Secrets of Lost Empires
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Secrets of Lost Empires is a two part television
series produced by PBS
Nova
, Boston (WGBH
). Both series explore experimentally how ancient civilizations achieved notable constructions without modern machinery and construction methods. Each episode has guest experts who are challenged to develop and implement methods that may have been used. The original series was produced with the BBC
and fully compiled in 1997 (although some episodes had been produced much earlier) and the second series was produced with Channel Four of the UK and fully compiled in 2000.
See also List of NOVA episodes.
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series produced by PBS
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Nova
NOVA (TV series)
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, Boston (WGBH
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WGBH-TV, channel 2, is a non-commercial educational public television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. WGBH-TV is a member station of the Public Broadcasting Service , and produces more than two-thirds of PBS's national prime time television programming...
). Both series explore experimentally how ancient civilizations achieved notable constructions without modern machinery and construction methods. Each episode has guest experts who are challenged to develop and implement methods that may have been used. The original series was produced with the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
and fully compiled in 1997 (although some episodes had been produced much earlier) and the second series was produced with Channel Four of the UK and fully compiled in 2000.
Series I (1997)
- Secrets of Lost Empires: This Old Pyramid (1992)
- Secrets of Lost Empires: Stonehenge
- Secrets of Lost Empires: Incas (1994)
- Secrets of Lost Empires: Obelisk
- Secrets of Lost Empires: Colosseum
See also List of NOVA episodes.
Series II (2000)
- Secrets of Lost Empires II: Medieval Siege
- Secrets of Lost Empires II: Pharaoh's Obelisk (1999): re-examination of findings from first series
- Secrets of Lost Empires II: Easter Island (1998)
- Secrets of Lost Empires II: Roman Bath
- Secrets of Lost Empires II: China Bridge (1999): examination of the bridge in the renowned painting Along the River During the Qingming Festival
Funding
- MerckMerck & Co.Merck & Co., Inc. , also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the United States and Canada, is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The Merck headquarters is located in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, an unincorporated area in Readington Township...
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- Park Foundation
- Northwestern Mutual Life
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- Corporation For Public BroadcastingCorporation for Public BroadcastingThe Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a non-profit corporation created by an act of the United States Congress, funded by the United States’ federal government to promote public broadcasting...
- Viewers Like You
- David H. Koch Foundation
External links
- PBS Nova page on Secrets of Lost Empires
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PBSPublic Broadcasting ServiceThe Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
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