Episodes

13 episodes in this season

Africa's Forgotten Kingdoms

60 min

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Code of the Maya Kings

60 min

Empires of India

60 min

Glories of Angkor Wat

60 min

In the Shadow of Ancient Rome

60 min

Lost Cities of the Inca

60 min

Mysteries of the Nile

60 min

Quest for the Grail

60 min

The Edge of the Orient

60 min

E10

The Silk Road

60 min

E11

Tibet's Hidden Kingdom

60 min

E12

China's Frozen Desert

60 min

E13

Glories of the Ancient Aegean

60 min

Treasure Seekers

TV Series

20001h10.0

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Code of the Maya Kings

Season 1 · Episode 2 · Jan 1, 2000

Great cities in ruins, lost in the jungles of Central America and Mexico. Who would have built these cities? It would take more than a century and two extraordinary people to uncover the secrets of ancient Maya. The american John Lloyd Stephens, together with his english companion Frederick Catherwood, enbarked upon the first of two epic voyages to central america in 1839. Facing many dangers and illnesses, they returned from the mysterious land with extraordinary stories and breath taking images from a once great civilization of native americans. One hundread years later, Mayan archaeology had made enormous advances, although the inscriptions that adorn the Mayan ruins had not been completely decyphered. It would be the extraordinary studies of the russian Tatiana Proskouriakoff, a woman in a world of men, that would reveal the true lives of the Maya to the world.

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Treasure Seekers

TV Series

20001h10.0

Documentary

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Code of the Maya Kings

Season 1 · Episode 2 · Jan 1, 2000

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