Kingdom of the Mummies (2020) User Reviews

It's not bad but it's complicated

[larakramer · 6/10 · 12 January 2021]

It feels a lot like grave robbing and I'm missing some respect for the mummies in question and their desire for how they wanted to be buried.

On the other hand these are Egyptians learning about their ancient cultures and also providing work for many egyptians.. its a fine line to walk and they are barely balancing it out

Masterpiece

[ezzelarabmostafa · 10/10 · 17 December 2020]

This movie one on NatGeo's masterpiece , A great adventure lead by Dr. Ramadan hussien which represents the new generation of smart Egyptian Egyptologists. I felt that I'm one of his team and liked every one of his team Especially Dr. mostafa tolba , Thanks for all team work In excavation project and NatGeo for this wonderful series.

Tomb Robbers.

[matt_rymer · 5/10 · 27 May 2020]

Interesting find but utterly disrespectful to the Egyptian dead to completely rob their tombs of everything they wanted to be left with. Basically tomb raiding with government approval. Also, listening to Salima Ikram explain the journey into the afterlife is like listening to a child after having heard it explained by the great John Anthony West and Graham Hancock.

1 hour Documentary stretched to 3 hours

[landon-70581 · 4/10 · 30 March 2021]

Every scene is repeated about 6 times. Some to the point it was comical.

It could have been a nice, well edited, concise, amazing 1 hour documentary. But a simple 30 second scene is stretched out, repeating the age of 2,600 years over and over and over and over and over as an example.

I'm sure someone made this choice that wasn't part of the creative team...and shouldn't even be involved. Someone in the office, that needs to justify the existence of their position had their hands all over the editing.

I recommend fast forwarding constantly, you won't miss anything. It's not worth investing 3 hours of time.

Disrespect to the Dead

[farshidkarimi · 3/10 · 10 June 2020]

The main character in the series (the man) keeps touting this dig as amazing, unrivaled the first in the history to a point the viewer feels exhausted to the bone.

Why would anyone do such disrespectful acts to the dead? They wanted to be mummified to rest in peace. Why would any one disturb their peace? Leave them alone.

The crew did not have the expertise to remove the mummified bodies out of the coffins, causing serious damage to them.

Worst of all is the bumptious, pretentious Salima Ikram, with her grotesque hand movements (actually jerking of her hands), pretending to know something about the mummies. She has been really a bummer in the series about ancient Egypt she participated. I hope the directors and producers of such documentaries will never let her have a role in them, so that viewers will not see the unusual display of her hands' movements.

Glorified tomb robbing

[kerridv · 2/10 · 30 September 2020]

I like Egyptian archeology but this was heinous. Completely disrespectful to the dead and the glee shown by Dr. Hussein was disgusting. Where does anyone get off opening a tomb and then extracting the mummy, as if we are any better than the tomb robbers they kept mentioning. It's one thing to find artifacts for a museum, it's another entirely to remove human beings for the sake of television. Disappointing.

NG stick to Dr. Albert Lin and his beloved LIDAR, at least he shows reverence and respect for ancient cultures.

Narration is distracting

[megzrankin · 3/10 · 9 September 2023]

The narrator has a very nasally voice, and it's distracting. Narration is so important to a documentary, a distracting voice makes or breaks your messaging. More than that, it was information overkill, to the point of redundancy. I usually love these types of programs, so I was surprised by the visceral reaction I had to the failings of this one. It's like they didn't edit it? I'm not sure if they needed to fill a certain amount of time and perhaps didn't get enough useful footage, but it felt like they were trying to fill time. Given it's three episodes, I expected far more from this documentary.