NOVA S27E18 · Secrets of Lost Empires: China Bridge (5)

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The film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, documents a 1999 effort by a NOVA-assembled crew of scholars and timber framers to design and build a Chinese bridge known only from an ancient painting.

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