De retour de guerre, le victorieux pharaon Khéops entreprend la construction d'une pyramide appelée à devenir l'inviolable tombeau où il pourra reposer pour l'éternité, entouré de ses fabuleuses richesses. Il conclut un marché avec son prisonnier, Vashtar, un éminent architecte. Khéops accordera la liberté à tout son peuple si l'architecte accepte de concevoir pour lui un monument grandiose et impénétrable, parfaitement digne de sa royauté. Cependant, Vashtar devra mourir le jour même du décès de Khéops, pour que les secrets de la pyramide ne soient jamais découverts et qu'il puisse reposer dans sa dernière demeure sans craindre les profanateurs de sépultures...
00:00Out of the mists of time, out of the eternal sands, out of the living rock, out of the soul and sinew of thousands upon thousands of men,
00:13it rises from the desert's floor as the mightiest monument ever erected to the glory of one man, to inspire all men for all time.
00:30Egypt, 50 centuries ago, when her culture and civilization flourished in a setting of unequaled pomp and grandeur,
00:58when her proud legions had conquered all the world and plundered its treasure to feed the insatiable ambition of the greatest of all pharaohs, Khufu the Magnificent,
01:08a man of superhuman strength and courage, yet consumed by a fear so strange that he tried to conceal it beneath a massive man-made mountain of stone.
01:20On the sands of the desert, you will raise a pyramid, a structure greater than any other in the world.
01:28This pyramid shall be my resting place for the second life.
01:32From every corner of the land came teeming multitudes of workers, and then slaves and generations of slaves, to wrest the rock from the unyielding earth.
01:42While armies of wretched humanity suffered and died to haul their colossal burden across the desert to the river Nile,
01:49for the final journey to the mighty ramps that flanked the pyramid.
01:53But while three million stones were being welded together by time and toil, in the golden halls of the palace, another ageless story was being lived,
02:03by people whose lust and greed, love and hate, are forever embedded in every rock of the great pyramid.
02:11Vashtar, the captive who held the key to the mystery of the ages.
02:16Senta, who traded a pharaoh's ransom for the love of a slave girl.
02:21Nelifer, the faithless hostage whose beauty masked her sinful treachery.
02:26Hamar, who plotted time's strangest vengeance.
02:30And Khufu, the man who thought that he could conquer eternity.
02:41Don't ever do that again.
02:47Get me!
02:48What are you trying to tell me?
02:50The Queen Nyle must die.
02:53No. No, Nelifer.
02:54Look at me, Trenner.
02:55I'm afraid to. Afraid of what I see in your face.
02:58Look at me and choose.
03:00Either I am yours, and you help me, or I go on without you.
03:08Which is it to be?
03:11Why do you come and see me when the pharaoh is gone?
03:15Answer me!
03:16Oh, by the god, you shall answer to pharaoh when he returns.
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