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2) Stargate
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
A scholar of ancient languages and hieroglyphics is recruited to help the military penetrate the mystery of a stone gateway, which, in fact, leads to another universe.
Publisher
First Run Features
Language
English
Formats
Description
For almost 2000 years, the ancient Maya of Central America recorded their history and ideas in an intricate and beautiful hieroglyphic script. Then, in the 16th century, Spanish invaders burned their books and ruthlessly extinguished hieroglyphic literacy. By the 18th century, when stone inscriptions were discovered buried in the jungles of Central America, no one on earth could read them.. BREAKING THE MAYA CODE is the story of the 200-year struggle...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When a collection of Asian artifacts is disposed of at an antique dealer's shop, a mythical series of events unfolds that turns the merchant into a warrior in ancient China who is fated to battle a demon responsible for enslaving all of humankind.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
Easter Island has mystified the world ever since the first Europeans arrived in 1722. How and why did the ancient islanders build and move nearly 900 giant statues, and how did they transform a presumed paradise into a treeless wasteland, bringing ruin upon their island and themselves? Nova explores controversial recent claims that challenge decades of previous thinking about the islanders.
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Every year, a million visitors are drawn to the Salisbury Plain in southern England, to gaze upon a mysterious circle of stones. Stonehenge may be the best-known and most mysterious relic of prehistory. Now investigations inside and around Stonehenge have kicked off a dramatic new era of discovery and debate. Who built Stonehenge? What was its purpose? How did prehistoric people quarry, transport, sculpt, and erect the giant stones? A new generation...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Follows Dr. Stephanie Dalley as she hunts for the gardens using ancient texts and spy satellite images to uncover evidence to support her theory that the gardens were built 100 years before commonly believed. Her search takes her to one of the most dangerous places on earth in a modern-day adventure story searching to find a site thousands of years old.
11) Zipfelm̈utzen G̈otter =: Gods with pointed caps, or, Why Indra came to the wedding on a tricycle
Publisher
National Film Network
Pub. Date
[2005?]
Language
Deutsch
Description
In Gods with pointed caps, religious historian Harald Strohm embarks on an expedition that takes him to cave temples in West India and cult sites in eastern Anatolia. There he unveils, step by step, the history and character of two childlike gods, Indra and Mithra, drawing fascinating parallels between these ancient child-gods and the behavior and nature of children today. This, in turn, offers insight into the practices and beliefs still held by...
Publisher
WGBH
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The ancient Maya civilization of Central America left behind an intricate and mysterious hieroglyphic script carved on monuments and painted on pottery and bark books. This program highlights the ingenious breakthroughs that cracked the code, unleashing a flood of dramatic new insights about the ancient civilization.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2008.
Language
English
Description
It's now 1933, 10 years after Rick and Evie met. They're married, settled in London and are raising their 8 year old son, Alex. Imhotep's corpse has been brought to the British Museum and resurrected ; the mummy walks the earth again, determined to become immortal. Another force born of the darkest rituals of ancient Egyptian mysticism, even more powerful than Imhotep, has also been set loose in the world. When these two forces clash, the world will...
Publisher
University of Utah
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
It was called one of the most important scientific discoveries of 2004. Nestled in the heart of central Utah it offers a window on the past. Range Creek Canyon carries the promise of answering age-old questions. But this may also be the most delicately balanced land in the United States.
18) Dawn of the Maya
Publisher
NGHT
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Explore with National Geographic the last frontier of knowledge about the Ancient Maya as archaeologists uncover evidence of an early Maya culture more dynamic and sophisticated than ever believed.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Presents archaeological scholarship from the Holy Land to explore the beginnings of modern religion and the origins of the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Old Testament. This archaeological detective story tackles some of the biggest questions in biblical studies: Where did the ancient Israelites come from? Who wrote the Bible, when, and why? How did the worship of one God--the foundation of modern Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--emerge?
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