LOST CIVILISATIONS
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GREECE AND ROME, EGYPT AND MESOPOTAMIA.
THE MAYA AND THE INCA. SIX INTRIGUING
WORLDS FILLED WITH TRIUMPHS AND TRAGEDIES, GLORIOUS BEGINNINGS AND MYSTERIOUS
ENDINGS. ADAPTED EXCLUSIVELY FOR
READER’S DIGEST CUSTOMERS, SHOWCASING THE BEST OF THE HIGHLY ACCLAIMED
TIME-LIFE ORIGINAL PRODUCTION, LOST CIVILIZATIONS WILL MAKE ANCIENT HISTORY
COME ALIVE AS NEVER BEFORE.
EGYPT
AND MESOPOTAMIA
TRAVEL BACK TO ANCIENT EGYPT AND EXPLORE
THE TIMELESS ALLURE OF A CULTURE IN WHICH EVERYONE, FROM FARMER TO PHARAOH,
BELIEVED THAT ETERNAL LIFE WAS A NATURAL RIGHT. LEARN HOW ARCHAEOLOGISTS ARE PENETRATING EGYPT’S LONG-BURIED MYSTERIES
FROM THE SCIENCE OF PREPARING A LOVE LETTER IN HIEROGLYPHS, TO THE TECHNOLOGY
CAPABLE OF RAISING THE LARGEST STONE BUILDING EVER ERECTED BY HUMAN BEINGS.
AND TAKE AN INSPIRING 6.000-YEAR JOURNEY
BACK TO THE RIVER VALLEYS OF MESOPOTAMIA’S FERTILE CRESCENT, BIRTHPLACE OF THE
GREAT WORLD TRADITIONS OF THE CHRISTIAN, JEWISH AND MUSLIM FAITHS. WITNESS THE INVENTION OF THE WRITING AND THE
CONCEPT OF LAW. JOIN ARCHAEOLOGISTS
UNEARTHING PHYSICAL CLUES TO THE TRUTH BEHIND THE BIBLICAL STORIES OF THE
GARDEN OF EDEN, THE GREAT FLOOD, THE TOWER OF BABEL – AND MORE!
GREECE
AND ROME
JOURNEY BACK TO ATHENS, THE WORLD’S FIRST
DEMOCRACY, AS PERICLES HELPS USHER IT INTO A GOLDEN AGE OF UNPARALLELED
ACHIEVEMENT IN PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE AND ART. AND DISCOVER THE VERY ESSENCE OF WHAT IT MEANT TO LIVE AS AN ANCIENT
ROMAN, PART OF A MILITARY COLOSSUS THAT, EVEN TO THE PRESENT DAY, IS REGARDED
AS ‘THE ULTIMATE EMPIRE’.
CELEBRATE THE GODS AT THE COLOSSEUM...SPY
ON A ROMAN EMPEROR’S WIFE...DANCE WITH THE CULT OF DIONYSUS..MINGLE WITH
GLADIATORS PREPARING FOR BATTLE...JOIN SOCRATES AT THE SYMPOSIUM...SEE WHY
CAESAR WAS ASSASSINATED...AND MUCH MORE!
THE
MAYA AND THE INCA
TRAVEL BACK TO AD 650 AND IMMERSE YOURSELF
IN THE DAZZLING WORLD OF THE ANCIENT MAYA RISING FROM THE MISTS OF CENTRAL
AMERICA LIKE A FABULOUS DREAM, SEE THEIR SOARING STONE PYRAMIDS, TEEMING
PLAZAS, PAINTED BALL COURTS AND MAJESTIC TEMPLES. WHAT WAS IT THAT BOUND TOGETHER THE RICH
MAYAN SOCIETY OF LORDLY PRIEST-KINGS, SCHOLARS AND WARRIORS? YOU’LL DISCOVER THE SECRET OF THE POWER AT
THE CENTRE OF THIS GLITTERING CIVILIZATION.
AND ENTER THE KINGDOM OF THE LEGENDARY
INCA EMPERORS, WHOSE RULE MARKED THE STUNNING CLIMAX OF 3.000 YEARS OF SOUTH
AMERICAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION. JOIN
RESEARCHERS UNRAVELLING THE ENIGMAS OF THE NAZCA, CREATORS OF THE
EARTH-DRAWINGS ONCE BELIEVED THE WORKS OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS. TRAVEL THE 15.000-MILE INCA ROAD SYSTEM –
THEN WITNESS THE INCREDIBLE ENGINEERING FEAT THAT IS THE FABLED MACHU
PICCHU. FINALLY, WITNESS THE TRAGIC
ECLIPSE OF THE GREAT INCA IN A FINAL DEVASTATING ENCOUNTER WITH THE SPANISH
CONQUISTADORS.