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the ancient world on television           july 12 - july 18, 2004
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Monday, July 12
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6.00 p.m. |HINT|   The Odyssey of Troy
What is it about the legendary city that 3,200 years after its fall,
we still try to unravel Troy's mysteries? Scholars attempt to answer
the question by researching the Greek poet Homer, possibly one of the
greatest poets in Western Europe's history, and his epic tale of love
and war, and comparing his text to archaeological sites.

7.00 p.m. |HINT| King Herod's Lost City
Two-thousand years ago, King Herod built a wondrous city by the sea.
For 12 centuries his dream city flourished before it was lost to
time, its treasure buried beneath sea and sand. Caesarea's tortured
history includes transformation from Roman paganism and Judaism to
Christianity, and eventual destruction by conquering Moslems.
 
9.00 p.m. |DCIVC| The Mystery of the Parthenon
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10.00 p.m. |DCIVC| Mystery of the Shroud
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Tuesday, July 13
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3.00 p.m. |DCIVC| The Mystery of the Parthenon
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7.00 p.m. |HINT| Moses at Mount Sinai 
Story of the search for the mountain where Moses spoke to God and
received the Ten Commandments. Explores the possibility that the site
could be at St. Catherine's monastery

8.00 p.m. |HISTC| Tutankhamen
Two men made the richest find of all time, the tomb of Tutankhamen.
Howard Carter was an obsessed excavator who believed against all
popular opinion that there was an uncovered royal tomb in Egypt. His
patron, Lord Camarvon, was an aristocratic adventurer who devoted his
fortune to that obsession. In 1922, they found the untouched tomb of
King Tutankhamen.[etc.]

9.00 p.m. |HISTC| Chariots of Power
At the beginning of the first millennium BC the small city state of
Assyria decided to regain its lost empire with a relentless series of
military conquests. With a formidable army equipped with hundreds of
chariots they rapidly dominated the Near East.

10.00 p.m. |DCIVC| Archaeology IV: Florida's Lost Empire
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Wednesday, July 14
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8.00 p.m.|DISCC| Egypt Detectives: The Mystery of Tutankhamun
Archaeologists have made an astonishing discovery that could change
our understanding of the life and death of King Tut; the team tries
to determine why Tut's tomb does not contain custom-made burial
goods, like most Egyptian rulers' graves.

8.30 p.m.|DISCC| Egypt Detectives: The Mystery of the Animal Mummies
The catacombs at Saqqara contain 2.5 million animal mummies; the
team tries to determine why the Egyptiams mummified animals at all,
and why so many?

9.00 p.m. |HINT| Lost Civilizations: Aegean: Legacy of Atlantis
This episode of the Emmy Award-winning series explores ancient
civilizations that spread through the Aegean Sea and searches for
historical roots of some of Western civilization's oldest legends,
including an examination of ruins on the Greek Island of Thera for
the basis of the Atlantis legend. On Crete, the Greek mainland, and
Turkey, we follow the trail of clues that leads from ancient myths to
evidence of the Trojan War, Trojan Horse, Minoan civilization, and
the Minotaur. Sam Waterston narrates.
 
10.00 p.m. |HINT| Time Team: Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent
Burslem--one of six towns that make up Stoke-on-Trent in England--
was the site of Josiah Wedgwood's first factory, where a thriving
business was born during the Industrial Revolution. Before building
begins on a new potteries museum in the town square, Time Team has
just three days to find out how much of that important history still
survives under modern paving stones. Experts Mick Aston, Phil
Harding, and Carenza Lewis use ground-penetrating radar to unearth
evidence layer by layer.
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Thursday, July 15
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7.00 p.m. |HINT| The Great Empire: Rome: Building an Empire
Host Joe Mantegna visits the vast territories conquered by the
imperial army--by the 2nd century AD, the empire spanned three
continents. The over 4,000 Roman cities were cultural melting pots,
where diverse customs and beliefs blended. Features life in Pompeii,
the flamboyant Emperor Hadrian, and religious revolts in Judea.
 
8.00 p.m. |NGU| Natural History Showcase: Egyptian Mummies
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10.00 p.m. |NGU| Riddles & Rituals: Hidden Pyramids of Peru
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Friday, July 16
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6.00 p.m. |HISTU| Barbarians: Goths
Terrorized by the Huns savage raids, the Goths made a desperate bid
for safety in the Roman Empire, but were forced into squalid
concentration camps along the imperial borders, starved and degraded,
their children sold as slaves. But Rome made a big mistake--the Goths
kept their weapons and exploded in rioting and looting. After
centuries of broken treaties, King Aleric sacked Rome. Ironically,
the Goths maintained Roman art and culture in their new Goth kingdoms
as the Empire faded away.
 
7.00 p.m. |HISTU| Barbarians: Mongols
Shot in film on location, we examine "The Mongol Catastrophe"--the
invasion by nomadic warriors that swarmed out of the east
overwhelming the Ottoman Empire. At the greatest point in their
conquest, the Mongols controlled an empire that stretched from the
Sea of Japan to the Baltic, from Korea to East Germany, taking in
most of Eurasia as well. The Mongol warriors pioneered a style of
warfare unparalleled in cunning and cruelty--and so revolutionary
that it still inspires military strategists.
 
7.00 p.m. |HINT| Leif Ericson: Voyages of a Viking
Saga of the Viking thought to be the first European to land in
America. The son of the explorer Eric the Red, Leif brought
Christianity to Greenland and sailed to a place he called "Vinland",
which most scholars believe to be in modern New England. 

7.00 p.m. |DTC| The Emperor of the Steppes
In a huge undertaking, researchers and archaeologists working in
Upper Mongolia unearthed the sepulcher of the Emperor of the Steppes.
This expedition may reveal insight into Mongolian history dating back
to the second century BC.

8.00 p.m. |DTC|The Grasp of Empire
Rome's legacy of trade, roads, and architectural and psychological
infrastructure relied on a fragile alliance of slaves, peasants, and
the provincial. The glory years of the Roman conquest led to the
longest period of peace the world has ever known.

9.00 p.m. |DTC|The Cult of Order
Roman culture still weaves influence through western art,
architecture, medicine, and urban planning. This enormous empire was
a reflection of the multicultural world it encompassed, as excellence
gave way to excess and decline.

9.00 p.m. |HINT| The Roman Emperors
When the power of Rome was concentrated into the hands of supreme
rulers, the empire began to corrode as the emperors led lives of
increasing depravity. We'll visit their mansions to get an inside
look at the splendor--and squalor--in which they lived, and insight
into their often inexplicable acts.

10.00 p.m. |DTC| The Fall
From the reign of Diocletian to the sack of the Eternal City in 410
A.D., abusive political elite, complacent military, and an eroding
cultural identity placed the Roman empire in an inexorable decline.

10.00 p.m. |DCIVC| The Most Evil Men in History: Vlad the Impaler
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10.30 p.m. |DCIVC| The Most Evil Men in History: Attila the Hun
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Saturday, July 17
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3.00 p.m. |DTC|The Grasp of Empire
Rome's legacy of trade, roads, and architectural and psychological
infrastructure relied on a fragile alliance of slaves, peasants, and
the provincial. The glory years of the Roman conquest led to the
longest period of peace the world has ever known.

4.00 p.m. |DTC|The Cult of Order
Roman culture still weaves influence through western art,
architecture, medicine, and urban planning. This enormous empire was
a reflection of the multicultural world it encompassed, as excellence
gave way to excess and decline.

5.00 p.m. |DTC| The Fall
From the reign of Diocletian to the sack of the Eternal City in 410
A.D., abusive political elite, complacent military, and an eroding
cultural identity placed the Roman empire in an inexorable decline.

6.00 p.m. |DTC| Sodom and Gomorrah
Examine geological clues to a natural disaster responsible for one
of the most dramatic apocalyptic events in history. Search for
evidence of earthquakes and landslides that sparked the fires that
consumed the Biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.

8.00 p.m. |HINT| Arms in Action
Examines history's most mythical, symbolic, and spiritual weapon--
the sword. Modern sword makers try their hands at the lost secrets of
Celtic and Viking techniques, and in Japan, where sword making is
deeply steeped in religion, we watch their construction. Produced in
partnership with the Royal Armouries in the Tower of London.
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Sunday, July 18
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10.00 p.m. |HINT| Time Team: Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent
Burslem--one of six towns that make up Stoke-on-Trent in England--
was the site of Josiah Wedgwood's first factory, where a thriving
business was born during the Industrial Revolution. Before building
begins on a new potteries museum in the town square, Time Team has
just three days to find out how much of that important history still
survives under modern paving stones. Experts Mick Aston, Phil
Harding, and Carenza Lewis use ground-penetrating radar to unearth
evidence layer by layer.
 
8.00 p.m. |NGU| NGC Presents: Inside the Vatican
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9.00 p.m. |HINT| The Roman Conquests
Although Caesar invaded it in 54 BC, Britain wasn't conquered until
43 BC when Claudius established Roman garrisons at Lincoln, York, and
Chester. Viewers go inside this savage period in British history and
enter the battlefield from an unique perspective--of those who fought
and died there. And a bloody period it proved to be for the Romans
had not reckoned on the ferocious campaign mounted against the all-
powerful Legions under the leadership of the legendary Queen Boudicca.

10.00 p.m. |NGU|NGC Presents: Quest for Noah's Flood
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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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