The Real Scorpion KingShow Video Details ↓ Man: Scorpion displayed many characteristics of a full Pharaoh. But he came from an earlier age. Archaeologists have just opened a door of a whole new chapter of Egyptian history. Woman: Finding these objects was an amazing sensation because it was just so new and different. Things like the scorpion [inaudible] radically change peoples perceptions. It took them back to a time for which they have no text. It was really... Ummm. They were flummoxed, they didn't know what to do. I think that's why there's so much interest in the name. It was a bit of writing that they could read. [noise] Man: At the time it was widely assumed that Egyptian civilization sprang up suddenly in around three thousand BC with the arrival of the first Pharaohs. Woman: Many people had thought it had to be an invasion of a superior race. The exquisite beauty of the things that the Egyptian civilization created at the turn of century people didn't want to believe this was coming out of Africa. They wanted to root it in Mesopotamia or even in Europe. In some ways it was quite racist. Man: Few Egyptologists question the accepted idea that the Pharaohs were foreign invaders bringing rapid progress to a backward country. But with Crebell's discovery of the king who predated the Pharaohs, cracks begun to appear in this theory. The history books were about to be rewritten. |