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Secrets of Lost Empires II Boxed Set [VHS] Review

Secrets of Lost Empires II Boxed Set [VHS] Overview

Travel around the globe from China to Egypt and take a fresh, hands-on look at mankind’s greatest cultures and civilizations. With the help of experts, you’ll recreate five enigmatic structures using only ancient tools and modern brainpower. Watch history comes to life as timeless mysteries reveal fresh facts. It’s the past presented like never before!

- Discover how the fearsome, mechanized marvel known as the trebuchet catapulted warfare in different directions in Medieval Siege

- See how ancient Egyptians used nautical experience, ingenuity and unwavering faith to raise 500-ton granite monuments in Pharaoh’s Obelisk

- Unlock secrets behind the massive "moai" statues on Easter Island and learn how this vanished civilization may have carved its way to extinction

- Discover why the intimate luxury palaces of Roman Bath remain such an impressive achievement today

- Return to the Song Dynasty in China Bridge where the revolutionary Rainbow Bridge reveals intricate mysteries of China’s inventive past

Secrets of Lost Empires II Boxed Set [VHS] Specifications

Technophiles of the 21st century can be smug about the advances made in recent years. But modern man doesn't have a monopoly on knowledge; in fact many of the advances made in earlier centuries have been lost to us. How did the Egyptians build their obelisks? How were the Chinese able to build the rainbow bridges? What are the mysteries of the Roman baths? Nova explores these and other ancient engineering feats in its brilliant series Secrets of the Lost Empires II. Using the same techniques as in the first series of Secrets of the Lost Empires, Nova brings together teams of scientists, engineers, and historians to re-create ancient marvels.

The five episodes in this boxed set take you around the world and through time. Medieval Siege explores warfare of yore, as a team attempts to build a trebuchet, a giant weapon used to impregnate fortresses. Easter Island travels to a remote island in the South Pacific where giant human forms, sculptures called moai, dot the landscape. Discover how approximately 900 moai were carved over a period of 500 years by ancient people who had only stone tools hewn from volcanic rock. Pharaoh's Obelisk looks back 3,500 years to the time of Hetshepsut, as a team tries to build the giant stone obelisks that helped the pharaoh control her people. Roman Bath attempts to re-create those infamous places of community and hygiene, despite the lack of blueprints and information. Finally, in China Bridge, experts endeavor to raise a wood-and-bamboo bridge over a river near Suzhou, China. A mixture of science, history, and cultural studies, this series is a delightful exploration into the mysteries of centuries long past. --Jenny Brown

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