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Overview Details Customer Reviews Through breathtaking discoveries, archaeologists are uncovering the early years of the ancient Maya to reveal a dynamic, sophisticated culture that was flourishing before the time of Christ. The Preclassic Maya—once dismissed as primitive—created massive pyramids, elaborate art, early writing, and more. Join National Geographic's Dawn of the Maya as it investigates the rise one of the world's greatest and most mysterious civilizations. Not available for shipment...

Overview Details DVD Exclusives Customer Reviews Explore the ruins of the most highly developed civilization in the jungles of Mexico and Central America that mysteriously collapsed more than a thousand years ago. You'll hear the startling story of the kingdom's downfall and witness ancient rituals re-enacted on sites where they originally occurred. Not available for shipment outside of the U.S. and Canada. © 19971 disc; 60 minutes National Geographic DVD ExclusivesFor the first time ever,...

This probing documentary from the History Channel tasks a team of historians, archaeologists, and forensic experts with discovering how the epic, ancient Mayan city of Palenque was built, and what its imposing structures were originally created for, by the long deceased people who created it. ~ Cammila Albertson, Rovi

Additional Details Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Rating: Not Rated Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 50 Minutes Region: Region 1 Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Language: English Studio: History Channel DVD Release Date: March 7, 2005 Josh scours Central America to reveal the secrets of the world's most prolific pyramid builders. Indiana Jones, watch out! Host, explorer and survival expert Josh Bernstein takes a fresh look at the world's greatest ancient mysteries and puts adventure back into history as he travels...

The rich culture and famed architectural achievements of the Mayan civilization are spotlighted in this trip through some of Central America's most sacred sites, including the ruins at Palenque, Tikal, Tulum, Chichen Itza, Copan and Uxmal. The program also touches on the Mayan society's innovation in the fields of mathematics and astronomy. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi All Movie Guide

One of the most mysterious, scientifically advanced achievements ever discovered among ancient cultures is the creation of the Mayan calendar. After years of painstaking research, archeologists and researchers are still mystified by the unusual prophetic nature and mathematically advanced, time reckoning structure of the Mayan calendar system. Scientific evidence shows us that the ancient Maya were fiercely intelligent and their knowledge of space, time and astronomy far exceeds all our expectations...

This documentary release from the History Channel explores how the ancient Mayans pioneered many of the fundamental principles of astronomy on which modern scientists rely today. From the world's first solar observatory to the origins of their complex calendar system, the wisdom of this culture proves to have been very important. ~ Cammila Albertson, Rovi

This program explores the Mayan city of Tikal in Guatemala and how it was built without metal tools. Included are a demonstration of Mayan tools used to carve limestone and a trip up the Usumacinta River to the ancient city of Yaxchilan to examine the remains of a suspension bridge. ~ Bill Ecklund, Rovi

Copyright: 2007. Language: English. Closed-Captioned. Color, Live Action. MARC records, Catalog Card Kit and Single Main Entry Cards are available. Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo. Features: Chapter Select, Interactive Menu, Bonus Programs: "Mountains of the Maya". Technical: Double Layer, Single Sided, Anamorphic. DVD Region: 1.

Deep within the jungles of Mexico and Guatemala, and extending into the Yucatan Peninsula lie the fabled pyramids, temples and palaces of the Maya.While Europe still slumbered in the midst of the dark ages, these innovative people charted the heavens, evolved the only true writing system native to the Americas and made tremendous strides in the areas of mathematics and calendars.

In this compelling program, Mayan researcher Ian Xel Lungold presents amazing new discoveries about how the Maya centered their civilization around a reality and concept of time they believed was the unfoldment principle for consciousness, galaxies, life, history and even creation itself.

Deemed "Fellini and Bergman wrapped in one gloriously possessed body," Maya Deren is arguably the most important and innovative avant-garde filmmaker in the history of American cinema. Using locations from the Hollywood hills to Haiti in the 1940s and ’50s, Deren made such mesmerizing films as AT LAND, RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME, and her masterpiece, MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON, which won a prestigious international experimental filmmaking prize at the 1947 Cannes Film Festival. Starting with excerpts...

Lost King of the Maya In an ancient Mayan arena; enemies of notorious King Yax Kuk Mo square off in a ball game that appears much like modern soccer. But in this fateful contest; winners liveand losers lose their heads. From 200 to 900 A.D.; Yax Kuk Mos dynasty of Blood Lords presided over the Maya city of Copan; conducting hallucinogenic vision quests; ritual warfare and human sacrifice. Join a team of archaeologists and historians who are piecing together the fascinating rise and fall of this ancient...

The discovery of Mayan hieroglyphs qualifies as something of a miracle in and of itself,, given the 16th Century Spaniards' systematic destruction of all books, monuments and pottery bearing the written language. History took a turn for the better in the 18th century, however, when archaeologists turned up a series of artifacts inscribed with these glyphs - artifacts buried in the Central American jungles for hundreds of years. As adapted from Michael Coe's bestselling book of the same name and helmed...

The indigenous people of Guatemala have kept their culture alive despite centuries of war and oppression. Tracing the history of the descendants of the Maya takes Mark &Julie to Tikal , where the Mayan culture thrived over a millennium ago, then mysteriously disappeared. They explore the surrounding jungle by day and by night, using flashlights and fireflies as guides, ascend one of Tikal’s majestic temples to witness sunrise over the mystical jungle landscape. In the “ Altiplano ”, or high plains...

The rich culture and famed architectural achievements of the Mayan civilization are spotlighted in this trip through some of Central America's most sacred sites, including the ruins at Palenque, Tikal, Tulum, Chichen Itza, Copan and Uxmal. The program also touches on the Mayan society's innovation in the fields of mathematics and astronomy. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi

Maya Deren was one of the pioneering figures of avant-garde cinema in America and also a noted author, poet, anthropologist, and alternative cultural figure of the 1940s and 1950s. Born Eleanora Derenkovsky in 1917, her family fled Kiev in 1922 to avoid political and economic reprisals brought on by her father's association with Leon Trotsky. Settling in Syracuse, NY, the family shortened their name to Deren, and Eleanora developed a passionate interest in dance and literature. After receiving degrees...

The desolate and extensive desert in Southern Peru hides one of the most spectacular secrets of Nazca culture, the legendary and mysterious geoglyphs engraved on the surface of the desert. There are illustrations of various animals that measure 100 meters and further images that extend for several kilometers. The precision and huge dimensions of these lines is simply breathtaking. For some time, it was believed that they could only be discerned from the sky but the truth is, they can be seen from...