Michael Ledo This is a four part mini-series docu-drama about the discovery of the tomb of King Tut, the pharaoh who made Steve Martin famous. The film has lots of drama from the backdrop of WWI and civil unrest to internal conflicts. Howard Carter, the discovery had a balancing act and two women who desire him, one brains and the other beauty with money. Not much of a mystery there.This film was remarkably made without Ben Kingsley, John Rhys-Davies, Brendan Fraser, or Nicolas Cage. It's length felt shortened by the episodes and is worth a watch even though we know the ending. Good performances.Guide: No nudity. Implied sex. 1 F-word.

Charles Herold (cherold) The harshest reviews here have been by people criticizing the series historical inaccuracies, but all I know about the discovery of King Tut's tomb I know from a little light reading after watching the series, so I really don't care if there were no Rolls Royce's in Egypt at the time.But purely as a historical drama, the series isn't especially well constructed. I don't mind the romance between Carter and Lady Evelyn because it most likely never happened but rather because it overshadows the actual story of the tomb. The problem is that the script never makes me care about that relationship, yet focuses on it so much that I feel the science is completely underserved.I was also a little bothered by the portrayal of the Egyptian government as officious, soulless bureaucrats. I'm not saying they weren't, but I think the history of Egypt, Britain, and artifacts is a rather complicated one and this strikes me as a simplistic approach.Overall, this feels like a script written by someone who wasn't convinced that Carter's discovery of the Tomb was particularly compelling, and thus ginned it up with romance and conflict and attempted to shape it into a conventional and fairly forgettable little drama.On the other hand, the story is scenic, the actors are likable, there are good moments, and overall the series kept me entertained until it fizzled at the end.

robandlinzi very poor in retrospect to the truth, for starters where is the Nile river in the shots, it was not that far away, Sam neill is a great actor and i find it hard to understand why he took this role as it's very week and untrue to the great lord carnarvon the 5th earl,lady evelyn carnarvon would have only been around the age of 21 and not the age depicted in the show, and lady evelyn never had an affair with carter, the rolls Royce was never there and was not the car that lord carnarvon had use of at that time, i find the show a complete embarrassment of the true story and for Itv to have play it on TV is a shame, i love ITV but this is a new low and i have canceled my recordings on sky. i shall not be watching it any longer, very disappointed in the series,roby

graestella I wish this was a full review, but I got so angry that I turned it off twenty minutes in. 1) It's filmed in South Africa, not Egypt. Whether this was to save money, or to prevent anything Egyptian creeping in, it's hard to say. Even the rocks looked wrong. The Valley of the Kings is covered in white limestone chippings. Not the khaki coloured material shown here. The older BBC production 'Egypt' (2005) which covered the same material was filmed in Luxor, and in the largely deserted Western Valley and looked the part. From the opening scene this production looks wrong. 2) Then Carter, hopelessly miscast as a strapping young man, is introduced. He finds an empty tomb and angrily punches out an unnamed French Duke. This event can only be a misrepresentation of him throwing the French tourists (plural) out of the Serapeum at Sakkara in 1905. Hundreds of miles away from the Valley of the Kings. He didn't punch anyone at this incident. Also he was an Inspector at the time and not an Excavator, but all this would slow down the plot and lose the casual viewer. However the BBC version kept it all in and didn't insult the viewer. But then again, punching out a fictitious Duke saved on several French and Arab extras and a second unit setup at a fake Serapeum. 3) Then we are introduced to a synthetic character. A female American Archaeologist called Maggie Lewis. This is in itself unlikely the way women were treated by academia in the period. She is used to replace several male contemporaries of Carter's. Implying that she was his only friend. Saves on the casting I suppose and shipping lots of minor actors out to the expensive South African shoot. 4) Lord Carnarvon is shown arriving in 'Egypt'. He drives a silver sports model of a Rolls Royce which looks far too modern for 1905. Carter's diaries record that the first car in the valley, a Model T Ford, arrived in 1923, after Tut's tomb was discovered. Oh well, it saved on hiring all those pesky horse and carriage teams during the shoot. 5) Then we get some Time Travel. Davis is shown finding a cup. After Carnarvon and Carter are granted their licence to dig in the Valley. How? He had retired by this point. In reality Carter and Carnarvon were digging in several other places for 5 years before digging in the Valley. This would make sense. But the bungling writers had already said that they were in the Valley not somewhere else. It seems at this point the writers had already given up and were just writing anything and not checking the script. 6) Then the cup is taken by the wrong assistant archaeologist to Maggie (who didn't exist) to identify. Agh! It was at this point I wondered what a mess they would make of the major story elements. The discovery of Tut's Tomb, and the alleged romance between Carter and Lady Evelyn. This appalling start didn't bode well. Then I decided to stop beating myself up and turn over. The BBC version, despite several errors, was Shakespeare compared to this. They could have just put that on again and burnt all the money they wasted on this travesty. I believe that they knew this was rubbish before they finished it. Why else did it take so long to make? Then it was previewed, without a scheduled date, for several months. Finally appearing after the much superior 'Victoria' finished its eight week run. This only increased the massive feeling of anti-climax.