Product Details

• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Wgbh Boston
• VHS Release Date: March 21, 2000
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• ASIN: B00004R60X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #399,186 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

They are massive spires created to glorify and honor the ancient Egyptian gods. Rising up to 100 feet and weighing up to 500 tons, these solid granite monuments reach heavenward, adorned with messages of praise, love and devotion. 3000 years later, return to the land of the Pharaohs and discover how the ancient Egyptians’ nautical experience, ingenuity and unwavering faith enabled them to raise these incredibly heavy monoliths with little more than rope, wood, brawn and brainpower.

- Travel inside ancient tombs and temples and "read" cryptic building "instructions" - Discover how Egyptians transported and erected immense stones in a time without cranes and steel cables - Travel to a Massachusetts granite quarry and take part in the nail-biting raising of a free-standing obelisk - See how the oldest preserved boat ever found reveals the Egyptians’ nautical expertise and ingenious use of natural materials - Float down the Nile on a modern version of an ancient flat-bottom barge

Secrets of Lost Empires II Unlock mysteries and uncover lost history with the experts as they use yesteryear’s thrilling technology to recreate five ancient engineering marvels and to discover what daily life was really like in these communities. Travel around the globe from Egypt to Rome and take a fresh, "hands-on" look at mankind’s greatest cultures and civilizations. It’s history from a whole new point of view!