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| Alien From Earth Do the remains of a tiny hobbit-like creature found on the island of Flores belong to a new human species? |
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| America's Stone Age Explorers Who were the first Americans, and where did they come from? |
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| Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land Israel's remote Cave of Letters holds clues to a Jewish uprising against the Romans. |
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| Ape Genius Experts zero in on what separates humans from our closest living relatives. |
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| Boldest Hoax, The Who perpetrated Piltdown Man, the greatest scientific fraud of the 20th century? |
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| Darwin's Darkest Hour A two-hour drama on the crisis that forced Darwin to publish his theory of evolution. |
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| Family That Walks on All Fours Experts explore the mysterious story of five siblings living in a remote Turkish village. |
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| Great Escape Experts dig into World War II's most daring and technically ingenious prison break. |
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| Great Inca Rebellion, The Mass graves and forensic evidence reveal a complex truth about how the Inca Empire fell. |
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| Ice Mummies Archeologists from the Andes to the Alps and beyond learn about lost cultures from remarkably well-preserved human remains. |
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| Japan's Secret Garden For at least 2,000 years, the wildlife and people living around Japan's Lake Biwa have lived in a harmonious balance. |
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| Last Great Ape, The An expedition into the Congo examines one of our closest living relatives, the peace-loving bonobo. |
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| NOVA scienceNOW: Little People of Flores The remains of three-foot-tall humans are discovered on a remote Indonesian island. |
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| Lost City of Arabia Helped by remote sensing, an expedition searches Oman's vast al-Khali desert for the lost city of Ubar. |
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| Lost King of the Maya Using ancient hieroglyphs and new excavations, archeologists investigate the rise and fall of the majestic city of Copan. |
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| Lost Roman Treasure Experts rescue priceless mosaics from an ancient city about to vanish beneath a reservoir. |
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| Lost Treasures of Tibet A crack restoration team tries to prevent priceless medieval Buddhist murals from crumbling into dust. |
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| Lost Tribes of Israel An anthropologist looks for the lost city of Africa's Lemba tribe, and investigates their claim to an ancient Jewish heritage. |
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| NOVA scienceNOW: Mammoth Mystery A pair of mammoth skeletons is found locked together by their tusks. What happened? |
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| Master of the Killer Ants The Mofu people of Cameroon rely on an unlikely ally—a driver ant—to protect their homes and crops. |
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| Megabeasts' Sudden Death Scientists propose a radical new idea of what killed off mammoths and other large animals at the end of the Ice Age. |
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| Mummy Who Would be King, The Could a mummy exhibited for 140 years at an obscure museum in Niagara Falls be the remains of a long-lost Egyptian pharaoh? |
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| Musical Minds Oliver Sacks explores how the power of music can make the brain come alive. |
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| Mysteries of the Nile Explore ancient Egypt through a stunning series of interactive panoramic photographs. |
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| Mysterious Mummies of China Three-thousand-year-old mummies with long blond hair and blue eyes are unearthed in a remote Chinese desert. |
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| Mystery of the First Americans The discovery of a 9,000-year-old skeleton embroils scientists in a debate over North America's first inhabitants. |
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| Neanderthals on Trial Are Neanderthals our ancestors or an evolutionary dead end? |
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| Perfect Corpse, The Forensic investigators tease secrets from the well-preserved bodies of people buried long ago in peat bogs. |
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| Pocahontas Revealed Archeologists uncover the reality behind a great American myth. |
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| Pyramids—The Inside Story Wander through the chambers and passageways of the Great Pyramid and learn about the pyramid builders. |
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| Search for the Lost Cave People Caves lining a rugged canyon deep in the Chiapas jungle hold clues to the little known Zoque people. |
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| Secrets of Easter Island A team attempts to recreate the original islanders' success at moving and erecting giant moai statues. |
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| Secrets of Lost Empires II: China Bridge Two teams working from opposite sides of a turbulent river attempt to build a 12th-century Chinese bridge. |
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| Secrets of Lost Empires II: Easter Island How did the ancient Easter Islanders move and erect giant stone statues? Our team tests one theory. |
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| Secrets of Lost Empires II: Medieval Siege Two teams set out to build precise replicas of a fearsome medieval weapon—the trebuchet. |
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| Secrets of Lost Empires II: Pharaoh's Obelisk Experts take on the challenge of raising a 40-ton obelisk without using modern technology. |
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| Secrets of Lost Empires II: Roman Bath NOVA sets out to create a working Roman bath, complete with hot tubs and underfloor heating. |
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| Sultan's Lost Treasure Archeologists salvage more than 12,000 pieces of Chinese porcelain from an ancient shipwreck. |
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| Treasures of the Sunken City Divers search the seafloor for one of the seven wonders of the ancient world: the Lighthouse of Alexandria. |
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| Vikings, The Recent discoveries paint a complex portrait of the Vikings and their boat journeys to places as far-flung as Istanbul. |
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| Warriors of the Amazon Explore the unique culture of the Yanomami, an isolated tribe living deep in the Amazonian rainforest. |
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