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the ancient world on television                May 24-30, 2004
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Monday, May 24
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5.00 p.m. |DCIVC| Ancient Warriors: The Knights Templar
dna

9.00 p.m. |DCIVC| The Great Egyptians II: The Rebel Pharoah
dna

10.00 p.m. |DCIVC| Ultimate Ten Specials: Mummies
dna
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Tuesday, May 25
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5.00 p.m. |DCIVC| Ancient Warriors: The Assyrians-Masters of War
dna

5.30 p.m. |DCIVC| Ancient Clues: Mass Death in Marseille
dna

6.00 p.m. |HISTU| The Holy Grail
The Holy Grail...Christ's cup from the Last Supper. Medieval poets
sang its praises, and King Arthur's knights chased it to the ends of
the earth. Did Joseph of Arimathea really claim the cup after the
Last Supper and collect Jesus's blood in it at the Crucifixion? Why
are there so many Grail tales, no two of which fully agree? And why
does the scent of heresy linger about the sacred cup? Many treasures
are bigger, but none more precious or elusive as we discover in this
quest for the venerable vessel. 

7.00 p.m. |HINT| Joshua at the Walls of Jericho 
We know the walls of the legendary city "came a-tumbling down."
We'll explore when. Archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon argues that Jericho
fell before Joshua arrived, and Professor Bryant Wood supports the
biblical version of events.  

8.00 p.m. |HISTC| Sinking Of The Mary Rose
As one of the world's first battleships and the pride of King Henry
VIII, the Mary Rose was one of the most well known ships in maritime
history. All of a sudden, on a calm summer's day, while the king
looked on, the Mary Rose went down, killing nearly everyone on board.
Using top maritime accident investigators, the Sinking Of The Mary
Rose critically reviews the mystery behind what went wrong on that
fateful day.

9.00 p.m. |DCIVC| Secrets of the Skies: Stonehenge - Sex And The
Stones
dna

9.00 p.m. |HISTC| Charlemagne - Father of Europe
Is it possible that the most famous ruler of the Middle Ages,
Charlemagne, who was crowned Emperor by Pope Leo III in the year 800,
never actually existed? Could the bright star of European history for
hundreds of years, the hero of countless sagas and legends, be
nothing more than a myth? The most recent scientific research
indicates that the King of the Franks who fought so many wars and is
regarded as the Father of Europe may have been in fact invented by
Otto III, King of Saxony, who himself wanted to be Emperor at the
turn of the first millennium and therefore inserted into the calendar
300 years which had never happened. According to the scholar Heribert
Illig, we should actually describe this year as 1697. The early
Middle Ages, the period from 600-900, is purely a product of an
inventive mind. [etc.]
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Wednesday, May 26
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5.00 p.m. |DCIVC| Ancient Warriors: The Legends of Rome
dna

9.00 p.m. |HINT| Lost Civilizations: Maya: The Blood of Kings
Explore the archaeological ruins of the amazing Maya, reclaimed from
the jungles of Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala, in this episode of
the Emmy Award-winning series narrated by Sam Waterston.
Reconstructions present a plausible view of what the strange and
sometimes frightening Mayan civilization must have been like--with
its baffling pyramids, life-and-death ball games, inscrutable glyphs,
and its enigmatic decline.
 
10.00 p.m. |HINT|Time Team: Beauport Park, Sussex 
A Roman bathhouse unearthed near a huge mound of iron slag near the
golf course at Beauport Park, Sussex, England, leads host Tony
Robinson (Baldrick in "Blackadder") to ask: "What is a Roman
bathhouse doing here completely on its own, 40 miles from the nearest
Roman town?" The search for other Roman buildings is on. There could
be a lost city or forgotten fort, and Time Team, aided by surveyors,
geophysicists, and even a dowser, have just three days to find it.
 
10.00 p.m.|NGU| Curses of Ancient Egypt
dna
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Thursday, May 27
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8.00 p.m. |HINT| The Rise of Christianity: The First 1000 Years, Pt. 1
The story of the crucifixion of Jesus, Paul's preachings to the
Gentiles, the crackdown by Roman authorities, the conversion of
Constantine, and the fall of Rome to the Goths in 461 AD. 

9.00 p.m. |NGU| Secrets of the Viking Warriors
dna

10.00 p.m. |HINT|  The Rise of Christianity: The First 1000 Years,
Pt. 2 
The glory of the Eastern Roman Empire, the challenge of Islam, the
dawn of the Dark Ages, and the coming of the Holy Roman Empire, which
converted Europe to Christianity about 1,000 years after the death of
Jesus.

10.00 p.m. |DISCU| Iceman: Hunt for a Killer
Otzi, the 5,300-year-old Stone Age iceman discovered in the Alps in
1991, is scheduled for a new defrosting. In an attempt to recover the
arrowhead that caused Otzi's death, Dr. Egarter hopes to reveal the
identity of Otzi's killer.

11.00 p.m. |DCIVC| Discovery Time Capsule: Ancient Civilizations
dna
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Friday, May 28
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5.00 p.m. |DCIVC| Meet The Ancestors: The Lost City of Roman Britain
dna

7.00 p.m. |DTC| Mystery of the Tibetan Mummy
In a lost corner of Tibet, a team of Discovery scientists have
uncovered the story of a centuries old body... perfectly intact. It
wasn't embalmed like the Egyptian pharaohs or preserved in a glacier.
Could this mysterious man have mummified himself?

7.00 p.m. |HINT| Adam & Eve: Lost Innocence
A look at the world's first couple, who are credited with inventing
civilization as we know it. We also compare similar stories in
religions around the world.
 
8.00 p.m. |HINT| The Viking Ships
Adorned with dragonheads and filled with some of the fiercest men on
earth, they inspired dread throughout the Dark Ages. Dramatic
recreations and sophisticated computer simulations give us an onboard
view of these ingenious raider craft. 

8.00 p.m. |DTC| Lost Treasures of the Yangtze Valley
As China constructs the world's largest and most powerful dam on the
Yangtze River, scholars and scientists race to uncover and preserve
artifacts that tell its story and and the story of the people who
have lived on its shores for over 50,000 years.

9.00 p.m. |DTC| Mystery of the Persian Mummy
Encased in a gilded wooden coffin inside a stone sarcophagus, a
Persian princess mummy over 2,600 years old was found. Follow the
discoveries that turned this archaeological treasure into a murder
hunt.

10.00 p.m. |DTC| The Mystery of the Parthenon
Dominating the skyline of Athens is the ancient Acropolis—once the
center of the Greek civilization. Trace the history of the Temple of
the Parthenon, from its history of design and construction, to the
men involved in its destruction.

10.00 p.m. |DCIVC| Devil- The Unauthorised Biography
dna
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Saturday, May 29
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11.00 a.m. |DTC| Mystery of the Tibetan Mummy
In a lost corner of Tibet, a team of Discovery scientists have
uncovered the story of a centuries old body... perfectly intact. It
wasn't embalmed like the Egyptian pharaohs or preserved in a glacier.
Could this mysterious man have mummified himself?

12.00 p.m. |DTC| Lost Treasures of the Yangtze Valley
As China constructs the world's largest and most powerful dam on the
Yangtze River, scholars and scientists race to uncover and preserve
artifacts that tell its story and and the story of the people who
have lived on its shores for over 50,000 years.

12.00 p.m. |NGU| Curses of Ancient Egypt
dna

1.00 p.m. |DTC| Mystery of the Persian Mummy
Encased in a gilded wooden coffin inside a stone sarcophagus, a
Persian princess mummy over 2,600 years old was found. Follow the
discoveries that turned this archaeological treasure into a murder
hunt.

2.00 p.m. |DTC| The Mystery of the Parthenon
Dominating the skyline of Athens is the ancient Acropolis—once the
center of the Greek civilization. Trace the history of the Temple of
the Parthenon, from its history of design and construction, to the
men involved in its destruction.

3.00 p.m. |DTC| Lost Treasures of the Yangtze Valley
As China constructs the world's largest and most powerful dam on the
Yangtze River, scholars and scientists race to uncover and preserve
artifacts that tell its story and and the story of the people who
have lived on its shores for over 50,000 years.

6.00 p.m. |DCIVC| Discovery Time Capsule: Ancient Civilizations
dna

6.00 p.m. |DTC| Mysteries of Stonehenge
Experts believe that Stonehenge took half a millennium to bring to
completion. It required the ingenuity to transport the heavy stones
over land and sea for hundreds of miles without our modern tools and
equipment. Explore how and why it was constructed.

6.00 p.m. |PBS| NOVA: Methuselah Tree
An examination of the oldest living thing on earth. Filmmakers
travel 11,000 feet up to California's White Mountains, the location
of a bristlecone pine that was around when the Egyptian pyramids were
built. [check local listings]

11.00 p.m. |HINT| The Egyptians
Host Richard Karn looks at history's first organized fighting force.
The ancient Egyptians marched across the Middle East, brought home
booty to the pharaohs, and fought a great battle against the dreaded
Sea People.
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Sunday, May 30
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1.00 p.m. |DISCU| Iceman: Hunt for a Killer
Otzi, the 5,300-year-old Stone Age iceman discovered in the Alps in
1991, is scheduled for a new defrosting. In an attempt to recover the
arrowhead that caused Otzi's death, Dr. Egarter hopes to reveal the
identity of Otzi's killer.

7.00 p.m. |HINT| Lost Civilizations: Maya: The Blood of Kings
Explore the archaeological ruins of the amazing Maya, reclaimed from
the jungles of Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala, in this episode of
the Emmy Award-winning series narrated by Sam Waterston.
Reconstructions present a plausible view of what the strange and
sometimes frightening Mayan civilization must have been like--with
its baffling pyramids, life-and-death ball games, inscrutable glyphs,
and its enigmatic decline.
 
7.00 p.m. |HISTU| Napoleon's Mass Grave   
In March 2002, in Vilnius, Lithuania, construction workers uncovered
a mass grave filled with close to 2,000 skeletons. Scientists
determined that the remains belonged to the last remnants of
Napoleon's Grand Army retreating from Moscow in 1812. The find offers
new insight into Napoleon's invasion of Russia, the largest military
disaster ever recorded. Follow scientists as they seek to learn who
these people were and how they died. Was it a massacre, an epidemic,
or the result of brutal cold?

9.00 p.m. |HINT| Poirot: Murder in Mesopotamia
An archaeologist's beautiful but unpopular wife is murdered while
the couple is in the Middle East excavating an historical site, and
the baffled local authorities ask the vacationing Poirot to take on
the case. David Suchet stars in this 2-hour adaptation of one of
Agatha Christie's best-known tales, which was shot on location in
Tunisia and London.
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                        Channel Guide

A&E     The Arts and Entertainment Channel (cable)
DTC     Discovery Times Channel (U.S. Cable)*
DCIVC   Discovery Civilization (Canadian Cable)
DISCC   Discovery Channel (Canadian Cable)
DISCU   Discovery Channel (U.S. Cable)
HINT    History International (U.S. Cable)
HISTU   The History Channel (U.S. Cable)
HISTC   History Television (Canadian Cable)
NGU     National Geographic Channel (U.S. Cable)*
PBS     Public Broadcasting System (U.S. National Schedule)
TLC     The Learning Channel (cable)

*n.b. Canadian versions of these two channels have recently
been made available although the Canadian versions don't seem
to be making their schedules available yet. For what it's worth,
the Canadian version does seem to 'match up' in regards to
ancient programming most of the time.
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