Las Vegas is home to a very diverse Hispanic population with many variations in traditions and celebrations. The Winchester Cultural Center has become a place for these diverse communities to come together…
This is a story about chert, identity and landscape. Used for making flaked stone tools, Hozomeen chert is a locally abundant and distinctive tool stone found exclusively in the northern Cascade Range…
The Ebey Slough Bridge, a swing-span bridge opening sideways for boat traffic, was christened in 1927, just before Babe Ruth's New York Yankees won the World Series…
In an area of northeastern Arizona formerly used by the Zuni, Hopi, Apache, and Navaho, archaeologists with the Arizona Department of Transportation explore a prehistoric habitation site…
Deep in the Menke Valley on the Micronesian island of Kosrae, between Hawaii and Guam, lies the site of Menke. Oral history relates that a temple existed there where people worshiped the goddess Sinlaku…
Location: Florida Length: 14 min
Aided by a hurricane, a project in Florida finds an ancient Native American town where Hernando de Soto and his army encamped in 1539 and which in 1580 became one of the earliest Spanish missions…
Location: Greece Length: 10 min
In the 1970s, near the Greek village of Aidonia, a mule fell into a hole. Upon rescuing the animal, villagers discovered a rare golden treasure buried amidst a group of skeletons…
Location: Washington Length: 13 min
In 1928, the coastal city of Hoquiam in Washington state was a boom town supplying timber for the rapidly growing American West. The Simpson Avenue Bridge opened that year, but its design became problematic as it entered the Twenty-First Century...
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: United Kingdom Length: 13 min
Be prepared for a truly fresh look at the exploits of English Parliamentarian commander Robert Blake under Oliver Cromwell during the first English Civil War. From July 1664 to July 1665, the city of Taunton, the only Parliamentery enclave in the southwest of England, under the leadership of Colonel Blake held out against the Royalist forces led by Lord Goring…