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- About the friendship of the Soviet people and Arabs working to build the gigantic Aswan Dam.
- An engineer in an oil company tries to dig to reach the oil in area with a lot of ancient Egyptian tombs. He meets with Hames, the pride of the Nile, and changed his mind about digging in the ancient Valley.
- At the dawn of history, the ancient Egyptians first showed the world how to ... all » build the impossible. In an age before machines, when copper was the strongest metal yet discovered, great Pharaohs like Khufu and Ramses II demonstrated how boundless ambition and vast quantities of human labor could transform limestone and granite into some of the most incredible monuments ever created the spectacular tombs in the Valley of the Kings, the mysterious Sphinx of Giza, the iconic Great Pyramid and more. Uncover the secrets of Ancient Egypt's pharaohs, engineers and architects and watch as cutting-edge computer modeling recreates the stunning monuments these visionaries built. It's an impressive look at the greatest architecture of the greatest civilization in the history of Africa and perhaps the world.
- Ungainly waterwheels and pumps that may have been startling and new in Moses' day, queer, ineffective plows, drawn by camels and oxen, white-sailed fishing craft clustered together on the river like a flock of great gulls, huge pyramids and the ruins of royal temples, impress us forcibly with the strange, half oriental, half barbaric civilization which was the mother of our modern attainment. Best of all are the people, tall Mohammedans, with white hats and flowing robes, on their way to the Hammam Baths, Copts, or Native Christians, splendid looking Bedouins from the desert, and tall, supple native women filling their water jars at the river bank. All this is typical of the Egypt of old. We are no less struck with the evidence these pictures give us that Egypt is something else than a mummified museum of antiquity. Automobiles and street cars are greatly in evidence and palatial tourist steamers plough their way through the muddy waters of the Nile. Typical of modem progress is the great dam at Assouan, a marvel of engineering ingenuity of which exceptionally interesting views are shown. The strange medley of barbarism and civilization shown on this reel gives it an unusual interest that can hardly fall to make it popular.
- The construction of the High Dam at Aswan in Egypt.