The Search for Civilization
Description
Archaeologist Richard Miles presents a series charting the history of the breakthroughs and watersheds in our long quest to understand our ancient past. He shows how discoveries in the 18th and 19th centuries overturned ideas of when and where civilization began, as empires competed to literally 'own' the past.
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52 min
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Date of Publication
[2014], c2013
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Films on Demand
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