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Costume designer Jackie Crier
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has been working since dawn.
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Today, she must transform hundreds
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of extras into pyramid
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builders for a crucial scene.
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Down river
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archaeological advisor Zahi Hawass
:42:20
waits for shooting to start
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with producers Scott Swofford
and Lisa Truitt.
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I take full responsibility
:42:28
for everything bad in the film.
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If anything goes wrong
I will throw Lisa
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Scott and Bruce in the Nile.
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Getting it right can be difficult,
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because just how the Egyptians
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did build the pyramids is still a mystery.
:42:51
We know they devised a system
:42:53
for moving mammoth
chunks of limestone.
:42:55
We know the system was efficient
:42:57
one 5,000-pound stone could be
:42:59
added to a rising mound
every two minutes.
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But what we don't know is how
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they did it without wheels or cranes.
:43:23
They simply do not show
pyramid building anywhere
:43:26
and so what we
are left with
:43:29
are surmises or inferences
:43:30
that we make from the stones
the size of the stones.
:43:34
But you know the rules
of physics haven't changed.
:43:36
We have found sledges.
:43:37
We have found ropes or
fragments of rope.
:43:41
We have found ramps of pyramids.
:43:46
The evidence has an
interesting tale to tell
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but getting the story on film
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requires some distinctly modern tricks.