Daw Phyu lost her voice ten days ago. She could not talk to friends on Skype or Google for she had to rest her vocal cords. The persistent cough and acute pain in her lungs were irritating. She could not sleep. She could not read. And she could not watch even television. She fell asleep or probably "lost consciousness" during short periods of respite from coughs and pain before television documentaries finished.
Fortunately, the pain eased slightly last night. And she was coughing less. Yet she could not still speak; and she should not go out in this cold weather. So on Saturday morning, she started watching all BBC documentaries that she missed for the last three weeks.
The first series that she watched was "Ancient Worlds" by Richard Miles. She had already watched the first programme and another unrelated program titled the Delphi. So she needed to catch up the next three programmes by Richard Miles. And these programmes were broadcast at the right time for Daw Phyu who explored Greek archeological sites only a year earlier.
To her delight, the riddle of the Phoenician disappearance was solved by this documentary. Since she was very young, she wondered what had happened to these people. All the books she read many years ago could not give plausible accounts about the "disappearance" these once hugely successful maritime entrepreneurs; maybe Daw Phyu must have missed very good history books. She was also delighted to have been reacquainted with the history of Assyrians, Persians, ancient Greeks, Egyptians and the Jewish people. {WATCH THIS DOCUMENTARY, IF YOU ALSO WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THIS}
Then she started watching documentaries under the current BBC German season. Daw Phyu felt like as if she had hit the jackpot twice. On the same day, she discovered another great enigma of Frederick the Great! Oh! yes, he was not just the head of the German-Prussian military machine that inspired Hitler and his Third Reich, but also a philosopher king who was a patron of culture and free thinkers. It was also a delight to see historical places in Germany that she visited only a few years earlier. She never went to places like France, Germany or Greece for idle shopping. She had to be there to walk where historical figures had walked and breathed! {WATCH THIS DOCUMENTARY, IF YOU ALSO WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE ENIGMA OF FG}
History has been rewritten again and again by winners and thugs (and also by brave academics or champions of the truth). Ancient historical figures, their writings and monuments were defaced, destroyed and resurrected again and again in Europe, in ancient Egypt and in other parts of the world. Whatever has been defaced will be reconstructed and rebuilt. Whatever has been destroyed will also be resurrected. Whatever has been lost can be found again. So Daw Phyu is quite optimistic today about the enigmatic history of the lost worlds.
