Prehistoric
Bones of Turkana
Follow famed paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, his family and colleagues as they work in the arid northern regions of Kenya's Turkana Basin to unravel the mysteries of human evolution. While one of the Leakey team's goals is to demonstrate the complexity and truth of human evolution, they also seek to show how the qualities that we proudly call human were all born in Africa. Continue
Cave People of the Himalaya
Everest climber and thrill seeker Pete Athans returns to the Himalayas with Dr. Mark Aldenderfer in search of the caves and mummies of a lost civilization. There they risk their own safety to reveal astonishing evidence of a previously unknown 1,500-year-old death ritual high in the Himalayan caves. Continue
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With the help of CGI, NOVA breathes life into the polar dinosaurs' lives and environment in vivid detail. 7/27/11 Continue
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Explore the origin of our solar system and the start of life itself, how head lice figure in human evolution, and more. Continue
American Experience
Joseph Leidy and Charles Knight were prominent American academics who committed their lives and reputations to the young field of paleontology. Leidy participated in the cutthroat race to produce the most prolific and authentic findings on dinosaur fossils in the United States; Charles Knight was a painter who a knowledge of anatomy and paleontology to bring extinct creates to life on canvas. Continue
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Charles R. Knight (1874-1953) was one of the first American painters to depict dinosaurs, providing imaginative and largely scientifically based renditions of the extinct beasts. In a time when dinosaurs captured the fascination of people across the country, Knight's ground-breaking images combined paleontology and artistry to create some of the most popular museum displays of his day. Continue
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The third hour of NOVA's comprehensive, three-part special "Becoming Human" examines why, of the many species of humans that once shared the globe, only our species, Homo sapiens, remains. Continue
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An archeological detective story traces the origins of the Hebrew Bible. Continue
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Israeli archeologist Eilat Mazar has unearthed what she believes is the royal house of the Bible’s King David. Continue
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The story behind the centuries-long decipherment of ancient Maya hieroglyphs Continue
Bones of Turkana
A chronicle of the remarkable life of Richard Leakey and the discoveries he, his family and noted colleagues unearth over four decades of exploring Kenya's Turkana Basin in search of clues to man's origins. Continue
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A new forensic investigation of a 5,000-year-old mummy reconstructs his death and reveals an ancient way of life. Premiering October 26, 2011 on PBS Continue
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Insects caught in amber spark a controversial theory about what killed the dinosaurs. Continue
American Experience
Do you remember first learning about dinosaurs? Have you been to Dinosaur State Park? What do you know about dinos in America? What do you think makes prehistoric creatures so fascinating? Continue
American Experience
Although O.C. Marsh and Charles Darwin lived on separate continents, their discoveries, which would forever shape the field of modern science, intersected in a most unlikely place: the American West. Continue
The Human Spark
Series host and narrator, Alan Alda, confronts the puzzle of why our ancestors in Africa got the Spark and evolved into us, while the first humans to leave Africa for Europe -- the Neanderthals -- never did. Why did we flourish, while they changed very little for thousands of generations before eventually dying out? Continue
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The second hour of NOVA's comprehensive, three-part special "Becoming Human" examines new discoveries that reveal how the first humans hunted and formed families. Continue
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William Dever says that attempts to "prove the Bible" are misguided. Continue
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William Schniedewind charts the rise of literacy in the Israelite world, making Holy Scripture possible. Continue
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What could we expect if one of these volcanic megablasts were to occur today? Continue
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