Egypt - Resurrection Machine, Episode 2

Designed as stepping stones to a happy afterlife, the great pyramids of Egypt were not isolated phenomena but rather representations of a religious and architectural evolution which stemmed from a tradition of elaborate tomb-building. By placing a symbolic “Mound of Creation” made of sand and stone above the tomb, the Egyptians believed that their kings would continually be resurrected and it was this belief that eventually led to the development of the Pyramid. The Resurrection machine, which features the great pyramids of Giza, looks at the development of these awe-inspiring structures and culminates with a study of an extraordinary resurgence of pyramid-building some two thousand years later in Sudan, a place known to the Egyptians as the Kingdom of Kush.