Ann R. Williams: National Geographic's, Lost Cities Ancient Tombs
Earth Ancients
Cliff Dunning
4.6 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Archaeology is the key that unlocks our deepest history. Ruined cities, golden treasures, cryptic inscriptions, and ornate tombs have been found across the world, and yet these artifacts of ages past often raised more questions than answers. But with the emergence of archaeology as a scientific discipline in the 19th century, everything changed.
Illustrated with dazzling photographs, this enlightening narrative tells the story of human civilization through 100 key expeditions, spanning six continents and more than three million years of history. Each account relies on firsthand reports from explorers, antiquarians, and scientists as they crack secret codes, evade looters and political suppression, fall in love, commit a litany of blunders, and uncover ancient curses.
Pivotal discoveries include:
King Tut's tomb of treasure
Terracotta warriors escorting China's first emperor into the afterlife
The glorious Anglo-Saxon treasure of Sutton-Hoo
Graves of the Scythians, the real Amazon warrior women
New findings on the grim fate of the colonists of Jamestown
With a foreword from bestselling author Douglas Preston, Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs is an expertly curated and breath-taking panorama of the human journey.
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| 0:00.0 | Each week we learn that archaeology has come a long way from the days of digging and excavating |
| 0:08.5 | without really prior knowledge to the location that is being worked on. |
| 0:14.5 | Today we're talking about the new technologies that are revolutionizing archaeology. |
| 0:20.1 | That's LIDAR, ground penetrating radar, satellite imagery that really gives archaeologists |
| 0:27.0 | an idea of what they're looking at before they lay a shovel on the ground. |
| 0:32.6 | Today's program is Lost Cities, ancient tombs, 100 discoveries that change the world. |
| 0:40.8 | This is a new book out by National Geographic and we'll be speaking to the editor who selected |
| 0:48.2 | these amazing locations. |
| 0:51.6 | All this and more on Earth Ancients. |
| 1:21.6 | For Saturday, March 5th, 2022, this is Earth Ancients. |
| 1:36.2 | I'm your host, Cliff Dunning. |
| 1:41.1 | Put your feet up, get your cup of coffee tea or if it's that time of day, a brew, a beer |
| 1:49.5 | or a libation, what could be a spirit and sit and get ready for another program. |
| 1:55.2 | Welcome to, yes, it's that time again, welcome to Earth Ancients, how you doing, this is Cliff. |
| 2:03.6 | For a number of years, we have had a list of scientists, archaeologists, Egyptologists |
| 2:12.6 | telling us about their research and many cases, their excavations. |
| 2:19.2 | When we hear from Dr. Kara Kuni, who's an Egyptologist, professor at UCLA, that Egyptology |
| 2:26.1 | is dead, the question is, why would she say something like that? |
| 2:30.7 | Of course, we've had Dr. Ed Barnard on our program, he's a regular contributor and by |
| 2:37.2 | the way, he is going to be presenting an outstanding program on the OMEC in April, perfect for |
| 2:44.8 | Earth Ancients, because it really brings a lot of questions as to the sophistication |
| 2:49.0 | of this culture, but we've heard Ed mention that as well as Kara, I mentioned that they |
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