Archaeology
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- T1 E1 - The Fall of the MayaWatch on supported devices7 de abril de 201922 minTwenty-five years ago, the ancient Mayans were thought to be a mysterious and peaceful people governed by astronomer-priests. Today, researchers reveal stories of Mayan blood sacrifices as they uncover a world so foreign as to defy our understanding of it.Freevee (con anuncios)
- T1 E2 - The Death March of De SotoWatch on supported devices7 de abril de 201922 minRomantic visions of the Explorer Hernando de Soto continue to celebrate the conquistador's arrival in North America 450 years ago as one of the most important events in the history of mankind. But archaeology tells a darker story, a story of death and destruction from the Gulf Coast to the mouth of the Mississippi.Freevee (con anuncios)
- T1 E3 - The Search for NeanderthalWatch on supported devices7 de abril de 201923 minIn 1856, workmen in a cave in the Neander valley near Dussseldorf, Germany, unearthed a human skeleton. Its skull had a low, protruding brow, large teeth, and a massive bone structure. And from this discovery began a lengthy dispute: did the Neanderthal man represent an abnormal modern human? Or an extinct ancestor?Freevee (con anuncios)
- T1 E4 - The Lost City of ZimbabweWatch on supported devices7 de abril de 201922 minRising out of the highlands of Sub-Saharan Africa are the ruins of the long-secluded, spectacular Great Zimbabwe. Dismissed by racist explorers as the work of some ancient black civilization and stripped by ignorance and prejudice of many of it's priceless artifacts. Can archaeologists undo the years of preceding damage?Freevee (con anuncios)
- T1 E5 - Unraveling Hitler's ConspiracyWatch on supported devices7 de abril de 201922 minHere, for the first time, is the story of how archeology was used not only to manipulate information about the past, but also to legitimize the genocidal regime of the Nazis.Freevee (con anuncios)
- T1 E6 - Secrets of the Little BighornWatch on supported devices7 de abril de 201922 minOne of America's most famous historical landmarks is The Little Bighorn, a site where Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and more than 250 troopers of the 7th US Calvary rode to their deaths on June 25, 1876. Though detailed facts of the event were unknown, the battle became shrouded in tales of myth and mystery that have endured for over a century. Until now.Freevee (con anuncios)
- T1 E7 - Who Were the Israelites?Watch on supported devices7 de abril de 201922 minThe tale of the Israelites' conquest of the Promised Land has long been an article of faith wherever the Bible is widely read and respected. But recent discoveries suggest that the military defeat of the Promised Land, as detailed in the Book of Joshua, simply never occurred.Freevee (con anuncios)
- T1 E8 - The Voyages of the VikingsWatch on supported devices7 de abril de 201922 minDuring the Middle Ages a powerful, seafaring people known as the Vikings came swarming out of the northlands in their long ships to burn and pillage their way across civilized Europe. But there was another sphere of them: It was the Vikings who completed the Atlantic crossing westward to colonize Greenland, and disembarked upon the eastern coast of North America at a site they called Vinland.Freevee (con anuncios)
- T1 E9 - Caesar's Nightmare: An Ambush in the ForestWatch on supported devices7 de abril de 201922 minIn 9 AD, an arrogant Roman general, Publius Varus, anticipated that he would easily suppress several rebellious Germanic tribes, after which he could leisurely march his troops to their winter campsite. Unfortunately for Varus and three of Rome's crack legions, he walked into an elaborate and well-organized ambush.Freevee (con anuncios)
- T1 E10 - The Ancients of North AmericaWatch on supported devices7 de abril de 201922 minSoutheastern Utah is one of the richest and least disturbed archaeological areas in the Southwest. In 1990, archaeologists in this region discovered a dry cave/rock shelter with human remains. Only a small piece of sandal was removed in order to obtain a date on the site. Amazingly, the date was revealed as 5,490 BC.Freevee (con anuncios)
- T1 E11 - A Quest for GoldWatch on supported devices7 de abril de 201922 minAfter a perilous Atlantic journey, Captain Frobisher arrived at a large bay in the remote Northeastern Arctic of the New World and decreed that he had discovered the entrance to the 'Passage'. Frobisher also found layers of curious ore deposited along the coastline. The Englishman, unacquainted with this exotic but worthless mineral, somehow believed that he had discovered a hoard of gold.Freevee (con anuncios)
- T1 E12 - Athens, Daughter of Egypt?Watch on supported devices7 de abril de 201922 minWas Cleopatra black? Was Socrates? Did Egyptian armies conquer ancient Greece, thus setting the cradle of Western civilization in motion? Is this wishful thinking on the part of historical revisionists...or is it a long-suppressed historical fact?Freevee (con anuncios)
- T1 E13 - The Myth of the MasadaWatch on supported devices7 de abril de 201922 minAlthough almost twenty-five years have passed since the end of Israel's most ambitious archaeological undertaking, the name of this site, Masada, still exerts romantic appeal. For many Israelites and visitors to Israel, the isolated, flat-topped rock in the Judean Desert remains the most visible symbol of the power and significance of modern archaeology.Freevee (con anuncios)
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