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The Man Who Discovered Egypt
Item# 52537
© 2012
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-368-6
Flinders Petrie’s pioneering excavation technique—to examine soil inch by inch instead of heaving shovelfuls of dirt around a site—elevated archaeology from an activity for tomb raiders and treasure h...
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How to Build a Dinosaur
Item# 52493
© 2011
20 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-324-2
Reconstructing a dinosaur skeleton for a museum is a balance of art and science—enough science to keep the experts happy, enough artistic license to excite the visitors. But as it turns out, diplomacy...
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Dinosaurs: On the Trail of Prehistory
Item# 44694
© 2011
53 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-126-1
A sensational discovery is made in a German quarry: petrified tracks created by Troodontidae, a beast of great interest to scientists but about which little is known. Paleontologists around the world...
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Nazca Decoded
Item# 52300
© 2009
50 Min.
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The arid desert of southern Peru houses one of mankind’s greatest unsolved mysteries. The Nasca Lines comprise at least 15,000 geoglyphs etched into the desert sands: human and animal figures, geometr...
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The Bible's Buried Secrets: Beyond Fact or Fiction
Item# 44339
© 2009
112 Min.
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Go on a scientific journey to the beginnings of modern religion, and dig into both the Bible and the history of the Israelites through the artifacts they left behind. The film focuses on the Hebrew Bi...
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Great Zimbabwe
Item# 43766
© 2009
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61733-913-4
The Victorian explorer who discovered the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, with its high, sweeping walls and complex passageways, had no idea who could have built it. The vast stone city remained at the cente...
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West Africa
Item# 43767
© 2009
48 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61733-914-1
A collection of extraordinary plaques, seized as loot during the colonial aggression that ended the powerful Benin Empire in 1897, depict life in the African kingdom’s royal court at its height. In th...
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Montezuma: Twilight God of the Aztecs
Item# 41708
© 2009
52 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61616-866-7
As the last great Aztec ruler, Montezuma II inherited a sprawling yet fragile empire. This program studies his governance, its abrupt end at the hands of the conquistadors, and its historical meanings...
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Opening the Eyes: Deciphering the History of the Khmer Empire
Item# 40602
© 2009
53 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-134-7
The gigantic Angkor temple complex in Cambodia is a testament in stone to the Khmer—miles of inscriptions that only Professor Thomas Maxwell and a handful of other experts can decipher. But time is ru...
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Secret Cities of the Amazon
Item# 52302
© 2008
52 Min.
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This program investigates the history and the mystery behind the mythological lost cities surrounding the Amazon River. Scientists once dismissed the legends as exaggerations, believing that the rainf...
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