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 inventingthe science of structural engineering. Follow the empire's developmentfrom the First Dynasty of 3000 BC through the last days the reign of Ramses the Great in 1212 BC, from dazzling obelisks to the 700-footGreat Pyramid of Giza.

Director of photography, Jeremiah Crowell ; editor, Jennifer P. Honn ; art director, Preeya Jensen ; narrator, Michael Carroll ; music, Michael Richard Plowman ; costume design, Michael Habib.

Behind the scenes featurettes: Inside look from the director's chair,and Everything you want to know about Egypt.