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THE HISTORY CHANNEL® PRESENTS A STUNNING NEW SERIES EXAMINING THE WORLD'S FIRST SUPERPOWERS THROUGH THEIR MOST IMPORTANT ARCHITECTURAL ACHIEVEMENTS ENGINEERING AN EMPIRE Kicks off with two-hour special premiere episode EGYPT On Monday, October 9 at 9PM/8C Weekly one-hour series to air Mondays at 9PM/8C Hosted by Actor/Historian Peter Weller ("24", "Robocop") The History Channel launches an exciting new weekly series called ENGINEERING AN EMPIRE. Building on the success of the Emmy-winning hit special ROME: ENGINEERING AN EMPIRE, each episode in this fast-paced new series examines one of the world's most advanced civilizations from the perspective of their engineering feats using cutting-edge CGI. The one-hour weekly series takes a look at the key leaders of each empire and explores the mark each left on his or her society by way of roads, super-fortresses, dams, temples and other structures The new series launches with a special two-hour episode, EGYPT, on Monday, October 9 at 9 pm ET/PT and will air weekly on Mondays. The series is hosted by actor and art historian Peter Weller, who was featured prominently in ROME: ENGINEERING AN EMPIRE. Weller also hosts The Empire Challenge (www.theempirechallenge.com), an interactive trivia quiz promoting the new series. ENGINEERING AN EMPIRE: EGYPT (Mon., Oct. 9) It was 5,000 years agonearly two millennia before the Romans built their first mud hutswhen ancient Egyptians began creating edifices so vast and architecturally sophisticated they remain to this day among the most impressive structures ever built. For thousands of years, without the benefit of computers, cranes, trucks or power tools, Egypt's mighty pharaohs commissioned the construction of monumental masterpiecespyramids, temples, fortresses, harbors and canalswhose scale, beauty and craftsmanship still boggle the mind. But Egypt's road to architectural and imperial glory was paved with blood, betrayal and outright disaster. Egypt's massive pyramids, lavish burial temples, impenetrable forts and towering obelisks were the result of unparalleled architectural genius, unrivaled technology and millions of man-hours of backbreaking labor. As Egypt's succession of pharaohs alternately conquered and ceded vast expanses of what is today the Middle East, they pushed their royal architects to stretch the boundaries of imagination and human potential, essentially inventing the science of structural engineering as they went along. Using cutting-edge computer graphics and interviews with noted Egyptologists, and shot in high-definition, ENGINEERING AN EMPIRE: EGYPT explores the timeless engineering feats, and brings to life an astonishing ancient world through the prism of each pharaoh's indomitable personality. It covers the extraordinary period from the First Dynasty in 3000 B.C. to the end of the reign of Ramesses the Great in 1212 B.C., chronicling the great pharaohs and the startling accomplishments that helped make Egypt the world's first empire. Highlights of EGYPT include: · Menes, the founding king of the First Dynasty and the first pharaoh to unify Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom, oversaw the construction of the world's first dam, a massive, 50-foot-high wall that protected Egypt's capital Memphis from the Nile's ravaging flood waters. · An enterprising young pharaoh named Djoser, in 2668 B.C. commissioned a colossal burial tomb which would become the first stone building ever erected on Earth, and the first of Egypt's 100 pyramids. · Pharaoh Snefru, who married his half-sister in an effort to solidify his claim to the throne, was a benevolent leader but a brutal warrior who looted neighboring kingdoms to finance his architectural ambitions. Through a series of trials and catastrophic errors, he elevated the art of pyramid building to a new level. · Snefru's son Khufu built on his father's engineering experience to create the biggest and most perfect pyramid ever constructed: the Great Pyramid at Giza. Each of the building's four 700-foot sides was almost perfectly symmetrical, and each corner of the pyramid was level within fractions of an inch. · Essentially inventing military architecture, Pharaoh Sesostris III, the great warrior, conquered gold-rich Nubia with the help of a network of 17 vast and sophisticated fortresses stretching hundreds of miles into enemy territory. · The rebel pharaoh Akhenaten (father of Tutankhamen) who, based on a religious vision, moved Egypt's capital to a barren patch of desert virtually overnightrequiring his engineers to develop far faster building techniques. Within two years, the bustling city housed 20,000 people. · Ramesses II, who fathered more than 100 children, combined engineering and ego on an unprecedented scale to build two temples at Abu Simbel, one for himself and one for his beloved queen, Nefertari. Carved out of the face of a virgin cliff, Ramesses' monument was adorned by 69-foot solid rock statues and a lavishly decorated sanctuary built 200 feet inside the mountain. ENGINEERING AN EMPIRE Executive Producer for The History Channel is Dolores Gavin. Host is Peter Weller. ENGINEERING AN EMPIRE is produced for The History Channel by KPI. Christopher Cassel is Producer, Writer, Director of EGYPT and Creative Consultant on the ENGINEERING AN EMPIRE series. Executive Producers are Vincent Kralyevich, William Hunt, and Kristine Sabat. Narrator is Michael Carroll. Each of the programs in the series will use the society's engineering accomplishments as a prism through which to view its history and culture. Topics to be covered in the ENGINEERING AN EMPIRE series include: EGYPT (Oct. 9) GREECE (Oct. 16) GREECE: AGE OF ALEXANDER (Oct. 23) THE AZTECS (Oct. 30) CARTHAGE (Nov. 6) CHINA (Nov. 13) RUSSIA (Nov. 20) GREAT BRITAIN (Nov. 27) THE PERSIANS (Dec. 4) THE MAYA (Dec. 11) NAPOLEON AND BEYOND (Dec. 18) THE BYZANTINES (Dec. 25) AGE OF ARCHITECTS (TBD) The History Channel® is one of the leading cable television networks featuring compelling original, non-fiction specials and series that bring history to life in a powerful and entertaining manner across multiple platforms. The network provides an inviting place where people experience history in new and exciting ways enabling them to connect their lives today to the great lives and events of the past that provide a blueprint for the future. The History Channel has earned three Peabody Awards, six News and Documentary Emmy® Awards and received the prestigious Governor's Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for the network's Save Our History® campaign dedicated to historic preservation and history education. The History Channel reaches more than 89 million Nielsen subscribers. The website is located at www.History.com. |
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