Around The World In 80 Treasures

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  • BBC Two
  • Documentary

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Peru to Brazil
Episode overview
In Peru Dan visits Machu Picchu, the last Inca capital after the Spanish Conquista (colonisation); the Inca salt pans; the Nazca Lines, traced by a mysterious civilization on a huge .. show full overview
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Mexico to America
Episode overview
In Mexico, Dan Cruickshank visits the Mayan city of Paleque, the Toltecs' Giants of (Tollan) Tula and the painting 'Man, Controller of the Universe' in Mexico city. Next Dan is in North .. show full overview
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Australia to Cambodia
Episode overview
In Australia Dan visits St James' Church in Sydney and aboriginal Kakadu rock art. He continues through Indonesia, visiting Spirit houses and tau-tau in Torajaland, on Sulawesi island, .. show full overview
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Japan to China
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In Japan Dan admires the Katana samurai sword in Tokyo, Himeji Castle and Ryan-ji Zen Buddhist Garden at Kyoto before traveling to China where he visits the Forbidden City and Summer .. show full overview
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India to Sri Lanka
Episode overview
First Dan Cruickshank visits India: durga at Kolkata, the traded spices of the port-city Cochin, the Meenakshi temple at Madurai, the Jantar Mantar astronomical observatory in Jaipur and .. show full overview
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Uzbekistan to Syria
Episode overview
In the Central-Asian (former Soviet) republic of Uzbekistan, Dan Cruickshank admires tiles of Samarkand and trading domes in Bukhara, then travels trough Azerbaijan, visiting the Fire .. show full overview
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Jordan to Ethiopia
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In Jordan, Dan visits the rock-carved Nabataean capital Petra and the Madaba Map, then travels via the Jerusalem Temple Mount to Ethiopia, to visit imperial Abessynia's Coptic monuments: .. show full overview
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Mali to Egypt
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In The West-African land-locked Sahel country Mali, Dan visits the Great Mosque of Djenna and at Sanga the Dogon tribe's rock paintings and a ceremonial dance mask. The journey continues .. show full overview
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Turkey to Germany
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In Turkey Dan visits the Derinkuyu underground city carved into the rocks in Cappadocia and the Hagia Sophia (former Byzantine monster cathedral, now a mosque) in Istanbul. In Russia the .. show full overview
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Bosnia to France and Home
Episode overview
In this final episode, Dan returns home via Bosnia, where he visit the Ottoman (Turkish empire) Stari-most bridge in Mostar, then Greece - the Parthenon in Athens, Italy where he admires .. show full overview

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