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Explore the world created by America’s First Peoples. This four part series reaches back 15,000 years to reveal massive cities aligned to the stars, unique...
Genre:Documentary
Network:PBS
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Season 1

  • From Caves to Cosmos
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    From Caves to Cosmos

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/23/2018

    Combine ancient wisdom and modern science to answer a 15,000-year-old question: who were America’s First Peoples? The answer hides in Amazonian cave paintings, Mexican burial chambers, New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon and waves off California’s coast.

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  • Nature to Nations
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    Nature to Nations

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/30/2018

    Explore the rise of great American nations, from monarchies to democracies. Investigate lost cities in Mexico, a temple in Peru, a potlatch ceremony in the Pacific Northwest and a tapestry of shell beads in upstate New York whose story inspired our own democracy.

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  • Cities of the Sky
    7.7/1029 votes
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    Cities of the Sky

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/13/2018

    Discover the cosmological secrets behind America’s ancient cities. Scientists explore some of the world’s largest pyramids and 3D-scan a lost city of monumental mounds on the Mississippi River; native elders reveal ancient powers of the sky.

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  • New World Rising
    7.5/1027 votes
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    New World Rising

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/13/2018

    Discover how resistance, survival and revival are revealed through an empire of horse-mounted Comanche warriors, secret messages encoded in an Aztec manuscript and a grass bridge in the Andes that spans mountains and centuries.

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