The Gift of the Nile
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert.... Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies....
And on the pedestal these words appear:
*My name is Ozymandias, king ofkings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
(SHELLEY)
4: Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair
In a series of six programmes, Barry Cunliffe traces the development of a civilisation which flourished on the banks of the Nile - one of the greatest civilisations known to man and one which has fascinated Europeans for hundreds of years.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT. BBCBristol