The Judgement of Caesar: A Mystery of Ancient Rome
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It is 48 BC.For years now the rival Roman generals Caesar and Pompey have engaged in a contest for...
The Crown of Ptolemy (Percy Jackson & Kane Chronicles Crossover #3)
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In their first encounter, demigod Percy Jackson and magician Carter Kane had to battle a giant...
Kemet: Blood and Sand
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The epic Egyptian game Kemet is reborn with a new revised edition! With Kemet: Blood and Sand,...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Gods Of Egypt (2016) in Movies
Feb 10, 2018 (Updated Feb 10, 2018)
Well, the plot is nothing special and the film often seems to be on the verge of sending itself up, but on the other hand it's visually interesting and the choice to treat the weirder bits of Egyptian mythology as being literally true (boss-god Ra is obliged to drag the sun around the Earth every day, on a length of chain attached to the back of his flying boat) means the story is at least a bit different.
You can, I suppose, complain that none of the people playing Egyptians in this film are actually Egyptian; many did, and I suppose I must have missed them complaining in a similar vein when Japanese and coloured actors were cast as inhabitants of Scandinavian fantasyland in the Thor movies. But c'mon, guys, it's a film about Gerard Butler in a flying space chariot pulled by giant beetles - it is possible to take this sort of thing a bit too seriously. (I look forward to retiring to my bunker and listening to the flaming-torch-wielding mob as they mill around outside.)
Anyway, not a great movie by any stretch of the imagination, but hardly terrible, either, and at least it is pleasing to the eye and has a certain novelty.
A Cat's Tale: A Journey Through Feline History
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A Cat's Tale is a history of feline kind: its origins, the evolution of the relationship with their...
The Secret Chamber of Osiris: Lost Knowledge of the Sixteen Pyramids
Scott Creighton and Rand Flem-Ath
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After nearly 200 years of the pyramid-as-tomb theory, a growing body of evidence suggests the first...
Treasures of the Brooklyn Museum
Anne Pasternak and Kevin L. Stayton
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Located in the heart of King's County, the Brooklyn Museum is an anchor of New York City and a world...
Isis Unveiled: Secrets of the Ancient Wisdom Tradition
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Isis Unveiled, published in 1877, is a book of esoteric philosophy, and was Helena Petrovna...
