excavations (archaeology)

Introduces fossils, discusses how they form, and describes how fossil-hunters find the sites.

Photographs, illustrations, and facts describe the entombed city of Pompeii, Italy.

Joining Uncle Jay on another archaeological excavation, twelve-year-old Samantha and her brother Jay travel to the marshes near Cambridge, England, where Samantha makes a crucial discovery that threatens to halt construction on a nearby theme park.

Nine chapters focus on distinct periods of Greek culture, tracing the stylistic development of Greek art, architecture, and artifacts over the course of two millennia.

American geneticist Charlotte Hennesey, cured of cancer by DNA extracted from the bones of Jesus, becomes the target of a host of criminals and assassins, most notably Aaron Cohen, a rabbi whose family has been the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant for many years and who wants Charlotte and her now purified blood to open the Ark.

Learn how archaeologists are penetrating Egypt's long-buried mysteries, from the science of preparing a mummy for eternity, to the art of composing a love letter in hieroglyphs, to the technology capable of raising the largest stone buildings ever erected by human beings. (36 min.).

Chloe spends an adventurous summer at an archaeological dig in Egypt.

Dramatization of the greatest natural disaster of the ancient world--the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79.