Location: Nevada Length: 8 min
In the 1860s, Aurora, a mining boom town in western Nevada, was home to a Chinese population for which history is mute. At one point, the community comprised around 10,000 people, making it one of the largest towns in Nevada…
Location: Cyprus Length: 10 min
People have been growing grapes and making wine in Cyprus for thousands of years. They were making wine before Rome was founded!
Location: Guatemala Length: 13 min
Dr. Mark Van Stone reads the Creation story on Quiriguá Stela C, the late Eighth Century monument in Guatemala telling the myth of the "Planting of the Three-Stone Hearth (of Creation)"…
Location: Malta Length: 17 min
Long before Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids, Neolithic people in Malta built many impressive megalithic temples. Then the temple builders vanished from the archaeological record…
Location: Ohio Length: 6 min
Magnetometer survey by Dr. Jarrod Burks in Ohio relocates part of the 1000 foot wide Shriver Circle, a now invisible Woodland Period (300 B.C. – A.D. 500) earthworks feature, suggesting that remote sensing can revolutionize our understanding of Ohio earthworks…
Location: Worldwide Length: 7 min
Dr. Mark Van Stone, Keynote Speaker for TAC Festival 2012, explains how Maya hieroglyphs are constructed by writing a modern name in ancient phonetic Maya characters…
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…
Location: Belgium Length: 14 min
In 1708 a crucial battle took place in Oudenaarde, in East Flanders, Belgium, during the War of the Spanish Succession. In the surrounding plains, the two most powerful European armies, including over 180,000 soldiers, confronted each other…
Location: Pennsylvania Length: 4 min
A multi-million year old human fossil may be a truly one-of-a-kind look into the history of our species, but even the most well preserved specimen is useless in a vacuum…
Location: Arizona, USA Length: 17 min
Grand Canyon National Park, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the United States, is home to a Native American population with thousands of years of history and tradition…