Egypt: Engineering an Empire
2006 · 92 MIN · IMDB 7.9 · 283 VOTES · DIR. Christopher Cassel
Overview
Twenty-five hundred years before the reign of Julius Caesar, the ancient Egyptians were deftly harnessing the power of engineering on an unprecedented scale. Egyptian temples, fortresses, pyramids and palaces forever redefined the limits of architectural possibility. They also served as a warning to all of Egypt's enemies-that the world's most advanced civilization could accomplish anything. This two-hour special uses cinematic recreations and cutting-edge CGI to profile the greatest engineering achievements of ancient Egypt, and the pharaohs and architects who were behind them. Includes Djoser's Step Pyramid at Saqqara, Senusret's Nubian Superfortresses, Hatshepsut's Mortuary Temple at Dier el-Bahari, Akhenaten's city at Amarna, and the temples of Ramesses the Great at Abu Simbel.
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00:00:02 Five thousand years ago, when Greece and Rome did not pass ...
00:04:16 with the aid of an innovative building technology.
00:07:56 works increasing and bolder.
00:11:38 and all he could need in eternity.
00:15:39 To extract the stone the grave of his dreams ...
00:19:05 which serve as royal palace in the afterlife.
00:22:51 Are as close as possible Zoser's tomb ...
00:26:32 stacking them as layers of a wedding cake.
00:30:23 Forget the "half-sister". Egyptian pharaohs often ...
00:33:52 are clearly visible the signs of their destruction.
00:37:20 but Seneferu, astute politician who was ...
00:40:46 was a unique challenge to an engineer old ...
00:44:39 but had quermanos a deadly weapon.
00:48:07 mercantile center since the former empire.
00:52:13 I needed to build as a.
00:56:00 The 184km south of Thebes. Was left where the majority ...
00:59:37 But there is a prime suspect, Hatshepsut's stepson ...
01:03:33 and retains little of the enormous structures that made ??her ...
01:07:48 the two mountains on the horizon. So when a god ...
01:11:46 Mas, taking the gold and artifacts, the tomb of Tut is actually ...
01:15:42 Tugs came after of Bricklayers covering the rustic walls ...
01:19:44 Dam Assuam, 124km downstream.
01:24:08 in the 10th year of the reign of Ramses.
01:28:06 During the reign of Ramses the Great The Abu-Simbel temples in ...