Engineering an Empire: Egypt
Type
Audio/Visual
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Category
Cultural Documentary
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Publication Year
2007
Publisher
History Channel, United States
Duration
141 min.
Subject
Egypt -- History -- To 332 B.C. Egypt -- Antiquities. Egypt -- Civilization. Structural engineering -- Egypt. Antiquities. Civilization. Structural engineering. Egypt.
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Abstract
This documentary explores Egypt's awe-inspiring engineering accomplishments through the prism of its pharaohs' indomitable personalities. As Egypt's pharaohs alternately conquered and ceded vast expanses of land, they pushed their royal architects to stretch the boundaries of imagination and human potential, in effect inventing the science of structural engineering. Follow the empire's development from the First Dynasty of 3000 BC through the last days of the reign of Ramses the Great in 1212 BC, from dazzling obelisks to the 700-foot Great Pyramid of Giza.
Description
One of 6 videodiscs (712 min. total) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Each episode runs approximately 45 min.
Audio: in English.
Captions and transcript available through Films on Demand.
Each episode runs approximately 45 min.
Audio: in English.
Captions and transcript available through Films on Demand.
Biblio Notes
Films on Demand:
https://digital-films-com.swcproxy.swccd.edu/p_Collection.aspx?seriesID=18257
https://digital-films-com.swcproxy.swccd.edu/p_Collection.aspx?seriesID=18257
Number of Copies
1
