architecture, ancient

Explores the history and architecture of the ancient world and featuring graphics, computer animation, and location footage. Visits the great monuments, pagodas, and temples of Buddhist Japan and considers the Samurai warriors and their code of Bushido which stresses honor, self-discipline, bravery, and simple living, as it examines the traditional society of Japan and its emphasis on balance, order, and calm.

Using superb 3D graphics, this program highlights China's architectural achievements including The Great Wall of China, the terracotta army of the First Chinese Emperor, a Chinese village from seven thousand years ago and Beijing's Forbidden City.

Explores two competing concepts of how the ancient Romans were able to construct a canopy over the Colosseum.

Presents full-color illustrations depicting the ten ancient structures around the world including the Great Pyramid in Egypt, the statue of Zeus in Greece, the Great Wall of China, the hanging gardens of Babylon, Roman Colosseum, and more.

Recreates the seven wonders of the ancient world as they originally appeared, and tells the stories of who built them, and how and why they were constructed.

Australian soldier Jack West Jr. leads a team of operatives from a coalition of seven non-superpower nations in a quest to find the pieces of the Golden Capstone for the Great Pyramid at Giza which legend claims will prevent worldwide flooding and solar damage during the Tartaus Rotation--a solar event that occurs once every 4,500 years--and grant the person who places the Capstone on the pyramid absolute power over Earth for the next one thousand years.

Presents over six hundred alphabetized entries on ancient Egyptian structures, including their design and construction, and includes maps, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and three hundred black-and-white illustrations.

Illuminates how the ancient Greeks were able to realize groundbreaking and unique engineering innovations such as The Palace of Knossos, the Theatre of Epidaurus, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Lost City of Atlantis, and the Parthenon. Also includes two addtional features.

The stories and secrets behind ancient Rome's man-made wonders. State-of-the-art digital effects recreate Rome's wonders of architecture and engineering as they appeared centuries ago.

Describes the probable method of construction for such unusual structures of the ancient world as the tower of Babel, the pyramids, Easter Island statues, Zimbabwe, and several others.