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What the Ancients Did for Us - Season 1 - Episode 7 - The Egyptians
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Watch Series: What the Ancients Did for Us Released in (2005) - Season 1 - Episode 7 ,airing date 2005-03-30 produced by UK, The TV Series categorized in Documentary, and content rating 9h with duration 60 min broadcasted as these networks BBC Two, BBC, Streamed at Putlocker & directed by Martin Kemp, Kate Murray. Egypt became a unified country five thousand years ago and - until the arrival of Alexander the Great in 332 BC - remained a fiercely independent land with its own very distinctive art, religion and culture. Egypt was the superpower of its day and her kings were treated as demigods throughout the Mediterranean world – but what did they do for us?
It goes without saying they gave us mummies and mummification, and one of the great wonders of the ancient world – the pyramids. On a more practical level they invented the sewn plank boat, a method of boat construction using wooden pegs and fibre rope - no nails. Huge boats were built using this technique, the most famous one belonging to King Khufu, the builder of the great pyramid in 2500 BC. The recent discovery of a Bronze Age boat in Britain reveals that this method of construction had found its way here and could have influenced our own boat builders.
Trying to control the flood water of the Nile, the Egyptians built the first dam, a hu
Genre: Documentary
Actor: Adam Hart-Davis, Marty Jopson, Hermione Cockburn, Jamie Darling, Amani Zain
Creators: Martin Kemp, Kate Murray
Country: UK
Languages: en, English,
Episode: 7
Runtime: 60
Date Modified: 2019-10-21 00:32:58
Air Date: 2005-03-30
Year Released: 2005
Rating: 6.5 out of 10
Content Rating: 9h
Views: 19
Quality: HD
Networks:
BBC Two,
BBC,
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Keywords:Tv Mini Series
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