"This course will take you around the world to look at and examine in depth some of the greatest masterpieces of ancient art. We will explore spectacular artworks from diverse places and times, starting with cave paintings that were made at the dawn of human creativity in the Paleolithic age to the contents of tombs and buildings, remarkable stone sculptures, and wrought gold and textiles that were made as recently as 600 years ago. Each of the...

As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw is a young man who is captured for sacrifice, but flees to avoid his fate. He is taken on a perilous journey to a world that is ruled by fear and oppression, where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate...

They are some of the most famous- and infamous- leaders the world has ever known. Cutting-edge technology, dramatic reenactments and expert commentary deliver their stories is vivid detail.

Looks at the history and culture of ancient Greece; their architecture, art, mythology, leaders and orators, the Olympic Games, and the beginning of democracy.

Having lived as mobile foragers for 99 percent of our time on Earth, how and why did humans set out on the road to civilization? How did they create villages, towns, cities and states, and establish the blueprint for the modern world? Explore the seedbed civilizations of Mesoamerica, the Middle East, and the Indus Valley in this global story.

What supernatural lives will be revealed when "Underground Portals" explores the 10,000-year-old prehistoric art work discovered in a cave in India. Could the face of Giza's Great Sphinx prove to be older than once thought, and what otherworldly being might it actually represent? History continues its exploration of unexplained events and phenomena in this collection that journeys through the Egyptian pyramids, Central American temples, and Earth's...

Twenty-four lectures on the history of Asia Minor, from its origins as a civilization in Anatolia to the Ottoman Empire.

Wilby's all grown up now, with a wife and a son. Unfortunately, he's still subject to furry transformation every time the inscription on an ancient scarab ring is read aloud...not a comforting prospect when you're a candidate for District Attorney!

Professor Harl begins during the Bronze Age and the emergence of urban-based literate civilizations and carries the story forward until the demise of Persia's great empire at the hands of the Greeks, who embraced many of the achievements of these Near East civilizations but clearly represented a different kind of civilization, built on different institutions. Along the way, he examines advances like the invention and evolution of writing; the development...

British Egyptologist John Romer explores the ruins of an ancient village near Thebes, where generations of craftsmen and artists built and decorated royal tombs. There, relics reveal the most intimate details of the people's daily lives: their meals, their loves, their quarrels, and even their dreams. Go inside the pharaohs' most magnificent tombs and see astonishing art and priceless treasures. Meet the scribes, stonemasons, and high priests who...