Name: Mystery of the Anasazi
Released: 2005-05-09

Digging for the Truth

S1 · E13 — Mystery of the Anasazi

S1:E13 · Mystery of the Anasazi

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13 episodes in this season

Who Built Egypt's Pyramids?

60 min

Nefertiti: The Mummy Returns

60 min

Pompeii Secrets Revealed

60 min

Hunt for the Lost Ark

60 min

The Holy Grail

60 min

The Iceman Cometh

60 min

Quest for King Solomon's Gold

60 min

Passage to the Maya Underworld

60 min

The Lost Tribe of Israel

60 min

E10

Secrets of the Nazca Lines

60 min

E11

The Search for El Dorado

60 min

E12

Giants of Easter Island

60 min

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Season 1 · Episode 13 · May 9, 2005

In the American Southwest, there is no more puzzling mystery than the magnificent stone cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde. Why did the Anasazi Indians suddenly move their villages to these perilous cliffs in the 13th century--and then abandon them just decades later--and seemingly disappear from history? Was it drought? Invading tribes? Or an insidious ""cancer"" from within that may have caused them to turn to fierce warfare and even cannibalism? In search of answers, our host, the intrepid explorer and survival expert Josh Bernstein, travels from Mesa Verde, Colorado to remote canyons in Utah where the Anasazi took refuge. Piecing together the story from both archaeologists and Native Americans, he finally ends up, in his search for the truth, in the eerie and desolate ruins of the Anasazi's greatest cultural center--Chaco Canyon.

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Mystery of the Anasazi

Season 1 · Episode 13 · May 9, 2005

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