Purdom, Edmund

Uses computer graphics, archival film, reconstructions, and dramatizations to examine significant people, places, and events in the ancient civilizations of Rome and Pompeii, Athens and Greece, Egypt, and the Aztec and Maya empires.

Uses commentary, film footage, and reconstructions to explore the pyramids and cities of Egypt in the time of the pharoahs, looking at the Nile, the pyramids of Giza and Sakkara, mummies, the Sphinx, Memphis, the Temple of Luxor, Ammon at Karnak, and the Left Bank, and discusses aspects of ancient Egyptian society and culture.