Egypt: Journey to the Global Civilization
Were Egypt’s pyramids really built by slaves to be the tombs of the pharaohs? Most scholars believed so - until the excavation of a workers’ village and the tomb of High Priest Kai led to some startling conclusions. In this program, Zahi Hawass,...
Indus: The Unvoiced Civilization
Shrouded in mystery, the details of the Indus Valley civilization are slowly being extracted from the archaeological record. In this program, Richard Meadow, of Harvard University; R. S. Bisht, of the Archaeological Survey of India; linguist Asko H....
Mesopotamia: I Have Conquered the River
Literally "the land between the rivers," Mesopotamia was host to some of the world’s earliest and most powerful civilizations. Shot on location, this program seeks to understand how the Sumerian city-states, cradled by the Tigris and Euphrates Riv...