Location: South Carolina Length: 27 min.
It was a time when our climate was cooler. Great ice sheets covered the northern areas of what was to become the United States…
Location: Armenia Length: 18 min
This documentary chronicles the discovery of an ancient Armenian city built by Tigran the Great (140–55 BC) in the First Century BC…
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: 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: Peru Length: 12 min
Chavín de Huántar, the type site of the Chavín culture, is one of the oldest major sites in Peru, thriving between 1500 and 400 BC. Chavín, featuring terraces and plazas and platforms of dressed stone, controlled and increased regional trade and developed a unique art style…
Location: Washington Length: 24 min
In January of 1887 the Austria, one of the first Down-Easters built to compete with steel and steam, struck shore on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula. Her remains, scattered in the intertidal zone at Cape Alava, were recorded by field school participants under the direction of archaeologist Faith Haney...
Location: Egypt Length: 23 min
This is the fictional story of Khonso-Imhep, Head Musician of the Pharaoh's court during the 18th Dynasty, as he passes from life into the afterworld, complete with a trial that determines his fate…
Location: Chiapas, Mexico Length: 24 min
Until recently, the 10-year old boy K'ayum lived much as his ancestors did, learning about forest plants and animals from his grandfather, Chan K'in…
Location: Oregon Length: 17.5 min
At what is now Champoeg State Park in Oregon's Willamette Valley on May 2, 1843, a historic vote of American settlers and former Hudson's Bay Company employees established the first provisional American government on the Pacific Coast…
Location: Missouri Length: 30 min.
Ancient history didn’t happen just in famous places like Rome, Tikal and Angkor Wat. It happened also in the heart of North America…