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Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Travel from present-day Mexico City to over 500 years into the past to explore the Aztec Empire, a wealthy and highly organized society. See archaeological excavations of temples and statues and the island city of Tenochtitlan. Learn what everyday life may have been like for Aztec people.
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Maya to Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed immerses you in the epic story of the Mexico's history with 48 exhilarating half-hour lectures that cover the full scope of Mesoamerican history and culture. Your guide is Professor Edwin Barnhart, Director of the Maya Exploration Center and a noted archaeologist, explorer, and teacher, whose exploits include the discovery of a lost Maya city.
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Video and Television (distributor)
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
While Europe was in the midst of the Dark Ages, the Maya of Central America were developing a culture responsible for a complicated writing system, mathematic and astrological calculations and archeological marvels. Explore ruins in the jungles of Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala to understand a people both sophisticated and bloodthirsty and a society that collapsed with mysterious speed.
Publisher
Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
This video story not only traces the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs and Maya, but also follows the journeys, in 1839, of New York explorer John L. Stephens to these strange and wonderful cities. Using computer graphic reconstruction, animated maps, classic art, reanactment and beautiful on-location cinematography, the viewer sees Teotihuacan, Cholula, Monte Alban, Chichen Itza, Tenochtitlian, Tikal, Copan, Uxmal, and Palenque as they might have looked...