Ancient Mysteries Legends and Empires 6of8 Mystical Monumen of Ancient Greece x264 EZTV
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ANCIENT MYSTERIES: LEGENDS AND EMPIRES is an objective and illuminating look at some of mankind's most enduring mysteries. Narrated by Leonard Nimoy, this award-winning series from HISTORY travels the world to explore and recreate the enigmas that continue to defy science and spark our imagination. This collection focuses on the myths, legends and the amazing lost civilisations of our collective history that are constant sources of inspiration for fantasy literature and movies - exposing what is known, what is imagined and what is pure speculation and myth.
Before we unlock the future we must find the keys to the past. Mysteries of ancient humanity and lost civilizations can be found all over the world. Across the globe, temples and tombs harbor ancient secrets and give archaeologists a priceless window into the past. We can read only a small part of the story of the past in the great ruins that still stand and the tablets and scrolls that remain. Much is lost to time, more is still hidden, someday to be found. Many relics still keep their secrets. Come to explore the mysteries of our earliest cultures as historians investigate controversies and mysteries of the ancient past, and open the door to Ancient Mysteries.
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6) Mystical Monuments of Ancient Greece
The Parthenon, the Acropolis, the Agora, the Goddess Athena. Pericles, the king of Athens at the height of its power in the Golden Age of Western Civilisation, commissioned these tremendous monuments and had them dedicated to the Goddess Athena. Temples of such strength and beauty, they still entice and amaze modern day visitors. Yet what was the real purpose for constructing these magnificent, ancient marbled treasures? Was it to house a new brand of politics called \"democracy\", or to serve as a platform for a brutally intense cult of worship?
Watch as \"Mystical Monuments of Ancient Greece\" investigates the true motives behind the construction of Ancient Greece's most impressive landmarks.
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