Archaeology
S01:E13 - A Quest for Gold
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T01:C01 - S01:E01 - Fall of the Maya
In Honduras, archaeologists attempt to reconstruct the complex history of the Mayan people.
T01:C02 - S01:E02 - The Death March of De Soto
Archaeologists study the tragic massacre of Native peoples following the footsteps of conquistador de Soto.
T01:C03 - S01:E03 - The Voyages of the Vikings
Academics carry out excavations in the Arctic and reconstruct ancient longships to understand Viking history.
T01:C04 - S01:E04 - The Lost City of Zimbabwe
Archeologists discover the magnificent ruins and ancient African history of Great Zimbabwe.
T01:C05 - S01:E05 - Who Were the Israelites?
Historians learn the "conquest of the Promised Land" by the Israelites did not unfold as told in the Bible.
T01:C06 - S01:E06 - The Myth of Masada
Recent research calls into question the accuracy of the our sources regarding the mass suicide at Masada.
T01:C07 - S01:E07 - Unraveling Hitler's Conspiracy
How did Heinrich Himmler, head of the Gestapo and the SS, use archaeology to justify the Nazi regime?
T01:C08 - S01:E08 - Athens, Daughter of Egypt
Harvard and Oxford face off in a debate regarding the role Egypt played in the formation of Greece.
T01:C09 - S01:E09 - Caesar's Nightmare: An Ambush in the Forest
Archaeologists are believed to have discovered the exact site where Caesar's army was annihilated in Germany.
T01:C10 - S01:E10 - The Search for Neanderthal
The 1856 discovery of a skeleton in a cave near Dsseldorf challenged what we knew about the Neanderthal.
T01:C11 - S01:E11 - The Ancients of North America
7,500-year-old human remains found in a Utah cave reveal the lives of the first inhabitants of the Americas.
T01:C12 - S01:E12 - Secrets of the Little Bighorn
Thanks to ballistics, archaeologists are able to reconstruct the course of the Battle of Little Bighorn.
T01:C13 - S01:E13 - A Quest for Gold
Historians explore the history of the Northwest Passage, leading to the English colonization of the New World.