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: Brazil Length: 13 min
This imaginative drama is based on an indigenous tale from the Amazon forest, in which young Naia learns from her tribe’s elders stories of how the stars in the sky came to be. According to legend, the moon came out at night in search of the most beautiful Indian girls…
Location: Utah, USA. Length: 2 min
Passport In Time volunteers help the Manti-La Sal National Forest and the Edge of the Cedars Museum in Blanding, Utah, to catalogue artifacts. The artifacts, collected in the 1970s, are from hundreds of Ancestral Puebloan sites dated AD 500 and 1300 in southeastern Utah…
Location: Tennessee, USA. Length: 14 min
Egg Fight is a short documentary that explores a centuries-old Southern Appalachian tradition. In a family feud older than the Hatfields and the McCoys, two Appalachian families keep alive their fighting tradition: egg fighting, that is…
Location: Illinois, USA. Length: 14 min
Unbeknownst to most people, lots of archaeology goes on in Illinois all the time. Visit some excavation sites and drop in on the lab where the archaeologists organize, catalog and interpret what they find…
Location: Pennsylvania, USA Length: 27 min
Important decisions surrounding archaeological work in the path of a major Pennsylvania highway involved sensitive discussions among 15 Native American tribes, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration…
Location: United Kingdom Length: 10 min
This film takes us on an exploration of the Watermill Theater in Berkshire and its change in uses from a corn mill to a fulling mill, a paper mill and eventually a theater. Its three hundred year history is seen today through remnants of the past and even a rumor of a ghost…
Location: Hawaii, United States Length: 12 min
Kalaupapa, Hawaii, is one of those rare places where the history that began in the 1860s is still alive today. Located on the rugged shore of Molokai, Kalaupapa was chosen as the inescapable place to isolate Hawaiians with Hansen's Disease, better known as leprosy…
Location: Ostia Antica, Italy Length: 9 min
Technicians using ancient building techniques work to save crumbling walls at “The Mithraeum of the Painted Walls” in Ostia Antica, the harbor of classical Rome. During a journey to the ruins of Ostia Antica, the harbor of ancient Rome, we visit The Mithraeum of the Painted Walls…
Location: Virginia Length: 27 min
People love the thrill of discovery. This is one key element that attracts people to archaeology. Witness a diverse group of regular folks as they learn about real archaeological discovery from a group that has been doing it for a long time…