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Code of the Maya Kings
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.
Aired: Jan 01, 2000 Genre: DocumentaryCasts: Gavin MacFadyenProducers: Graham Townsley Ann Carroll Ann Carroll Ann Carroll Graham TownsleyRating: 0 Country:Production:
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01: Africa's Forgotten Kingdoms02: Code of the Maya Kings03: Empires of India04: Glories of Angkor Wat05: In the Shadow of Ancient Rome06: Lost Cities of the Inca07: Mysteries of the Nile08: Quest for the Grail09: The Edge of the Orient10: The Silk Road11: Tibet's Hidden Kingdom12: China's Frozen Desert13: Glories of the Ancient Aegean