
Engineering an Empire is a program on The History Channel that explores the engineering and/or architectural feats that were characteristic of some of the greatest societies on this planet. It is hosted by Peter Weller, famous for his acting role as RoboCop but also a lecturer at Syracuse University, where he completed his Master's in Roman and Renaissance Art. The executive producer is Delores Gavin. The show started as a documentary about the engineering feats of Ancient Rome and later evolved into a series. It originally ran for one full season of weekly episodes.
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Air Date: 2005-09-13
See the engineering feats that brought Rome to power in the ancient world. From Julius Caesar and the end of the Roma...
Air Date: 2006-10-09
From the year 3000 BC all the way to around 1212 BC, the Egyptians accomplished the impossibe and built the unimagina...
Air Date: 2006-10-16
See the engineering feats that gave rise to the Greek empire.
Air Date: 2006-10-23
See the engineering feats of Greece under Alexander the Great.
Air Date: 2006-10-30
In less than 200 years the Aztec's transformed themselves from a band of wandering nomads to the greatest civilizatio...
Air Date: 2006-11-06
Carthage, a remarkable city-state that dominated the Mediterranean for over 600 years, harnessed their extensive reso...
Air Date: 2006-11-13
At the height of its glory, this mysterious civilization ruled a territory of 125,000 square miles across parts of Gu...
Air Date: 2006-11-20
At the height of its power the Russian Empire stretched across 15 times zones, incorporated nearly 160 different ethn...
Air Date: 2006-11-27
At its pinnacle, the British Empire spanned every continent and covered one quarter of the Earth's land mass. Through...
Air Date: 2006-12-04
The Persian Empire was one of the most mysterious civilizations in the ancient world. Persia became an empire under t...
Air Date: 2006-12-11
For over 4,000 years the world's greatest empires have come and gone--only China has survived the test of time. Centu...
Air Date: 2006-12-18
Centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, French kings struggled for control against the church and the aristocra...
Air Date: 2006-12-25
As much of the world descended into the dark ages after the fall of Rome, one civilization shone brilliantly: the Byz...
Air Date: 2007-01-08
After the fall of Rome, Italy fell into a dark sleep, and wasn't reawakened until the 11th century. Autonomous city-s...