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Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Egypt became increasingly popular as well as available to a larger audience than in past centuries. Thanks to advances in technology it became much easier to distribute information to mass populations thus making learning about the mysteries of Ancient Egypt became accessible to almost everyone and not just scholars and the rich. Sally MacDonald and Micheal Rice explain how the increase in the popularity of Egypt around the world affected the information that was being produced. They maintain, “particular agendas of contemporary politics have played their part in representing a view of Egypt which is little influenced by the realities of its history or the achievements of its people.” Because excitement and mystery was associated with Egypt the country became a widely used theme on television and in movies, which portrayed the region with sinister overtones, sacrifice, and cataclysmic events. By the 1980’s television documentaries were more concerned with the unexplained aspects of Egypt than with the achievements of the Ancient Egyptians and presenters and experts on the topics tended to lack any real authority in the subject they were discussing. | Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Egypt became increasingly popular as well as available to a larger audience than in past centuries.<ref>MacDonald & Rice, 2010</ref> Thanks to advances in technology it became much easier to distribute information to mass populations thus making learning about the mysteries of Ancient Egypt became accessible to almost everyone and not just scholars and the rich. Sally MacDonald and Micheal Rice explain how the increase in the popularity of Egypt around the world affected the information that was being produced. They maintain, “particular agendas of contemporary politics have played their part in representing a view of Egypt which is little influenced by the realities of its history or the achievements of its people.” Because excitement and mystery was associated with Egypt the country became a widely used theme on television and in movies, which portrayed the region with sinister overtones, sacrifice, and cataclysmic events. By the 1980’s television documentaries were more concerned with the unexplained aspects of Egypt than with the achievements of the Ancient Egyptians and presenters and experts on the topics tended to lack any real authority in the subject they were discussing. | ||
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The Giza Hall of Records is a theoretical hidden library containing the scholarly work of a lost ancient civilization. Although the records have never been found, some pseudo-archaeologists believe they exist and insist that they are proof of a civilization that predates the ancient Egyptians and is even more advanced than our own society today.[1]
Historical Context
Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Egypt became increasingly popular as well as available to a larger audience than in past centuries.[2] Thanks to advances in technology it became much easier to distribute information to mass populations thus making learning about the mysteries of Ancient Egypt became accessible to almost everyone and not just scholars and the rich. Sally MacDonald and Micheal Rice explain how the increase in the popularity of Egypt around the world affected the information that was being produced. They maintain, “particular agendas of contemporary politics have played their part in representing a view of Egypt which is little influenced by the realities of its history or the achievements of its people.” Because excitement and mystery was associated with Egypt the country became a widely used theme on television and in movies, which portrayed the region with sinister overtones, sacrifice, and cataclysmic events. By the 1980’s television documentaries were more concerned with the unexplained aspects of Egypt than with the achievements of the Ancient Egyptians and presenters and experts on the topics tended to lack any real authority in the subject they were discussing.