Days That Shook the World — Season 1, Episode 7: Tutankhamun's Tomb / Deciphering the Rosetta Stone

Episode synopsis

26 November 1922 and 17 September 1822. Two days that brought ancient Egypt dramatically to life. In 1822, Jean-Francois champollion cracks Egyptian hieroglyphs. One hundred years later, Howard Carter reads the name on a tomb and makes an amazing discovery.

About Days That Shook the World

Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September 2003. The programme features various milestones throughout history. It has been broadcast on the BBC, Discovery Channel UK, The History Channel and Viasat History. The series was also released on DVD by the Polish edition of Newsweek in 2007.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II & The Death of Diana
• E2The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand / The Death of Hitler
• E3The Assassination of Martin Luther King / The Release of Nelson Mandela
• E4Hiroshima
• E5The Murder of the Romanovs / The Fall of the Berlin Wall
• E6Kristallnacht / The Birth of Israel
• E8Black September Hijackings / Lockerbie
• E9First Nuclear Reaction / Chernobyl
• E10The Assassination of JFK / The Resignation of Nixon
• E11Marconi's First Transatlantic Radio Transmission / Concorde's First Transatlantic Flight
• E12Faster than Sound: Chuck Yeager / Donald Campbell