History Channel Engineering an Empire Egypt

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.