Engineering An Empire: Egypt (History Channel program) Part 6/7

Five thousand years ago--nearly two millennia before the Romans built their first mud huts--ancient Egypt's mighty pharaohs began commissioning and building monumental masterpieces whose scale, beauty, and sophistication still boggle the mind.

Hosted by actor and art historian Peter Weller, the feature-length EGYPT: ENGINEERING AN EMPIRE 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.

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[HistoryLover1550]

Amarna was trully beautiful in its prime!

[HistoryLover1550]

@EvilFiyero Ikr! How could they talk about Akhenaten without talking about his beloved queen and one of the most famous women in History?!

[AnnabelLolita]

@he3rtbrok3n I looked square feets up and obviously its roughly 10 square feet per square meter. My misstake. Still really stupid not to say square meters to solve the problem. Or Square yards, which is almost the same...

[he3rtbrok3n]

@AnnabelLolita .........can it

[EvilFiyero]

what about Nefertiti ?

[AnnabelLolita]

Square feet GEEEZ why not square meters. 0.3x0.3 = 0.09 square meter 70.000 square feet would be 700 square meter. Goodluck that white house is half of that. Square feet isnt even a proper way of messurement.

[CyberChick2011]

Okay who narrates this? He does a great job! :)

[tompe4]

First!!! :D