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Egypt birthplace of one of the
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oldest most
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powerful and longest lasting
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civilizations on
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Earth this spectacular aerial
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Journey with privileged access to
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incredible
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sites will show how the Magnificent
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achievements of the ancients
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helped shape the Egypt of
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today flying over this country's vast
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and varied
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Landscapes our Bird's eyee view reveals
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how generations of
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Egyptians battled harsh terrain and
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scorching
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temperatures to build a nation like no
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other
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Egypt covering nearly 400,000 square
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miles and home to almost 100 million
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people it's the biggest and most
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populous country in the Arab world
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life here has always been a
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challenge 97% of the terrain is Harsh
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arid
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desert so how did the ancient Egyptians
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build such a powerful
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civilization a bird's eye view of the
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country reveals the answer
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the mighty River
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Nile at over 4,000 mil it's the longest
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river in the
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world without it the ancient Egyptians
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may never have founded an Empire or
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built magnificent
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monuments the most iconic of the Ancient
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Wonders lies 8 mil from the center of
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Egypt's capital
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Cairo from the air the scale of the
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engineering is
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incredible made of an estimated 10
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million tons of stone these are some of
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the largest pyramids ever
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built the oldest and biggest is the
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Great Pyramid of Giza
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completed over 4 and a half thousand
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years ago it's formed from more than 2
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million Sandstone
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blocks each block weighs more than a
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car created as a tomb for the Pharaoh
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kufu it's the only one of the Seven
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Wonders of the Ancient World
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to survive to the present
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day at 480 ft High it remained the
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tallest structure on Earth for 3 and a
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half thousand
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years the Pyramids of Giza Fascinate
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American archaeologist Mark ler so much
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he's dedicated four Decades of his
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career to unlocking their secrets
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well from that very first sight of the
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Great Pyramid of kufu the Giza Pyramids
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have basically been my life I spent 46
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years actually studying the
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pyramids who are the people who built
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them what do we know about them what do
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we know about how they did
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it people from all over the world come
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to Marvel at the pyramid's Majesty
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yet it's the remains of more modest
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structures nearby that unlock how the
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Ancients built these Mighty
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tombs in order to create pyramids on
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such a gigantic scale they had to create
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a whole infrastructure we have found the
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footprint of that
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infrastructure an aerial view reveals a
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huge labor force was once brought here
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for construction
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so what we have found in the so-called
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lost city the pyramid sometimes called
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the workers's village it's about 13
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hectars we have found their bakeries and
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their workshops their houses their grain
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silos for feeding the
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people but it's only part of a much
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vaster City that existed at the foot of
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the pyramid's
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plateau Mark thinks 20,000 workers once
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lived
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here they quarried the 5.7 million tons
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of sandstone needed to build the Great
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pyramid
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alone from the air the view of the
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neighboring pyramid of cfre reveals
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there is another Enigma to
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solve its Summit is capped with smooth
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stones that once encased the entire
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structure it's evidence that the Great
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Pyramid once looked very different
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the Great Pyramid of kufu stood complete
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covered with polished white
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Limestone that must have been blinding
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when it reflected the
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Sun the nearest source for the brilliant
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Limestone was in chura 8 m away on the
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other side of the
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Nile so how did the Ancients transport
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tons of this Stone across miles of
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desert and a mighty
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River Mark believes the sloping ground
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in front of this Temple unlocks the
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mystery it's a
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basin the remains of a huge Harbor and
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Canal complex filled by flood water that
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the Ancients used to Ferry Stone to the
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construction site
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we have evidence that the pyramid
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Builders use the 7 m rise annually of
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the N flood as a huge hydraulic lift to
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bring blocks as high as they could and
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as close as they could to the pyramid
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Plateau it's almost what you don't see
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here that is even more impressive than
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the pyramids
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themselves the the Nile made ancient
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Egyptian civilization
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possible it wasn't just essential for
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transport but for food
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too and many Egyptians still depend on
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it today to
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survive it's early morning on the island
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of elephantine in southern Egypt
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Father and Son Yousef and Karim Muhammad
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are preparing to go fishing as they do
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every
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day my family has lived on the Nile for
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more than 100
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years my father was a
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fisherman and my father's father was a
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fisherman he taught him and then my
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father taught me
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now I'm teaching my son Karim like my
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father taught
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me Yousef and kareim are part of the
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Nubian
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Community they're descendants of some of
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the first people to settle in this area
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of the Nile Valley over 7,000 years
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ago for nobian the Nile is their life
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they've always lived around the Nile
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flooding caused by the building of a dam
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further south at Awan displaced many
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Nubians from their
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land so for Yousef it's important to
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pass the old traditions onto his son
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like how to catch fish the Nubian
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way you knows the big fish are in deep
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water on the other side of the
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river to get there Father and Son must
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cross a mile of choppy and congested
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Waters in their tiny
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rowboat all the while dodging
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fairies and fast wh sailed
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Fuca a collision here would spell
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disaster
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Nubian fisherman Yousef and his
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six-year-old son Kareem must cross one
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of the most congested points on the
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Nile their livelihood depends on
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catching the bigger fish in the deeper
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water with perfect timing Yousef drives
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the boat through the gaps in the traffic
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safely on the other
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side 6-year-old Kareem must keep the
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robo steady against the strong
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current his father uses an ancient
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technique to maximize his catch
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when you hit the water once or twice the
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fish swim deeper and flee into the
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net fish don't like
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sound these fish are tilapia a staple of
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the Egyptian d since the time of the
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Pharaohs after an hour youf and kareim
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have caught all the fish they need for
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tonight's
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supper they rode the mile back to their
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Village on elephantine
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Island Cooks dust the fish with flour
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and fry them as part of a traditional
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Nubian recipe
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the Nile means everything because it's
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where I
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fish it makes life possible the Nile is
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my whole
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life for thousands of years Egyptian
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civilizations have relied on the River
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Nile for
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survival as well as providing food the
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rich silt from its Waters allowed
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Farmers to grow crops in the
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desert German archaeologist Joanna
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seagull is also heading to elephantine
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Island her work as excavation field
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director here is revealing the Nile's
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importance to the ancient
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Egyptians a bird's eyee view of the
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Island's southern tip shows the layout
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of a 5,000 year old town
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this was one of the first settlements on
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this part of the
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Nile the Nile represented a life source
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for ancient Egyptians it was one of the
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most important things in their life they
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got food and water fertile soil trade
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connections they got everything from the
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Nile before dams controlled the river's
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height Monsoon Reigns over Ethiopia to
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the south of Egypt caused annual
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floods as the rising Waters burst their
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Banks fertile silt was deposited across
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the flood Plains the further the waters
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spread the more Farmland could be
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cultivated the ancient Egyptians
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developed a system to forecast the
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perfect
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flood the instrument they invented
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became known as a NYL
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ometer the chiseled markings on this
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passageway gauged the height of the
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flood and foretold if crops would
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flourish or
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fail here at elephanttine the flood
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arrived first so to measure here would
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be a prediction for measuring the hide
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all along the Nile at least the ancient
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Egyptians hoped
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so when the nyom recorded the optimal
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water level the fields would be covered
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with enough silt to produce a Bountiful
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Harvest thousands of years later and the
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Nile Remains the lifeblood of Egypt the
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Nile provides still drinking water it
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provides energy it still provides
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fertile soil and so supports
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agriculture without denial there would
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be no living
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here today 96% of the
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population lives on the 3% of cultivated
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land irrigated by the
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Nile away from these areas
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the landscape is very
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different almost 375,000 square miles of
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Egypt is inhospitable
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Desert some of the harshest terrain lies
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in the Sinai Peninsula in the east of
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the
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country rainfall in this part of Egypt
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can be as little as 1 in a year
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from the air it's clear the Region's dry
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rocky soil makes intensive agriculture
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almost
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impossible yet there's a group of people
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who have made the Sinai their home for
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Millennia kudra ID morid has lived in
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this remote Village her entire life
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it's very difficult to find
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food there is little rain and little
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vegetation for the animals to
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eat kudra is
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bedwin the majority of this ancient
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people migrated here from the Arabian
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Peninsula almost 2,000 years
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ago in recent decades government
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policies aim to increase security and
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promote tourism in Sinai have denied
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some bedwin access to services and
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eroded their nomadic
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Traditions many have left to find work
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in Egypt's
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cities kudra Embraces life here in the
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desert as her ancestors did before
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her this desert teaches you to
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exercise coming going collecting wood
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fetching water keeping moving if you
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stay inside your body ages you must walk
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be active and stay
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healthy kudra is a
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widow to keep herself and her goats
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alive she must find vegetation in one of
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the most arid places on Earth
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high up on Egypt's arid Sinai Peninsula
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bedwin shepherdess kudra ID morid is
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taking her goats deep into the desert on
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a quest for
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grass kudra relies on wisdom passed down
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through generations of bedwin Nomads to
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read the
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landscape a bir ey view reveals gullies
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snaking across the mountainous
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terrain kudra knows scarce rain water
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channeled just beneath the surface is
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enough to sustain plant
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life there's a lot of grazing
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here if they are happy I'm
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happy while the goats eat KRA exploits
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another of the desert's scant
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resources this desert plant is called
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agram you pick it crush it and add
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water you can wash your hands and
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clothes with
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it it's soap a nice smelling
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soap it's enough grazing for
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today tomorrow kudra will have to find
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other plants
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I do this work every
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day I've been here since the day I got
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married I've never lived anywhere else
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the desert is my
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life the bedwin have made the desert
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their
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home yet the Ancients used these
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wastelands for a very different purpose
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the Western desert was where the
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Pharaohs were buried in preparation for
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the
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afterlife Royal tombs like the step
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pyramid of josa built up to
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4,700 years
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ago would be filled with Priceless
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Treasures despite the Pharaohs believing
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their pyramids were
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impregnable these structures became a
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magnet for ancient grave
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robbers so 3 and a half thousand years
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ago the Pharaohs created a giant secret
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tomb within a remote Desert
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Valley from the 16th century BCE at
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least 63 Royal tombs were built here
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over a period of 500 years
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the Valley of the Kings is located
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beneath a symbolic pyramid-shaped
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Mountain the Pharaohs hoped this
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inconspicuous sight would be safe from
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grave
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robbers originally the entrances to the
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tombs were sealed and hidden under sand
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and
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rocks now a network of paths leads the
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way
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in conservator Lori Wong is responsible
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for the preservation of the site's most
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famous
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attraction the tomb of Tuton
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kman totin common its Fame is due to the
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fact that it was a tomb that was
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discovered with its grave Goods almost
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completely
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intact and that's rare because almost
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every other tomb had been
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looted Tuton kman was just 9 years old
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when he became ruler of
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Egypt the boy king's tomb was discovered
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in 1922 by British egyptologist Howard
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Carter inside he found
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Treasures including Tuton carman's gold
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death mask
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his gold and silver Throne encrusted
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with precious
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stones and more than 5,000 other
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Priceless
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artifacts 1 and a half million people a
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year come to the Valley of the
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Kings now the huge volume of visitors is
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taking its
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toll visitors have dust on their
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clothing on their shoes
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and they come into the tomb and that
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dust can actually cement itself onto the
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painting making it very difficult to
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remove in a safe
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manner Lor's team has installed a
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ventilation system to help reduce dust
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levels inside the
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tomb the cleaner air will ensure the
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preservation of the boy King's resting
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place for generations to come
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we want other people to be able to
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appreciate the tomb as much as we have
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to have worked in a tomb like to and
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common has been just a wonderful
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experience Egypt's Mighty pharaohs left
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their Mark throughout the
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country yet not all monuments visible
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from the air are shrines to past
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rulers these are towers for domesticated
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pigeons the birds have been farmed in
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Egypt for thousands of
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years ancient sources suggest they were
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consumed on important feast
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days today pigeons are not only bread to
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eat they're bread to compete
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in cairo's neighborhood of Gia dozens of
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passionate Pigeon breeders are in
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constant competition with one
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another visible from the air precarious
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wooden structures like this rise high
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above the
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rooftops these are called rear and
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they're the inner city answer to Pigeon
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Towers some are large enough to house
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over 300
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Birds Hassan Muhammad Hussein calls
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himself the pigeon ruler of
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Gia I built my first Rea 23 years
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ago I built a small one 9t by 9t out of
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draw on the
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roof it was a long process I made the
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higher and bigger until I build the one
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I have
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now Hassan is one of 2 million pigeon
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fanciers in
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Egypt in competitions breeders take
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their best Birds to a central location
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and release them
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together the goal is to both both guide
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their own Birds home and lure as many of
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their Rivals pigeons as they
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can the breeder with the most birds at
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the end of the event is the
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winner every competition is different
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like a football match catching pigeons
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is the equivalent of scoring goals
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Hassan meets his opponent here in the
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middle of old
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Cairo he must win today if he wants to
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retain his title pigeon ruler of
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Galia in the historic heart of
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Cairo Hassan Muhammad Hussein is taking
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on Rival kouto Adam in a pigeon Race
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Across the
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capital both competitors are ready to
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release their
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Birds 40 pigeons climb high above
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Cairo in just a few minutes they'll be
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within range of their
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coups both competitors must try and
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guide home all their pigeons and as many
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of their Rivals as
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possible whoever captures the most birds
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wins soon after arriving back at his
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Tower Hassan spots the pigeons
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I'm going to call them in and raise a
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flag to see which are the competitors
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pigeons Hassan waves and whistles to
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entice them to his
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Coupe as the pigeons
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land he reads their tags to check who
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they belong to
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all Hassan's pigeons have returned
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home his competitor kouto Adam hasn't
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lured any
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away I think that black one is one of
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K's
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Birds but Hassan
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has with another Victory to his name
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Hassan retains his
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title until the next contest
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I'm so happy I'm so pleased that I
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won the Egyptians relationship with
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pigeons is just one Legacy from the time
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of the
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Pharaohs the ancient ruler vast
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monuments stand Testament to their immen
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power these were no ordinary Kings they
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proclaimed themselves
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gods and they expected their subjects to
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worship them even after they
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died nowhere is this more visible then
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on the West Bank of the Nile across the
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river from loaw
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over 2,000 years pharaohs built Mory
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temples here to commemorate their
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Reigns and as centers for their Eternal
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veneration their true scale only becomes
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evident from the
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air it's Dawn and setting a course for
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the Mory temples is Baha Ahmed an
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experienced hot air balloon
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pilot Baha flies at first light when the
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air is cool and wind currents are most
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predictable knowing wind patterns here
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is critical because the temples are
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located directly beneath jaged
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mountains the biggest challenge flying
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balloons
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is the wind shear and turbulence close
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to the
00:31:02
mountains so we take that into
00:31:06
consideration and try to keep far away
00:31:08
so there is no danger to the balloon or
00:31:11
the
00:31:17
passengers as Baha tracks a course away
00:31:20
from the mountains he guides his balloon
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towards Egypt's most famous Mory
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structure
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the Temple of hatchepsut is carved into
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the side of a
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mountain it was built by one of Egypt's
00:31:36
very few female
00:31:40
pharaohs to gain acceptance as ruler she
00:31:43
ordered her Temple to be bigger and
00:31:45
grander than those of all the male
00:31:47
pharaohs before
00:31:55
her this Temple is one of the most
00:31:57
beautiful things to see from the
00:32:00
balloon looking at the design of this
00:32:02
Temple it is more than I can describe
00:32:05
from the balloon it looks very
00:32:10
beautiful as the air warms up Baja must
00:32:14
now negotiate the potentially
00:32:15
treacherous
00:32:16
winds to visit a shrine to the greatest
00:32:20
Pharaoh ever to rule Egypt
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above the West Bank of
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luxa Baja ahmed's balloon approaches a
00:32:37
50,000 squ ft Temple
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complex dedicated to Egypt's greatest
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Pharaoh this is the
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ramum the Mory Temple of Egypt's most
00:32:52
prolific Monument Builder Ramsey II
00:32:59
constructed in the 13th century bcee and
00:33:02
covering the area of 47 tennis
00:33:05
courts in its day it was one of the
00:33:07
largest Mory temples in
00:33:13
Egypt it took 20 years to
00:33:16
complete beautiful this is amazing look
00:33:20
at this RS is a
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second within the ram mum lie the Fallen
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remains of a giant statue of rames
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himself originally it would have risen
00:33:38
to the height of a six-story
00:33:40
building and weighed around 1,000
00:33:46
tons it reminded everyone he was more
00:33:49
than a
00:33:51
man he was a god
00:33:58
as the desert monuments give way to Lush
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Farmland
00:34:02
below it's time for baraha to find a
00:34:05
field to touch
00:34:09
down when the balloon goes up you don't
00:34:11
know where you are going to land and
00:34:14
it's a challenge to land somewhere safe
00:34:15
for the
00:34:18
passengers flying balloons every day is
00:34:20
a new
00:34:25
day the pharaoh's may have declared
00:34:28
themselves
00:34:30
Gods but their powers were not
00:34:35
Eternal after ruling Egypt for 3,000
00:34:39
years they were conquered by the
00:34:43
Romans in time belief in their many
00:34:46
pagan gods gave way to one Christian
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God almost 10 million Christ Ians live
00:34:58
in Egypt
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today one of their most important sites
00:35:03
is Mount
00:35:08
Si according to the Bible this mountain
00:35:12
was where God appeared as a burning
00:35:15
bush and where Moses received the Ten
00:35:21
Commandments in the 6th Century CE Roman
00:35:25
Emperor Justinian the ordered a place of
00:35:28
worship to be built marking this most
00:35:30
sacred of
00:35:33
sights the result was St Catherine's
00:35:37
Monastery the oldest continuously
00:35:39
inhabited Monastery in the
00:35:45
world resident monk father macaros left
00:35:49
his home in Denver Colorado to live and
00:35:52
work here
00:35:58
historically uh there are very few
00:36:00
places in the world today that reflect
00:36:04
the life of the Empire which created
00:36:08
this Monastery nowhere else in the world
00:36:11
can anybody find or see an institution
00:36:15
like
00:36:16
this the centerpiece of St Katherine's
00:36:19
Monastery is the great
00:36:23
Basilica this is where daily prayers
00:36:25
have been held for500 100
00:36:30
years today Father macarius must make
00:36:33
sure that everything is ready for the
00:36:35
morning
00:36:38
service there has been an
00:36:41
uninterrupted succession of prayers here
00:36:43
since the mid 6th Century no one in the
00:36:47
world can claim that anywhere except
00:36:51
here life here means following strict
00:36:54
rules and turning your back on modern
00:36:57
company efforts to live in the
00:37:00
wilderness with the chapel now ready the
00:37:03
monks can commence 8 hours of daily
00:37:06
prayers in a monastery that is uniquely
00:37:09
connected to their
00:37:15
faith Moses came here God himself came
00:37:20
to be able to be here and and looking at
00:37:23
one face of this Mountain from
00:37:25
here say to yourself this is really
00:37:28
important I should I I need to be here
00:37:30
for
00:37:38
this preserving thousands of years of
00:37:41
History has made Egypt the country it is
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today beside the Giza Pyramids it's a
00:37:50
Race Against Time to fill a new $1
00:37:53
billion museum with the country's
00:37:55
greatest treasures
00:37:58
that means transporting fragile and
00:38:00
Priceless artifacts across one of the
00:38:03
world's most congested
00:38:12
cities in Egypt's capital Cairo plans
00:38:17
are underway to bring thousands of years
00:38:19
of History Under One
00:38:24
Roof for more than a century the world
00:38:27
largest collection of ancient Egyptian
00:38:29
Treasures has been housed in
00:38:32
Cairo here at the Egyptian
00:38:36
Museum it's the home of the world famous
00:38:38
relics from the tomb of Tuton
00:38:43
Kon today the neoclassical building is
00:38:47
outdated and too small to display many
00:38:50
of its
00:38:56
items so any Engineers are building a
00:38:58
brand new Museum to accommodate 5
00:39:01
million tourists who visit each
00:39:11
year its scale is
00:39:16
epic when it's finished the grand
00:39:19
Egyptian museum will cover an area of
00:39:22
over 5.2 million square ft
00:39:27
this will be the largest museum devoted
00:39:29
to one civilization on the
00:39:34
planet before it opens thousands of
00:39:37
artifacts must be transported by Road on
00:39:40
an 11 Mile journey to their new home on
00:39:43
the outskirts of
00:39:48
Cairo and that's a
00:39:51
problem Cairo is one of the world's most
00:39:54
congested cities
00:39:57
tens of thousands of road traffic
00:39:59
accidents are reported every year and
00:40:03
congestion costs the country an
00:40:04
estimated $50
00:40:10
billion hitting the road today is this
00:40:13
3,000-year-old statue of Ramsey II and
00:40:17
the goddess
00:40:19
anat Ramsey is known as the great due
00:40:23
partly to his huge building projects
00:40:28
director of restoration and transporting
00:40:30
Antiquities ASA zidan must ensure safe
00:40:35
passage it's impossible to put a value
00:40:38
on this
00:40:39
statue for Egyptians it means
00:40:42
civilization culture Heritage and honor
00:40:46
ancient Egyptian civilization is
00:40:52
priceless aca's teen painstakingly wraps
00:40:55
the monument in a protective material
00:40:57
before its
00:41:04
Journey Ramsey will be transported
00:41:07
across Cairo to his new home by driver
00:41:10
Zacharia
00:41:13
Muhammad I feel proud to be transporting
00:41:16
such important
00:41:17
pieces I also feel
00:41:19
afraid because if anything were to
00:41:22
happen to any of these art
00:41:24
facts I would be devastated
00:41:31
to ensure Ramsey's safe delivery
00:41:34
Zacharia has called in
00:41:38
help four police cars and a Special
00:41:41
Forces Unit will escort the mighty
00:41:53
pharaoh to prevent the statue toppling
00:41:56
off his truck
00:41:58
Zacharia must try and maintain a
00:42:00
constant speed of 12
00:42:02
mph towards the grand Egyptian
00:42:14
museum after a 10 60-minute Journey
00:42:17
Zacharia and Ramsey arrive
00:42:25
unscathed I always feel nervous while
00:42:27
driving I feel especially stressed
00:42:30
carrying something of such value to
00:42:36
Egyptians when I arrive at the Grand
00:42:38
Egyptian museum I feel relieved that it
00:42:41
has got here
00:42:46
safely the statue will soon be
00:42:50
unpacked and installed on the new
00:42:52
Museum's grand staircase
00:42:58
I will feel extremely proud to see the
00:43:01
grand Egyptian museum finally open and
00:43:04
visitors coming to see all the
00:43:06
Antiquities that we have transported so
00:43:10
carefully I hope we have done something
00:43:13
that will be
00:43:25
remembered flying over Egypt our bird's
00:43:29
eye view reveals how this proud Nation
00:43:32
continues to embrace its unique
00:43:38
past from the air it's clear how the
00:43:41
Ancients stamped their mark across this
00:43:43
harsh and inhospitable
00:43:48
landscape and how some Lifestyles here
00:43:51
have barely changed for thousands of
00:43:53
years
00:43:57
in this land of the Pharaohs the ancient
00:44:00
and modern continue to live side by side
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