Egypt: Engineering an Empire Page #2

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during a hunt.

But the dam

he built still standing ...

long after the last pharaoh

returned to the gods.

She was the cornerstone

the legacy builder of Egypt ...

a feat that would inspire generations

pharaohs to undertake ...

works increasing

and bolder.

Egypt is on the way

between Africa and the Middle East.

It is the presence of this river, the Nile,

making it the only country ...

the Sahara desert

a nature reserve with water.

Since when humans

began to walk upright ...

there are hundreds of thousands of years,

they were attracted here ...

for the river.

nitially, the nomadic tribes

migrating from sub-Saharan Africa ...

to the Middle East,

following the course of the Nile.

Later, with the

emergence of agriculture ...

in 9000 BC,

the tribes ...

settled permanently

on its banks.

When Menes finally united all

under one flag ...

more or less 3,000 B.C.

was born the Egyptian Empire.

Since then, several human dramas

permeated the history of Egypt.

But the Nile remains

the only constant presence.

And despite the occasional

catastrophic floods ...

he is the reason why the first

empire of the world came here ...

and not elsewhere.

At the dawn of the third millennium BC,

with the consolidation ...

the Egyptian city-states

By means of achievement ...

the river that has long represented

basic survival ...

assumed a new role,

The expansion engine ...

territorial and economic

unprecedented.

A network of ports and channels

was constructed to approximate ...

distant regions and irrigate a

desert landscape.

Barges have become huge

trucks of the time ...

and channels formed equivalent

an interstate highway system.

The Egyptians did not need

worry about roads and wheels ...

because they had the Nile

because the river runs from south to north ...

and it was possible to use the wind

to go from north to south.

After the Egyptians made

channels for walking ...

in east-west directions

and go elsewhere.

They were great

builders channels.

And engineers built canals

with miles long.

And they were used

to carry all ...

want to be a

large number of people ...

they were grains,

food or stones.

Almost 2000 years before the Romans

build the first huts ...

the pharaohs were building

on an unprecedented scale.

And for the first time in history,

technology revolutionizing ...

not only the way people lived,

but also as a die.

Nowhere in the ingenuity of

Ancient Egyptians was more apparent ...

than their

superb tombs.

The concept of life

after the death of Ancient Egypt ...

is very different

the Judeo-Christian concept.

For example, it is much more palpable.

The dead need us.

Their survival is

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