Season I (3 x 60 min, HD)
Season II (6 x 60 min, HD)
The amazing history behind incredible Ancient Megastructures.
Every Ancient Megastructure represents a pinnacle of human achievement; each has a story behind it demonstrating ingenious solutions to seemingly impossible challenges. From the Great Pyramid to Angkor Wat, every episode chronicles how each astonishing building was constructed, following the story on a number of levels: scientific, engineering and human. These are dramatic epics, full of jeopardy, wrong-turns, and the flashes of inspiration that turned amazing dreams into an even more awesome reality.
A Canada - UK International Treaty Coproduction with Darlow Smithson Productions.
Produced with the assistance of the Rogers Cable Network Fund, the Canadian Film or Video Production Services tax credit and Film Incentive BC in association with National Geographic Channels International and History Television.
Season I Featured clips
The engineering and organisation behind the Great Pyramid of Khufu, which was built to turn a Pharaoh into a god, and helped create the Egyptian empire.
The dramatic story behind the Colosseum in Ancient Rome: the men who created it and the men who fought, and died within it.
Chartres: the most beautiful of all medieval cathedrals. The audacity of the man who dreamed it, and the men who achieved a feat which was thought impossible.