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.