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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The ancestors of today's Maya people thrived in hundreds of cities across Central America. Caracol and Tikal, with over 100,000 inhabitants at their peak, were among the biggest cities anywhere in the world at the time.
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1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Necropolis expert Marc Griesheimer collaborates with archaeologist Aïcha ben Abed and other specialists to piece together clues to the history of Pupput and the Amphitheater of El Jem, which are in modern-day Hammamet, Tunisia.
43) Savages
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1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A tribe of primitive mud people encounter a croquet ball, rolling through the forest. Following it, they find themselves on a large, deserted estate. After entering, the begin to become civilized and assume the stereotypical roles of people at a party.
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375 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"An insider's look into the decades of research behind Zecharia Sitchin's books as well as an in-depth overview of his theories and discoveries. Includes carefully selected chapters from the Earth Chronicles series as well as never-before-published letters, articles, and lectures. Each piece includes an introduction, offering context and insight into Sitchin's passionate work and revealing the man behind the theories. Explains the genesis of The 12th...
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xvi, 411 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
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"Twenty-five-hundred years ago, civilizations around the world entered a revolutionary new era that overturned old order and laid the foundation for our world today. In the face of massive social changes across three continents, radical new forms of government emerged; mighty wars were fought over trade, religion, and ideology; and new faiths were ruthlessly employed to unify vast empires. The histories of Rome and China, Greece and India--the stories...
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3 videodiscs (304 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This six part series explores the influence on ancient culture on our lives today. Host Michael Wood visits the ancient cities and great ports of India and China, the deserts of Egypt and Iraq, the Mexico of the Inca, Aztec and Mayan peoples, the Greek and Roman monuments of Europe and the jungles of Central America searching for the living legacies of these once great civilizations. The series traces how the institutions that arose with urban civilization...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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English
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"Chronicles the explorations of a young man as he paddles from his home in the North Pole to the South Pole. There, he meets his true love, but their romance is ill-fated. Early Earth's unusual and finicky polarity means the lovers can never touch"--Publisher's website.
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3 videodiscs (470 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Produced with the exclusive cooperation of bestselling author Erich von Daniken, Ancient Aliens launches all-new expeditions to seek out and evaluate the evidence, with a concentration on discoveries of the last thirty years, including unusual DNA findings on man's evolution and newly decoded artifacts from Egypt to Syria to South America. It is a balanced investigation into a theory some believe cannot be true, but many agree cannot be ignored.
51) The ancient Maya
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48 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 22 cm.
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English
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Provides information about the ancient Maya, discussing farming, daily life, beliefs, and other related topics.
52) The ancient Maya
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48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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x, 289 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"An award-winning documentary filmmaker, Shelby Apple is obsessed with re-imagining the full story of the Learned Man -- a prehistoric man whose remains are believed to be the link between Africa and ancient Australia. From Vietnam to northern Africa and the Australian Outback, Shelby searches for understanding of this enigmatic man from the ancient past, unaware that the two men share a great deal in common. Some 40,000 years in the past, the Learned...
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xx, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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English
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"How the global mind drives the evolution of both consciousness and civilization: explains how our brains receive consciousness from the global mind, which upgrades human consciousness according to a pre-set divine time frame; reveals how the Mayan Calendar provides a blueprint for these consciousness downloads throughout history; examines the mind shift in humans and the development of pyramids and civilization in ancient Egypt, Sumer, South America,...
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378 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"In Ecstasy and Terror, Mendelsohn once again casts an eye at literature, film, television, and the personal essay, filtering his insights through his training as a scholar of classical antiquity in illuminating and sometimes surprising ways. Many of these essays look with fresh eyes at our culture's Greek and Roman models: some find an arresting modernity in canonical works (Bacchae, the Aeneid), while others detect a "Greek DNA" in our responses...
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"What's it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that's been sealed for thousands of years? What horrifying secret was found among the prehistoric ruins of the American Southwest? Who really was the infamous the Monster of Florence? Douglas Preston's journalistic explorations have taken him from the haunted country of Italy to the jungles of Honduras. He was granted exclusive journalistic access to the largest tomb in Egypt's Valley...
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