Location: Egypt Length: 22 min.
As expressed in monuments that retain their impact still today, magic and the supernatural filled the lives of ancient Egyptians…
Location: Michigan Length: 24 min
Fort St. Joseph, begun as a French Jesuit mission in the 1680s, was one of the earliest European settlements in the western Great Lakes and an important link among the remote settlements of New France…
Location: Mesoamerica, South America Length: 27 min.
Three outstanding civilizations represent the last phases of pre-Conquest urban culture in the New World: the Maya, the Aztecs, and the Incas...
Location: Guatemala Length: 22 min.
An association of Tz’utujil Maya people from Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, struggle to establish a cultural center and archaeological site museum at the nearby lakeside site of Chuitinamit, once home to the Pre-Hispanic Maya King Tepepul and now badly looted…
Location: Colorado Length: 3 min
Intense forest fires in July and August of 2000 caused the greatest natural destruction in the 95-year history of Mesa Verde National Park, a national and international archaeological treasure containing an abundant record of ancient Puebloan life…
Location: Colorado Length: 3 min
The complex World Heritage site of Mesa Verde is a good challenge for CyArk, a Kacyra Family Foundation project that is preserving the world's most valued cultural heritage sites in three-dimensional digital form…
Location: Colorado Length: 24 min.
Sheltered from the centuries, the Cliff Dwellings of Mesa Verde cling to sandstone ledges, as if clinging to another time. The stone villages serve as our best window into the world of the ancient puebloans…
Location: Alabama Length: 17 min.
Eight hundred years ago a fortified town stood on the banks of the Black Warrior River in Alabama. It was a prehistoric metropolis, the ceremonial heart of an advanced Mississippian society…
Location: Taiwan Length: 21 min
The indigenous Austronesian people of Taiwan, just two percent of the island’s population, are a disadvantaged group, with high unemployment and substandard education…
Location: Georgia, USA Length: 25 min
New Echota was the first capitol of the Cherokee Nation from 1825–1838 prior to the Cherokee's forced removal from the Southeast, marking the beginning of the "Trail of Tears"…