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Location: Egypt         Length: 14 min

Development of the modern city of Alexandria, Egypt, has obscured traces of old Alexandria on the surface, but an ancient subterranean world of waterworks still remains to be fully explored…

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Location: Bahrain         Length: 5 min

A British archaeology field team explores a historic fort in the small island country of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf to find out what remains beneath the ground…

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Location: Tubuai, French Polynesia         Length: 11 min

In 2007, a group of archaeologists from the University of Otago, New Zealand, led by the late Rob Bollt and filmed by Adam Thompson, came to Tubuai, an island in east Polynesia, to look for traces of some of the greatest explorers in human history, who arrived on the island about 1000 years ago…

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Location: Greece         Length: 21 min

Moussai is a small village in the region of Mylopotamos, Crete, abandoned in the late 1960s.  In only a few decades, the village has been transformed into an advanced stage of decay…

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Location: Florida, USA         Length: 3 min

At the end of the American Revolutionary War, England returned all of Florida to Spain, but it remained a disputed and lawless area…

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Location: Mexico         Length: 6 min

The Day of the Dead, or Dia de los Muertos, is a Mexican holiday held each year on November 1…2. Dr. David Carrasco of Harvard University’s Peabody Museum explains the essential elements of a Day of the Dead altar, by which Mexican families honor their beloved dead…

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Location: Florida         Length: 18 min

Working quickly without heavy equipment to avoid damage to the artifact, archaeologists organized by Southeastern Archaeological Research excavate a thousand-year-old forty-foot wooden canoe from the sandy shore of an island in Tampa Bay…

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Location: Oregon, USA         Length: 4 min

Vandals in 2011 tagged the walls of an Oregon mountain cave, obscuring Native American rock art drawn on the walls many centuries ago.  At the time of this video, authorities of the USDA Forest Service were looking for the perpetrators and the Oregon High Desert Grotto organization was offering a cash reward for their apprehension…

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Location: UK         Length: 21 min

With the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics approaching, the East London landscape in 2010 was being reshaped. This Olympic waterscape encompasses the Lea Valley, a system of braided waterways that define the area…

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Location: Nevada         Length: 4 min

Mike Williams is a member of the Walker River Paiute band from Fallon, Nevada. Inspired by the tule work duck decoys found in the local Lovelock Cave excavations of the 1920s, he experimented and learned to replicate the prehistoric tule work…