NOVA (1974)
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Stacy Keach as Narrator
Episodes 8
Secrets of Lost Empires: Medieval Siege (1)
In the film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, a team of timber framers and other specialists design, build, and fire a pair of trebuchets, a devastating engine of war popular in the Middle Ages.
Read MoreSecrets of Lost Empires: Pharaoh's Obelisk (2)
In the film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, NOVA brings together a team of Egyptologists, engineers, stonemasons, and timber framers to probe the mystery of how the ancients shaped, transported, and erected their elegant obelisks.
Read MoreSecrets of Lost Empires: Easter Island (3)
The film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, showcases the efforts of a team of archeologists, engineers, and other experts to transport an Easter Island moai, or carved stone monolith, overland and successfully raise it onto a pedestal.
Read MoreSecrets of Lost Empires: Roman Bath (4)
In the film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, an international crew of archeologists, engineers, and historians designs, builds, and tests a functioning Roman bath in the Turkish countryside.
Read MoreSecrets of Lost Empires: China Bridge (5)
The film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, documents a 1999 effort by a NOVA-assembled crew of scholars and timber framers to design and build a Chinese bridge known only from an ancient painting.
Read MoreDeath Star
The program probes the deep mysteries of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful celestial explosions since the big bang.
Read MoreThe Mummy Who Would Be King
Could a mummy found in Niagara Falls be the remains of a long-lost Pharaoh?
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