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Location: Guatemala         Length: 14 min

As keepers of what they believe is the very navel of the world, people in the highland Guatemalan town of Santiago Atitlán hold the cosmos itself in balance by performing rituals (see TAC video Balancing the Cosmos) echoing the ancient traditions of their prehispanic Mayan ancestors.

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Location: Arizona         Length: 30 min

Why is the burning at the 14th Century Chevelon Ruin of the Homol'ovi village in northeastern Arizona so extensive? In this ancestral Hopi home, 100 or more structures were burned intentionally, but why?

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Location: Israel, Palestine         Length: 27 min.

The Book of Matthew relates that Herod, King of the Jews, ordered the slaughter of the innocents to eliminate a potential challenger to his throne…

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Location: Guatemala         Length: 28 min

This is a film about the Maya people emerging, through their own impressive efforts, out of a dark past…

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Location: New Mexico         Length: 9 min

In south-central New Mexico lies Three Rivers, where the Jornada Mogollon created over 10,000 petroglyphs between AD 900 and 1400. At the nearby Trinity Site, White Sands Missile Range, the world's first atomic bomb exploded in 1945…

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Location: Cambodia         Length: 27 min

Hardly any other country can boast of such a high concentration of temples, sculptures and archaeological sites as Cambodia. However, many of these fascinating world heritage sites are under environmental threat or are in danger of being looted…

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Location: New Mexico         Length: 15 min

Here the silent ruins speak of a time seven centuries ago when the Gila Cliff Dwellings were much more than just cold stone walls…

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Location: Pennsylvania         Length: 15 min

Archaeological exploration of a five-mile stretch of proposed highway near Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, in the mid-1990s revealed numerous prehistoric archaeological sites dating between 12,000 years ago and A.D...

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Location: West Virginia         Length: 28 min.

In this film, a team of archaeologists combines traditional research and modern technology to unveil a lost era in American history…

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Location: North Carolina         Length: 37 min

An abandoned wooden house deep in the woods leads an archaeologist/film-maker on a journey into the history of a family…