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Learn how to identify the Hindu deity Shiva and hear a story related to a depiction of Shiva in the Asian Art Museum's collection.

Hear the origin story of the Hindu deity Ganesha and learn how to identify depictions of Ganesha with the use of artworks in the Asian Art Museum's collection.

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Mitla is a short distance from the home of Porfirio Gutierrez & family in Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico. The ruins at Mitla give a glimpse of the former glory of the Zapotec civilization and how it lives to inspire the weavers of today...

In Part 5 of Engineering the Inka Empire: A Symposium on Sustainability and Ancient Technologies, Gary Urton presents Engineering a World with Strings Attached: The Place of the Khipu in Building the Inka Empire. The knotted-string recording...

▶ SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/PlanetDoc Full Documentaries every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday! ▶ Documentary "The Forerunners of the Inca" http://pdoc.es/ForeIncas We traveled to the Bolivian altiplano plateau for the first pre-Inca cultures...

We travel the immense Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, for its ancient civilizations. The legendary Tiahuanaco and the mysterious islands of the sun and the moon, where even today, its inhabitants invoke the gods Pachamama and Viracocha. Subscribe...

Mark Van Stone explains how Maya hieroglyphs are constructed, by writing a modern name in phonetic glyphs. Dr. Van Stone is an expert decipherer and calligrapher; author of "2012 - Science and Prophecy of the Ancient Maya" and co-author of...

Tests on three mummies found in Argentina have shed new light on the Inca practice of child sacrifice. Scientists have revealed that drugs and alcohol played a key part in the months and weeks leading up to the children's deaths.

Working under a tight deadline, scientists extract samples that will help describe their young mummy's life. Child Mummy Sacrifice : http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/child-mummy-sacrifice-4084