The Road to the Pyramids

The Road to the Pyramids

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S1 E1: How did the Egyptians, over the course of only a few hundred years, grow from primitive farmers into empire ruling pyramid builders? Professor Joann Fletcher is looking for the building blocks of the Egyptian civilization. On the journey, she discovers how the first writing was used to calculate taxes and explores one of the earliest stone structures on Earth - Egypt's first pyramid.