The New York Times by Dana Stevens
Young viewers seduced by the trashy flash of "The Mummy" and "The Mummy Returns" will be able to glimpse a vanished reality richer, stranger and bigger than all of the special effects in Hollywood.
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Canada, United States · 1998
Rated G · 39m
Director Bruce Neibaur
Starring Omar Sharif, Kate Maberly, Timothy Davies, Julian Curry
Genre Documentary, History
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Filmed in IMAX, a young girl questions her grandfather about the alleged curse of King Tutankhamen. His response takes us up to the source of the nourishing river Nile, to the Great Pyramids of Giza, to the Valley of the Kings.
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The New York Times by Dana Stevens
Young viewers seduced by the trashy flash of "The Mummy" and "The Mummy Returns" will be able to glimpse a vanished reality richer, stranger and bigger than all of the special effects in Hollywood.
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Everyone will be awed by the swooping shots and sweeping vistas -- the stuff IMAX really does know how to do right.
A very elegant and fit-looking Omar Sharif appears as the on-screen narrator and Kate Maberly ("The Secret Garden") plays his granddaughter in a framing story.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
An oversized National Georgraphic special whose images of the Nile and Egyptian ruins are absolutely breathtaking on the oversized IMAX screen.
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