Dramatic Documentary

Transcript

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For over 3000 years, a story has lain hidden beneath the sands of Egypt, a story we're only now beginning to reclaim. It is a story of a time we call the New Kingdom. It left us the greatest treasures of the ancient world, an extraordinary legacy in papyrus, stone and gold. But behind these treasures lion epic tale of real people, people like Ramses the Great Tutankhamen, the boy King and one of the most beautiful and powerful women of the ancient world, Queen Nefertiti. It is a story brought to life by their own words and those of the ordinary men and women who have changed the course of history. In eyewitness accounts, soldiers ascribed the birth of an empire forged on the battlefield Faeroes record how they created their own legends and became the richest rumors in the world and ancient craftsman reveal how they turned Egypt's unimaginable wealth into tunes, temples and treasure. They tell how, in the end they would be forced to destroy the very tombs they had built. This is the story of the rise and fall of Egypt's Golden Empire