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View our inventory of outstanding videos on a wide variety of archaeological topics. We support and promote PBS documentaries. Many of the videos presented are therefore affiliated with Nova, Secrets of the Dead, and PBS.
Video: Alien from Earth
Tue, May 17, 2011
The shaking finds on the island of Flores continue to both fascinate and puzzle the scientific community. The search continues for more evidence that will either solidify or question current theories about the "hobbit".
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Video: Aztec Massacre
Sun, May 15, 2011
A mass grave at the archaeological site of Zultapec in Mexico produces some fascinating revelations about events during the Spanish Conquest.
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NOVA ScienceNOW: Lice and Human Evolution
Sun, Mar 20, 2011
Who would say that the study of lice could have anything to do with human evolution? Scientists tell you how this is possible, and what they have found.
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Seeing With New Eyes
Wed, Mar 02, 2011
Ancient documents ravaged by time and events and unreadable to the naked eye come to life under multi-spectral imaging, providing us with an intimate glimpse of the personal lives of ancient people and revealing writings unknown to scholars until now.
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Video: Herculaneum Uncovered
Wed, Jan 26, 2011
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., Pompeii was not the only ancient Roman city that fell victim to its pyroclastic blast. The city of Herculaneum shared its fate.
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Video: The Bible's Buried Secrets
Tue, Jan 25, 2011
Archaeology and biblical research intersect to shed light on the accuracy and authenticity of the biblical narrative, the associated historical events, and the questions surrounding who wrote the Bible and when they wrote it.
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Featured Video: China's Terracotta Warriors
Mon, May 16, 2011
The great archaeological discovery of ancient China's terracotta warriors has proven to be far greater than the sum of its parts.
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The Lost Temples of India
Mon, Feb 28, 2011
A visual journey about the great, mysterious and beautiful ancient temples of India.
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Cracking the Maya Code
Fri, Jan 28, 2011
The amazing story of the efforts to decipher and understand the beautiful but mysterious hieroglyphic writing of the ancient Maya, as visually retold by this NOVA documentary.
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Lost Ships of Rome
Fri, Jan 28, 2011
Follow along on several underwater expeditions deep below the surface of the Mediterranean Sea to uncover the remains of ancient Roman shipwrecks and the information they reveal about ancient Rome.
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Video of the Month: Sinking Atlantis
Tue, Jan 25, 2011
This fascinating Secrets of the Dead documentary explores the search by a team of scientists and scholars for the cause of the mysterious sudden decline and disappearance of the great Minoan civilization.
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Secrets of the Parthenon
Mon, Jan 17, 2011
A vast team of scientists, architects, archaeologists and other experts collaborate in a race against time to restore the classic beauty of what is arguably the Western World's greatest architectural masterpiece, the Parthenon. Along the way, they rediscover the amazing knowledge and skill that the ancients used to create and build the original structure. This Nova documentary far exceeds the quality of any film ever made about this great ancient symbol of artistic and architectural perfection.
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Lost Treasures of Tibet
Mon, Dec 13, 2010
Few are aware that an astonishing array of architectural and artistic masterpieces are on the verge of extinction in the Nepal region of Mustang. This video is a visual exploration of this issue and the society that forms its context -- a society that continues to function as it did 500 years ago.
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Central America - The Burden of Time
Mon, Dec 06, 2010
This moving visual presentation makes it clear that the ancient world east of the American continents had no monopoly on the rudiments of great civilization.
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The Ape That Took Over The World
Mon, Dec 06, 2010
The story of an amazing new discovery that was thought to rewrite scholarly thinking about human origins, as related through this 4-part play-list of videos.
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Egypt - The Habit of Civilization
Mon, Dec 06, 2010
Michael Wood makes it easy to see why ancient Egypt still stands today as the world's first "great nation".
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China - The Mandate of Heaven
Sun, Dec 05, 2010
Director Michael Wood relates the essential elements that made China one of the earliest and greatest world civilizations, and how it impacted the Western world.
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The Barbarians
Sun, Dec 05, 2010
Were the Greeks and Romans really barbarians as the title of this video suggests? A more likely descriptor would be "On the Shoulders of Giants", for they achieved their greatness by borrowing and building upon the achievements and cultures of the great civilizations to their east.
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India - The Empire of the Spirit
Sun, Dec 05, 2010
One of the earliest of the world's great civilizations, Director Michael Wood takes us on a journey through India's spiritual history.
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Iraq: Cradle of Civilization
Sun, Dec 05, 2010
The beginnings of civilization in Mesopotamia is documented through film in this visual presentation by Michael Wood.
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Researched and written by Spanish colonial coin expert Carol Tedesco, the succinct, 40 page Treasure Coins of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha and the Santa Margarita answers all the most frequently asked questions about the fascinating and “most coveted and widely traded money on earth,” including what the coins look like when first discovered, the meanings of the various markings, how they are cleaned, conserved and graded, what they were worth in the 17th century, and the most up-to-date information on the names and periods of office of the men who made them. To order, see www.lostgalleons.com.
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