00:00Long before the pharaohs built their tombs, this land was alive.
00:04Rivers once cut through the red hills.
00:07Acacia trees shaded the wadis.
00:10Stripes of green crossed the desert, drawing antelope and gazelle to their roots.
00:15But that world began to change, not with war or conquest, but with stone.
00:20For thousands of years, Egypt's eastern desert held within it the bones of empires.
00:26Granite, porphyry, alabaster, quartzite, the colors of eternity.
00:32This is not only the story of ancient craftsmanship.
00:35It's the story of how the hunger for greatness left behind wounds that never healed.
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