perfect for school classes.  EGYPT takes you to the excitement of Howard Carter's unearthing of

Tutankhamen's Tomb in 1922 and the realization that the boy-king's burial chamber was

undisturbed.  This is the site and the artifacts that have traveled the world for the last 20 years

or so in museum displays etc.  The focus is Egypt's 'Quest for Immortality,' and enlightens us

on mummy prep; hieroglyphics in a love letter; the sense that everyone, farmer to pharaoh 

believed eternal life was a birthright. 50 filled minutes.  MESOPOTAMIA brings you to the 

Fertile Crescent in a 'Return to Eden.' It covers 6,000 years exploring the Old Testament, the

Exodus into Babylon, the Assyrians, Sumer, the inventiion of writing, the wheel and Law in a 50

minute welding of Science and religion.  MAYA is my favorite, the subject of one of my books.

'The Blood of Kings' dazzles with the buildings of the Classic Maya 650 AD while Europe was

mired in the Dark Ages.  Visit the 365 step observatories, the ball courts, the complicated writing

and Math systems [one of 5 in the world], the royal mutilations and human sacrifices. Gone is the

sense that this was a utopia spoiled by Europeans as you visit the murals of Palenque, see the

high steps where human sacrifices were rolled down incredible pyramids which people could

inhabit [unlike Egypt].  This 50 minutes is an inspiration for Hispanic students-a sense of pride.