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The Ancient World on Television September 6 - 12, 2004
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Monday, September 6
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1.00 p.m. |DCIVC| MTA: The Lost City of Roman Britain
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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.
11.00 p.m. |DCIVC| Legend Hunters: The Holy Grail
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Tuesday, September 7
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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.
9.00 p.m. |DCIVC| Mysteries of the Sphinx
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11.00 p.m. |HISTU|Flying Pyramids Soaring Stones
How did the ancient Egyptians build the pyramids and lift obelisks? These spectacular feats of engineering defy explanation. Theories about ropes, ramps, ingenuity, and brute force abound. Even aliens have been credited. But no definitive answer to this enigma exists. Now, an extraordinary new theory is being tested. Expert sailors, Egyptians used wind power on the Nile. Could they also harness the power of the wind on land and use land sails, or kites, to help lift heavy stones?
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Wednesday, September 8
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9.00 p.m. |HISTC| Archery Tales of the Longbow
This programme explores the English and Welsh longbowmen of Edward III, the Black Prince and Henry V more than 470 years ago. Remarkable feats were achieved as a result of their deployment as artillerymen, using what were later to become classic tactics in battle. Revealing at last how peasant conscripts and hired mercenaries used pointed sticks to change their world, bring the high and mighty to their knees and, finally, to irrevocably alter the way in which the western world fights its wars.
9.00 p.m. |HINT| Greece: A Moment of Excellence
Journey back to Athens, where the world's first democracy took seed, as Pericles ushered in a Golden Age of unparalleled learning in philosophy, architecture, science, art, and drama, when small city-states in Greece rose from obscurity to ignite one of the most spectacular explosions of cultural achievement in Western Civilization's history. Learn why the modern world still clings to the ideals of Ancient Greece for intellectual and aesthetic inspiration. Sam Waterston narrates.
9.00 p.m. |DCIVC| Ancient Evidence: Who Was Paul?
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10.00 p.m. |DCIVC| Secrets of Ancient Empires: First Civilizations
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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.
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Thursday, September 9
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6.00 p.m. |HINT| Monumental Statues
What inspires societies to create sculptures on a superhuman scale? We'll examine gigantic statues and the monumental commitment of time, money, and talent needed to complete them. We'll study the Sphinx, Colossus of Rhodes, Statue of Liberty, Mt. Rushmore, Brazil's Christ the Redeemer, Russia's Motherland, and the Crazy Horse Memorial.
7.00 p.m. |DCIVC| Ultimate Ten Specials: Mummies
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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. |DCIVC| Lost Treasures of the Ancient World: Japan
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9.00 p.m. |HINT| Battle of the Clans
A 2-hour look beyond the myth of the Highland Clansman that tells the often tragic story of this symbol of Scotland--heroic warrior clad in tartan kilt marching to the bagpipe. See why, 250 years ago, Clansmen were seen as barbaric, and special laws were enacted prohibiting the wearing of tartans, playing of pipes, and even speaking Gaelic!
9.00 p.m. |DCIVC| Ancient Earthquake: Sunken Cities
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9.00 p.m. |HISTU| The Gothic Invasion of Rome
378 AD. The crumbling Roman Empire, split in two, literally faces the barbarians at the gates. Ravaged by Hunnic invasions, the Visigoths beg Rome to let them cross the Danube. Corruption drives this hungry horde to rebellion, and pride drives Emperor Valens to take them on near Constantinople without waiting for support from Gratian, the Emperor in the West. On a blisteringly hot day, the Goths met Roman forces in a battle that St. Ambrose called "the end of all humanity, the end of the world."
9.30 p.m. |HISTU| Battle of Marathon
After providing defensive aid to neighboring Ionia, the Athenians must defend their city against Persian invasion. But Persia, with its archers and cavalry, has a clear advantage. After an 8-day stand off in 490 BC, with Persian reinforcements on the way, the Athenians, led by Callimachus and Militiades, decide to take the offensive. Part documentary, part interactive game, viewers join the forces of King Darius as 6,000 are slaughtered by the Athenians, who depend on speed to gain the advantage.
10.00 p.m. |HINT| Defeat at Waterloo: Napoleon vs. Wellington
Waterloo: the most famous battle in history. In an afternoon in 1815, the balance of the world's power changed for hundreds of years to come. Leading the French, Napoleon Bonaparte; leading the English, the Duke of Wellington. We cover events leading up to that fateful day, and the bloody clash that seesawed back and forth.
11.30 p.m. |HISTU| Crassus: Rich Man, Poor Man
Carrhae, 53 BC. Although he may have been the richest man in Rome, Crassus was the political poor relation in the First Triumvirate. He needed military laurels to raise him up to the level of Pompey and Caesar, and he chose to try to get them in Parthia. His vanity was to cost the lives of seven Roman Legions, his son, and his own head. The Roman force was wiped out in the desert and the legionary eagles lost that day would not be restored until the time of Augustus.
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Friday, September 10
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6.00 p.m. |HISTU| Crypts, Coffins and Corpses
The manner in which a society deals with the dead reveals a great deal about how it views life. From mummification and cannibalism to cremation, cryonics, and interments in space, our final tributes to loved ones have been as varied and bizarre as the methods used to treat the deceased body. Starting at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science, where we view a modern embalming, we'll turn back in time and travel the world to witness the many historical methods of dealing with the deceased.
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| Napoleon's Obsession: Quest for Egypt
In a plot to conquer Egypt, Napoleon set sail with 17,000 troops, 700 horses and 150 scientists. Though his conquest failed, research of the scientists that accompanied him gave birth to modern archeology and Egyptology.
8.00 p.m. |DTC|The Rise
The beginnings of the Roman Empire are shrouded in mystery. Without armies, palaces, or priests, the Romans conquered and ravaged the best of other civilizations.
8.00 p.m. |HINT| Hidden Cities of the Etruscans
A look at the fascinating people that ruled Italy centuries before the Romans. Explores the contradictions in the character of the Etruscans, who embraced both art and slavery, technology and sensuality.
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.
9.00 p.m. |DTC|Legions of Conquest
At the height of military power, the Roman Empire stretched from Scotland to the Sahara. Yet the same traits that created this vast expansion eventually turned the Roman military into an unwieldy and self-serving force of destabilization.
10.00 p.m. |DTC|Seduction of Power
Trace the evolution of Roman politics from the world's first representative government through the lives of Gracchi, Julius Caesar, Nero, and Septimius Severus and into a tumultuous and theatrical display of power over substance.
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Saturday, September 11
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3.00 p.m. |DTC|The Rise
The beginnings of the Roman Empire are shrouded in mystery. Without armies, palaces, or priests, the Romans conquered and ravaged the best of other civilizations.
4.00 p.m. |DTC|Legions of Conquest
At the height of military power, the Roman Empire stretched from Scotland to the Sahara. Yet the same traits that created this vast expansion eventually turned the Roman military into an unwieldy and self-serving force of destabilization.
5.00 p.m. |DTC|Seduction of Power
Trace the evolution of Roman politics from the world's first representative government through the lives of Gracchi, Julius Caesar, Nero, and Septimius Severus and into a tumultuous and theatrical display of power over substance.
6.00 p.m. |DTC|The Lost Mummy of Imhotep
The Egyptian high priest in the movie, The Mummy, is considered by historians to be the first genius. The first to build pyramids, this physician and ruler was a god to his people. Archaeologists may have discovered his tomb in the sands of Saqqara.
8.00 p.m. |HINT| The Sword
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
11.00 p.m. |HINT| Fatal Victory: Nelson at Trafalgar
Original correspondence and journals detail the exploits of Britain's Admiral Horatio Nelson at the historic Battle of Trafalgar, and shed light on his scandalous love affair with the beautiful Lady Hamilton
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Sunday, September 12
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9.00 p.m. |HISTU| First Invasion: The War of 1812
Just 30 years after the closing days of the American Revolution, an immature United States faced annihilation by its parent! Join us for an epic 2-hour look at the War of 1812, when the mighty British Empire once again waged war against the fledgling U.S. This largely forgotten war witnessed Washington in flames, inspired the national anthem, allowed the founding fathers to step aside for a new generation of common men and women with uncommon courage, and saw the U.S. emerge as a world power.
9.00 p.m. |HINT| Hastings
1066 is perhaps the most famous year in English history for the great battle fought on Sanilac Hill in October effectively ended the Anglo-Saxon way of life. William Duke of Normandy--soon to be known as The Conqueror--landed his troops near Hastings on the south coast of England where he was met by the weary army of King Harold II. The remarkable Bayeaux Tapestry has added to the myths and legends surrounding the battle--all of which are dispelled or proven as we take viewers to the brutal battlefield.
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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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