of Zion in the Land of the real.

To Tank...Hey Men of Zion in the Land of the real.

Linda, you’re stupid. You’re just not smart enough to load videos.

where are you located? this works for me (but i’m in us)

I can’t get any of the videos to load.  Is this a temporary problem or is this site no longer active?

when will the videos be available?

Does this happen often?

Where’s the rest of the video??

This documentary doesn’t seem complete. is there a second part to it?

What did robot find after that door in the shaft? please post the next part or complete this one.

Very very Brilliant show

Would have been very interesting if I had gotten the full video!

This is a total false. The Egyptologist was sued by the production company for throwing things into the holes to make the piece more interesting. Also, they keep referring to the pyramid as a tomb with burial chambers. However, no bodies are ever found in the pyramid. In fact, they did find miles away in what’s considered “The Valley of the Kings” over 40 Pharoh mummies.