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The Past

Archaeologist Charles Higham has spent thirty years revealing Southeast Asia’s distant past.

The Hunt for evidence of slavery in the North.

A muddy dig in the Corinthian coastal plain yields the remains of an ancient Greek city swallowed by the sea.


How an ingenious former fashion photographer managed to capture on film the mind and spirit of the ancient Maya.

Merle Greene Robertson has spent a lifetime chronicling Mesoamerican Art.


Jungle surveyors in Guatemala uncover the breadbasket of the Maya world.
Ancient trees redefine the past.

By reading the rings of pines as old as the earliest pharaohs, Henry Michael has changed the way we look at the past.


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