Ancient Lives; No. 104; Year of the Hyena
- Series
- Ancient Lives
- Episode Number
- No. 104
- Episode
- Year of the Hyena
- Producing Organization
- Central Independent Television
- WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.)
- Contributing Organization
- The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip-526-qn5z60d72w
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- Description
- Series Description
- "'At the time Stonehenge was new, the people of Deir El Medina were leaving behind them an extraordinary and incredibly detailed record of their everyday lives. ANCIENT LIVES is about ordinary people--people with problems--just like the problems we face today.' -- Peter Spry-Leverton, producer of ANCIENT LIVES. "More then 3,000 years ago, a village was established on the arid west bank of the Nile as worker housing for the artists and artisans who created the tombs of the Pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings. "Their work was vital; it was through death and the ritual of burial that the Pharaohs became gods, and their elaborately carved tombs were an essential part of the mystic process. The stonemasons, painters, sculptors, quarreymen and scribes who lived with their wives and children in the village created masterworks of ancient art in the royal tombs. These artisans also built tombs and chapels for themselves and their families erected temples for the village gods, and wrote prayers and recorded their thoughts on stones and papyruses. The study of these ancient, wonderfully detailed records, combined with years of excavation at Deir El Medina (as the modern village is called) has enabled British Egyptologist John Romer to re-create the villagers' lives in minute detail. WTTW believes that ANCIENT LIVES is worthy of Peabody consideration because John Romer's commentary provides viewers with a 'living' tour of Ancient Egypt, an educational journey of the eye and mind that is rare in television."--1985 Peabody Awards entry form.
- Broadcast Date
- 1985-04
- Asset type
- Episode
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Producing Organization: Central Independent Television
Producing Organization: WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.)
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the
University of Georgia
Identifier: cpb-aacip-1a74abc1652 (Filename)
Format: U-matic
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Ancient Lives; No. 104; Year of the Hyena,” 1985-04, The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed October 3, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-526-qn5z60d72w.
- MLA: “Ancient Lives; No. 104; Year of the Hyena.” 1985-04. The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. October 3, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-526-qn5z60d72w>.
- APA: Ancient Lives; No. 104; Year of the Hyena. Boston, MA: The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-526-qn5z60d72w