Location: Guatemala Length: 4 min
Tikal, a World Heritage Site in Guatemala, exemplifies CyArk, a project of the Kacyra Family Foundation that is preserving the world’s most valued cultural heritage sites in three-dimensional digital form…
Location: India Length: 25 min
India is rich in its many cultures and in the depth of its cultural traditions. Home to one of the world’s great original civilizations, India is a place where the ancient and the modern coexist within a single fabric…
Location: Egypt Length: 11 min
Three thousand years ago, Egyptian priests gathered up the mummies and grave goods from many royal tombs and hid them away in a secret cave. In 1871, in the cliffs of Deir El Behri, not far from Luxor in Egypt, a young boy called Ahmed El-Rassul accidentally discovered a hidden tomb in the belly of the mountain near his home…
Location: Cyprus Length: 10 min
During his stay on the island from 1865 until 1876, the American consul in Cyprus, Luigi Cesnola, became an amateur archaeologist to profit from the trade of antiquities. He gathered up more than 35,000 objects...
Location: Arizona Length: 27 min
In the sometimes harsh environment of Arizona’s Tonto Basin, the prehistoric Salado built irrigation canals and made the desert bloom. Hundreds of years ago, pueblos lined the Salt River and its tributaries…
Location: Syria Length: 27 min
The discovery of stone blades at Bronze Age sites in Syria and elsewhere in the Fertile Crescent began an archaeological detective story that has led to a remarkable conclusion: the threshing sledge, once thought to be only several hundred years old, was in full use 5,000 years ago and probably much earlier…
Location: Italy Length: 10 min
In November 2010, Video News host Rick Pettigrew visited Italy for the Borsa tourism trade show. When he returned, he filed this video report on places he visited. Among the sites that he saw and described in Rome were the Colosseum, the Palatine Hill, the Forum and the Pantheon…
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…
Location: Peru Length: 3 min
Dr. Jeffrey Quilter of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University relates the story about a piece of paper his archaeological team excavated in northern Peru in 2008 and the remarkable word list written on it…
The Trappers Point pronghorn kill site was excavated in advance of US 191 construction…